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Meanwhile, Threadiverse is on the verge of reaching 100k active monthly accounts.
Of course, the numbers are incomparable. But this whole thing made Threadiverse into a viable space for a lot of people. Reddit app developers are starting to develop apps for Lemmy/Kbin. Dozens of new instances got set up. The whole space is bigger, more resilient, and leaps and bounds more vibrant than it was in May and before (I've been here for years).
A lot of people will come back to Reddit. But a lot of people will also remain here. And this space will be there the next time Reddit craps the bed, better prepared to take the influx.
Lemmy dev has also gotten like 500% more donation pledges per month. He’s up to $1300/mo now i think. Fediverse projects can certainly use cash.
And we'll be ready for it!
Speaking of app developers, has anyone heard anything about a Beehaw app? I haven't seen it brought up yet
You can just log in to beehaw with any Lemmy app
Oh thanks, I never looked at Lemmy before had no idea lol
As others have said, you can log in using any general Lemmy app. However, you can also use specifically Beehaw (or any Lemmy instance like sh.it or world) as a Progressive Web App (PWA).
If you're on iOS, go to the site on Safari (other browsers don't work) and in the browser options select "Add to Home Screen". The page from Safari will appear on your home screen like any other app. Not sure how it works on Android but I imagine the process is similar and involves using Chrome.
Navigating it is easy enough, tap posts to load them and swipe left-to-right to go back one "layer". You do need to make a PWA for every Lemmy instance you use, however. If you use a standard app, you can use the one app for all your instances. I haven't found a good app on iOS yet, so PWA it is for me!
This is also how I got over the urge to go on Reddit. I simply replaced Apollo with Beehaw's PWA so if I feel the Reddit urge, I end up on Beehaw instead.