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Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!

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[-] Machefi@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I didn't believe this would happen. I thought all who wanted to migrate have done this already and there would be maybe a couple hundred people joining us today. I'm glad I was wrong. Gives me hope in people of the Internet standing up for what they deserve.

[-] Vathsade@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

What a great perspective -- let the good times roll!

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