I finally decided to make an account after a week of ignoring Reddit, what is going on over there is ridiculous at this point, Reddit should have just given 3rd party apps an exception and called it a day.

[–] Aldrond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Welcome!

[–] ObligatoryOption@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's snowballing. A few friends tell a few friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...

[–] beunice@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Kbin is up from 2k users last week to 40k users.

[–] herzberd@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's hexbear joining back into mainline lemmy

[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it not because of hexbear deforking?

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit crashing and burning

[–] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

[–] Tigerfishy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] GammaScorpii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Been signing up to reddit alts all week. Finally got to Lemmy.

[–] Hyrulian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same actually. What all have you signed up for? I've only signed up for Lemmy and kbin so far.

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[–] cura@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] tj111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that subreddit existed. Thanks!

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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