Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.
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The jump in posts over the last month is incredible. I find Lemmy quickly replacing Reddit which is great.
Not just number but quality. It was all memes at the start, now actual conversation is happening in more than just a few posts.
Good point! I’m hoping for some of the more niche communities to start becoming more active. Things are trending in the right direction though.
They will. My experience community building thus far is that if you can build up one anchor community to the point where people are organically sharing content and commenting, other adjacent communities will start to generate the same sorts of things with smaller subscriber bases because that anchor community is keeping people’s eyes here. Just a question of time.
Speaking of sharing content, is there a way to crosspost around here yet?
Yes, when you make a post look at the line where the ‘save post’ button is at the bottom of the entry. There will be two overlapping squares. That’s the crosspost button.
Never noticed that. Do any apps feature it too?
I’ve only used jerboa but I can’t seem to find a crosspost button. Every app is alpha at best though so I’m sure it will come.
I’m usually a lurker, but I decided to just go ahead and make one that I was missing. Something about personally wanting Lemmy to grow is motivating to me.
I made an XCOM community on Lemmy.world, and even though I’m the only one posting so far, it’s fun to watch the subscriber count grow. Already at 50!
Please definitely don’t be discouraged in the slightest, TPM.
Single-game forums were almost always the smallest gaming subreddits on Reddit, often times being several orders of magnitude smaller than the “gaming in general” communities.
But that special feeling of having other people passionate about that specific game you love can’t be beat. Hang in there, and you’ll definitely grow and get that engagement in time.
Thanks. Fingers crossed!
May I suggest doing an informal poll of some sort to boost engagement? I’m not that familiar with XCOM, but it’s a pretty big series with a lot of games, right? Maybe just a simple “which is your favorite XCOM game?” thread.
And if it is still going in Reddit, make a post and link that it is now in Lemmy.
I’m dying with the lack of baseball communication. The biggest Baseball and Atlanta Braves communities are pretty much dead and I really miss talking ball.
There’s a whole https://fanaticus.social/ instance for sports
The best thing you can do to help is to comment on threads. I know it feels weird to comment in an empty post, but it does tend to spur lurkers to respond.
You need both though. Memes and shitposts to scroll though and chuckle, and then quality stuff to engage on. Lemmys got that, and the momentum will keep it growing.
I tried lemmy like a year or so ago, and it felt so stale. The technology is there, but the content just wasn’t. That’s clearly changed now. 😊
Would be nice if there was a way for posts to be flagged such that memes and shitposts and more serious discussions could be separated, so you could filter depending on mood.
Yep, also an easier way to explore/sign up and filter instances and their different pages. I’m new and have no idea what I’m doing regarding that. So far I’m just signing up to instances and hoping new interesting stuff appears on my page… I’m on Lemmy.world as I assume we all are, how do I view the different pages on this instance or is it all just in a singular feed?
Discoverability is something that could definitely use more work. Right now I recommend the site lemmyverse.net/communities, which is searchable and shows subscriber and active user counts. It should help you find where the most populated communities for your interests are located, if they already exist over here.
Your front page has three feeds. All is just what you’d expect. Local filters to only show posts from your home instance (lemmy.world in your case). I find it’s mostly useful if you’re registered to a smaller instance and want to keep up with local concerns.
Home shows updates for all communities you are subscribed to.
Hit the communities button near the top of the page to subscribe and view. You don’t need to sign up to more instances unless you really want to, we can post on any federated instance. It’s weird at first but you’ll get it.
Totally agree, I don’t mean to demean the memes.
The beans phase had me doubting the quality part for sure.
I assure you, the beans are of the highest quality.
The memes has been high quality though
Totally agree! I just have been a registered reader on Reddit. Now, it’s the first time I’m participating - might be considerably because lemmy is trending. Nevertheless, I found communities and post I’m interested in within minutes - 👌🏼 whereas Reddit was mostly clutter.
BEANS
we have bean through a phase, but we are moving into more mature content in a brisket
I’m making a brisket today. No beans. Is there s good cooking community? Or grilling/smoking?
Maybe !foodporn@lemmy.world ? I think I linked the community right. If not, sorry I hope you get the jist.
Thanks!
We’ve had a good balance the past couple days. I like both.
i posted like 10 per year on reddit and did around 30+ within a week on lemmy
The memes were entertaining and it was content to attract users.
I actually blocked all the meme and shitpost communities because they were flooding my all feed and they aren’t that interesting to me.
I’d also expect another big jump when clients like Sync and Boost get their apps for Lemmy online. That will attract an enormous amount of users from reddit.
If you liked Sync, you should try Thunder.
It just definitely needed to hit a critical mass. Enough that people had enough to read, stick around, and post themselves. Which in turn created a place that new people felt had enough content.
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I thought I was gonna be able to quit Reddit full time. Didn’t look for a few days, then did. Still check since some niche communities aren’t over here (or active) yet so I have to go there. But I only still check every few days (I was a several time a day redditor so usage is down) and I’ll check Lemmy at least once or twice a day now.
Yeah same, most communities i frequent on Reddit haven’t transitioned yet or is still tiny so I kinda juggle between the two apps.
Lemmy is nice for tech and nerdy subreddits but that’s pretty much it rnow
I quit Reddit cold turkey. I miss sports talk and some of the gaming and workout subreddits though.
Same. Last night i went in and deleted all of my subscriptions except for the 3 i really want to keep checking in on.
We all need to post this on reddit. Spread the word that this platform is booming and more people will come over!
Just don’t post links. I tested it myself and they will shadow remove your comment.
For real? Damn they are that desperate.
I posted one yesterday on a major Subreddit. It did get a bit of hate. Couple of people signed up. Some of that hate seems to be bots, complaining that there’s no mobile app, and that it looks like old Reddit.
I’ll keep monitoring, to see if it gets shadow removed. I bet a lot of the major subreddits are running on skeleton crews, so they can’t get everything.
It’s possible they changed their policy. I posted links when the blackout was happening.
It’s insane how well this timeline syncs with reddit’s API bs!
From the very first day spez announced the API changes and steadily increasing until most of the 3pa shut down then BAM. Good for Lemmy and hopefully bad for reddit!
I literally only tried Lemmy because of the RIF goodbye message. I’m here because for me, Reddit was Reddit Is Fun.
All. My. Homies. Hate. Spez.
I may not be your homie, brother, but I do hate Spez.
That’s all you need bro, that’s what makes us family.
So hope e creater of RIF creates LIF.
Same except for me its BoostforReddit.
Hype for Boost for Lemmy
Same here, but for boost. I never heard of Lemmy until boost for Lemmy was announced.
Did somebody say sync…
Bro I CANNOT wait. Sync was the GOAT Reddit app and I know you’ll do great with Lemmy. Glad to see you here.
What are you using now? I’m using Connect for Lemmy and it feels very close to Sync because of gestures. I’ll be torn when Sync comes out because I’m enjoying this so much. (And Connect is Canadian like me. Haha)
Connect kept giving me time-out errors. Switched to Lift-Off and it’s better imo. Will be using it till Sync is out
Sync was reddit for me. Such an amazing app. Now I am glad to be here for the next chapter. Thanks for all you do.
I did. I’m excitedly waiting!
/c/beetlejuicing
I love how active you are as a developer in the community.
Reddit is 100% bot driven
Reddit is spam driven. But people can also spam manually.
I feel like when I browse All I still just see the same 20 posts
The default “Active” sort option does that. Try “Hot” instead.
Thank you. I have so many engrained habits from Reddit that I’m not using Lemmy to its potential.
My favorite is top12 or 6 hour. Feels like Reddit used to.
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Oh, wow! Until now I just assumed that you just need to wait longer to see new stuff, but this actually changes quite a lot. Thanks!
I still don’t get why Lemmy instances don’t default to “Hot”. Kbin does it right by going with “Hot” as default. All “Active” does is dog pile on posts that are almost a day old, sometimes even older than that.
You know what, what’s even the point of “Active” at this point with so many active users?
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I agree. The way “active” is configured probably made sense when there was <1000 active accts bit things have changed.
Try “sexy”
It just show dead threads instead it seems
Hype is real. Feels like this is the place to be. Reddit 2011 vibes with the high quality discussions. It’ll only get better. To the fediverse and beyond!
Reddit user of 12 years here. God I hope this place takes off like Voat was supposed to. Reddit has just changed so damn much. I was honestly sick of the place since before the crazy app meltdown.
I’ve got high hopes for Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general. Voat’s issue was it was a haven for fascists and fascist sympathizers, and a centralized site made that the general vibe. The federated model makes it so they can do what they want in their own little corner of shit, and the rest of us can ignore them like they deserve.
The only issue I have right now is that reddit is a good source of technical answers. Kind of like SE without the dismissive, condescending douchebag attitude that seems to be automatic there. Every single time it sounds like they are replying to someone that is actively bothering them. Like dude, you came on the website, checked the forums, and decided to answer. I didn’t send you a text or some shit.
As one of those long time users… yeah. That’s going to be an issue. So much of my Googling is blah blah blah Reddit
I think there’s a decent chance it will. At the bare minimum, it already feels much better to me than voat ever did.
I wonder what the first topic of Mondays meeting at Reddit HQ will be? And if the overall feeling is gonna be positive or negative? Oh I wonder.
Reddit seems like the type of company where nobody dares to tell the CEO about any negative developments.
Russia of the internet, one might compare.
Speznazi Pootin
Let’s not look back on reddit with rose tinted glasses.
Much of it was always a dumpster fire.
Finally made the switch, looking forward to doom scrolling here :)
ABANDON ALL HOPELESSNESS YE WHO ENTER HERE
Lemmy feels like Reddit 10-15 years ago, which is great.
Yup! As someone with a 16 year old reddit account, I’ve seen it all. This feels like back in the day
The grit of a new community site is what I missed
How many of them are 196 shitposting?
yes
I already have them blocked
I’m still confused to the nth degree, but some of them are funny
Just joined. Can’t wait for Boost for Lemmy
Sameee… I pre-registered to download it soon as it comes out. Once its here it’ll really feel like I never left reddit 😅
I love it here.
(I wonder if they’re getting worried yet.)
Far from that probably. But hopefully they will eventually
We did it Lemmy! We’ve reached an arbitrary number of posts.
To the next numerically observable milestone! 🚀
And beyond!
You did it!
I definitely held out thinking they would change their mind about the API but day finally came and I made a Lemmy account and didn’t look back
I just switched over for good the other day when Boost stopped working and I honestly can’t say I miss it too much. Still working on getting my feed how I’d like it but the more people join the easier it’ll be.
Hey I like you’re name that’s a great idea
I closed my subs on the 12th - Re-opened on the 14th. polled redditors if i should stay shut or open, They said close until reddit backs off. shut it down again. then deleted my account after the first verge article came out about u/spez saying this blackout will pass and everything will be back to normal and some other stuff. i knew then he wouldn’t change!
I’m not saying it’s because of beans, but it’s probably because of beans.
Or the poop withholer
What happened June 21st? It’s the first exponential growth and it’s also when I made my account, but I don’t remember what was the trigger to finally make an account.
Edit: I think it’s when they started trying to force subreddits back open: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14ffsk8/reddit_is_a_bully/
Just 2 days after iamthatis exposed Reddit’s bullshit about Apollo
Literally the reason I ditched my account
Was that also the day Sync for Lemmy was announced?
Wow, over 4K. This might be the most upvoted post yet.
Oh my god the can of beans? Seriously?!
🫘 bean strong 💪
They’re good beans.
I can’t reply over there and I dunno why. Says I must be logged in, but I am :(
