I mentioned yesterday that a Lemmy dev was busy plugging Lemmy in the Apollo thread about :reddit-logo:'s API pricing. The reddit admins r/apolloapp mods went and deleted 118 of their 120 comments:

As you can see on Lemmy dev parentis_shotgun's profile, they were very active plugging Lemmy and answering questions in the Apolo dev's thread about Reddit's API pricing, with 120 total comments made in that post.

They were well-received, with 3 of their comments getting over 400 upvotes. However, reddit admins r/apolloapp mods must have noticed that reddit is bleeding users to Lemmy, because all but 2 of parentis_shotgun's 120 comments (one about Beehaw and one about Microsoft) in that thread are removed.

:reddit-logo: knows its days are numbered, their IPO later this year will fall flat on its face

Edit: Someone @ImOnADiet on Lemmygrad says it was just r/apolloapp mods
Edit 2: @dessalines posted about it

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    edit-2
    1 year ago

    It's hard to say, they used to count every tab as an active user so at some point we had "thousands" lol. It kinda feels like it's been the same amount, some leave some join.

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Wow, it looks like https://lemmy.ml/ is much more active now. Only 586 users online currently, but there were well over 600 earlier (and Lemmy.ml has passed Lemmygrad on https://join-lemmy.org/instances to take the #1 spot)