Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Fyi the sluggishness is because you’ve signed up on lemmy.world, smaller instances don’t have this scaling issue :)

    • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Can confirm. Lemmy.world communities work perfectly from other instances. The one I’m on was setup to be scalable and very quick.