Reddit's meltdown
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option
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Pretty sure it's hexbear joining back into mainline lemmy
Could it be because r/ModCoord recommended moving to kbin, lemmy etc.?
Oh another theory is that Hexbear started federating. But who are Hexbear?
Seems like it is just bots.
Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.
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I'm curious if other kbin will see a similar increase, although since we're federated with Lemmy it doesn't really matter as much to me so long as the Fediverse is gaining traction which is hopefully what is happening here after the Reddit fallout.
Kbin is up from 2k users last week to 40k users.
Probably a significant number of bots tbh.
As much as I'd love to think that it's all users, the reality is that it was partially bots.
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There was also just a huge dump of mods off some big subs, and a post about it on Lemmy with a link...I had been thinking about coming here specifically when I left Reddit, and the mod dump coupled with the link was the perfect opportunity, probably not just for me
Also yay, my first ever comment on my new news platform
Everyone figuring out /u/spez is full of shit
I'm surprised they haven't banned the Apollo dev.
Reddit crashing and burning
I use RIF exclusively on mobile. I never use reddit from my computer. The interface isn't all that different from RIF when on mobile, so I'm giving it a shot. Lots of the other places listed as "reddit alternatives" were mostly just discussion and not community focused and link sharing sites. I like it so far. (my first post!)
gaining critical mass?
I'm attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I'm checking things out.