probably because reddit just broke the api clients again (including their own app).
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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Beside what is said, sometimes Lemmy appears in search results. It's a factor of growth.
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I was word of mouthed here yesterday. As someone interested in self hosting and open source i might be the target audience sure, but I am here due to recent news and such
Fuck reddit.
Feeding user data to an LLM. Jacking up API costs. Being generally unusable on mobile. Usurping old.reddit.com to try and force me to the official app on “unmoderated” and NSFW threads.
Now with their IPO and a need to deliver ever increasing subscriber numbers and improved metrics for shareholders every quarter, the writing is on the wall.
I hope it goes to zero. The only sad thing is all the knowledge that will be lost due to the sky high API pricing when the site eventually does sunset. I’m guilty myself of trying to de-enshittify google somewhat by adding reddit to just about every search. Hopefully people smarter than me have ways to archive that info.
Welcome here!
I've been using Libreddit and now it's fork RedLib side by side with Lemmy. Haven't had too many problems, does seem to be a good way to access the knowledge you mentioned without specific api use (it runs in docker too) https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
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The enshittification will make the numbers rise eventually
I've been spending my time both here and on Reddit recently, and I've honestly been enjoying it more here. Though I mostly lurk.
What happened on March 3rd? (Mass increase in active users)
Oh man, and what happened on April 3rd? (Mass drop in average comments)
Did I miss a meeting where we decided to just have massive shifts on the 3rd of every month? Is something big happening now, am I missing it?
What happened on March 3rd? (Mass increase in active users)
LW updated to 19.3, which counts votes as activity (before, it was only comments and posts)
I imagine all this activity is due to bots
So many Mastodon server, crazy. The Lemmy experience is so much better than Mastodon, strange that this is the major draw. Is it because of Meta?
Mastodon is much older as a software. Lemmy is still under active development, we aren't even on version 1 yet
One works like a forum, the other is a microblogging platform. Definitely not the same userbase.
I would just guess it's because the Twitter-like format is more popular but that's because I forgot Threads was even a thing.