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What caused the massive exodus to lemmy.ml? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OrakMoya@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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What caused users to sign up to specifically lemmy.ml, instead of other servers? I am aware a lot of users signed up after the spez AMA, but even before the AMA the site was overloaded.

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[–] CaptainLemmit@feddit.it 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I joined before the AMA, but not on lemmy.ml. Frankly, my first temptation was to ignore the overload warning for fear of missing something by joining another instance. Fortunately I spent more than two minutes figuring out how it works and decided otherwise, but that might be the reasoning behind other people's choice

[–] PeefJerky@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Frankly, my first temptation was to ignore the overload warning for fear of missing something by joining another instance.

I think many non tech savvy users won’t understand how Lemmy works and just give up trying to understand how to signup. Plus some instances have a form and users are waitlisted. I think that’s the biggest con of Lemmy.

[–] V4uban@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

It seems that the last point has been solved a few days ago by unlisting Beehaw and Lemmy.ml from suggested instances on join-lemmy.org

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