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this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2026
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People say stuff like this all the time. History tells us that will not happen. There was a sitewide protest when they killed the API but no one left. History tells us there is fucking nothing these social media corporations can do to get people to leave. Because they have tried over and over again in recent years and it always fails. Maybe 1% finds somewhere else to spend their time.
E: you people need to familiarize yourself with the concept of hyperbole. I wasn't looking for your anecdotes.
Before the API protest, Lemmy had less than 1000 Monthly Active Users. Right after the protests, it shot up to just under 70,000 and then settled down to around 38,000 users. It currently has around 31,000 Monthly Active Users with another 7,000 between Piefed and Mbin.
then:
now: https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy
Waving from PieFed!
I feel like someone needs to create a bot farm to advertise Lemmy all over Reddit. Not specific instances, just Lemmy as an alternative. What’s one more bot spamming the site.
Oh well only a hundred million to go!
A lot of us don't want to be in a community with millions of people. Some people like stadiums, other people like cafes.
Well then why are we having this conversation?
I literally left when they killed the API.
Me too. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
One more here!
Same :) At first I just wanted to have an alternative to Reddit. More like a backup in case it gets worse. Then I realized that I was browsing Lemmy more often so I deleted my Reddit account and here we are. I'm the first generation who was on facebook. Then our parents joined and we moved to Twitter. After Musk ruined that we fled to Reddit and now Lemmy.
I dunno, one of the big reasons that Reddit got big, was Digg shooting themselves in the foot.
How do we know for sure? The site is infested with bots that may create traffic to compensate the activity by the actual human users, who fleed their service. Afaik even spaz confirmed that most of the traffic on Reddit is generated by bots.
More recently, I've seen tons of comments about Proton that seemed like numerous copies of the same idea shared with less than one minute intervals. It detinitely felt suspicious when reading similar ideas time and time again.
Because despite what everyone says, bots are still very easy to spot, and aren't capable of creating the type of high quality submissions that keeps users there. And because I talk to people IRL every day that still use it. I'm yet to meet anyone in person who knows what the fediverse is.
i left
Cool!
Nothing?
I have been on Lemmy for years after they blocked apps.
It is called getting a spine and sticking to their principles.
I lost sympathy for those that keep persisting with that shit hole for all kinds of excuses.
I’m no one important and I left. I think a lot of people are fed up with being monetized at every turn.
If there really are more bots than real people participating as others claim, then the real people are going somewhere. Maybe they will stumble in here.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Dozen thousands?
That is not true. I made a Lemmy account around the time they started fucking with the API, if I remember correctly. I wasn't that active here because I felt like the content was very limited and the people too radical.
Now that my Reddit account has been restricted because "you need to verify your age" 🤡 Not just NSFW stuff restricted, the whole site is restricted for my account. Can't even access my account settings anymore. (I really should figure something out but alas I care too little).
That's why I have become more active here. No other options.