"Scheduled downtime: 17th June, 9am CDT/2pm UTC" on Hexbear
www.hexbear.net
"We are planning on doing the final site migration to upstream Lemmy this Saturday. We are currently unsure exactly how long we need for the entire process. Our estimate is around **12 hours** of total downtime; we'll update this post when we have a more accurate estimate. Hexbear will be inaccessible during this time. For updates on progress on the day, please follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chapo_chat Whilst we'll gain the ability to federate with other Lemmy & Mastodon instances, **federation will initially be disabled**. More on this in future posts. --- We expect to encounter a few more UX-related bugs after the relaunch that will require more work, so if you are open to volunteering a bit, we are looking for **frontend developers** who can help figure out and fix some of those UX issues. If you think you can help, please send me a message on Element ([@layla:chapo.chat](https://matrix.to/#/@layla:chapo.chat)) . Finally, none of this is possible without your continued support! If you enjoy the site, please consider donating via our [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/hexbear) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/hexbear) :hexbear-retro: "

It’s happening, folks

  • ImOnADiet
    19·
    1 year ago

    It’s already there, lemmy.world alone is taking us over 2k daily users

      • ImOnADiet
        26·
        1 year ago

        vast majority of it is from the reddit thing. It had nice slow growth the last year but it exploded the last couple weeks

          • ImOnADiet
            25·
            1 year ago

            tbh I thought they might get bored and leave soon too, but it’s honestly starting to reach the point where we’re starting to see actual network effects popping up, I honestly think most of these new users will stay.

            And I have the same hope about hexbear lol

          • OrnluWolfjarl
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well it seems reddit admins stepped in, removed the mods of the blackout subs and reopened them. This pissed off a lot of people.

            • Ergifruit [he/they]
              2·
              1 year ago

              and now half the posts on Reddit are gonna be low effort garbage and bots. which is exactly what it deserves, but it’s still a bummer for the niche subreddits.

      • Fidel's Toothbrush
        12·
        1 year ago

        It’s definitely from the Reddit exodus. I made my account around the time GZD got quarantained, but did not do much with it because TheDeprogram got big. Now Reddit really fucked up and most 3rd party app users are jumping ship, myself included.