Welcome, new neighbours!

While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!

A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!

One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, !pottery@lemmy.ca, !pottery@lemm.ee, and !pottery@lemmy.world. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.

If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ distributed network.

hi! glad to be a part here!

I was finally looking to take the plunge away from corporate social medias. I was already using BlueSky as my Twitter/X replacement, and one thing stuck with me that they were doing: Federation. That seemed cool, and look! There is a Reddit replacement that does this "federation" thing. Lemm.ee seemed to line up with my general principles (Im a leftist so i don't want any lefty communities or instances defeded) and i like talking with the community at large, so here i am :D

I've also recommended it to all my friends who enjoy BlueSky and are sick of reddit kowtowing to billionaires interests. Sorry/you're welcome for some of the user rush the last couple of days haha

Lemm-ee is a cool brand too. Good job, Estonia!

Remarkable growth in the past week, and indeed past 3 months. Thank you for providing the stats.

Lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works had been similar in size for most of 2024 (2500-3500 MAUs), but you're now nearly twice our size!

It's really nice to see this kind of growth because it's decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.

Lemm.ee has always been a well-run server with great performance and an excellent admin and it's great to see that new users are choosing an option that will give them the best possible version of what Lemmy can offer.

Signed up last night. With the oversight dumpsterfire that reddit has become, I really hope Lemmy continues to grow at a good clip.

I’m excited to be part of this growing community! The increased censorship of Reddit and breaking away from U.S. services were the biggest reasons for me trying Lemmy out.

Hey! Any idea on why this wave is happening? Also, how does it compare to the initial Reddit “refugee” wave?

Hello everyone. Just joined and getting used to the layout, coming from Reddit not much else.

Are there any keyboard shortcuts for navigation?

Happy to be here, happier to see it grow!

That is a wonderful chart.

Congratulations. Great to see growth :)

For how long I have to wait until I can upload images for a community after my registration? Thx