Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.
We all need to post this on reddit. Spread the word that this platform is booming and more people will come over!
Went to /all -> top post of all -> end up here
Love to see it
just keep making lemmy like sites better as reddit keeps getting shittier. i do hope reddit keeps making reddit worse.
The jump in posts over the last month is incredible. I find Lemmy quickly replacing Reddit which is great.
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.
Not just number but quality. It was all memes at the start, now actual conversation is happening in more than just a few posts.
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 [email protected] ? I think I linked the community right. If not, sorry I hope you get the jist.
Thanks!
The beans phase had me doubting the quality part for sure.
I assure you, the beans are of the highest quality.
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?
Thunder does, but the body text is not automatically copied like in the web interface.
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.
On Eternity, I have the three dot menu above posts that has ‘Crosspost’ as an option.
Edit: Didn’t realise this was an year old comment.
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!
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.
Sports is definitely hard to have take off in these sorts of spaces, since sports are generally talked about much more amongst regular/casual users, than the more tech-savvy crowd who are willing to try these things out.
It’s the same on the biggest ActivityPub platform (Mastodon) - the really popular regular subjects such as sports and cars just don’t have a presence there.
Phillies fan checking in. Agree. I have a community with a bot that posts game updates like Reddit (which is nice) but the game threads are mainly me posting once or twice and one or two other people with side off comments. No community engagement so to speak. Long way from the Reddit game threads of several thousand comments.
Feel your pain. I’m constantly thinking, what the hell do I have to do to get r/orioles to follow me over to Lemmy to grow the numbers? They are one of the only things left at Reddit that I regularly look at. But 99% of the mod and user base there just doesn’t care about the the issue.
Conversely, that means that at least sports spaces are among the least bot-spammed places on Reddit. So there’s that.
The memes has been high quality though
We’ve had a good balance the past couple days. I like both.
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.
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.
I quit Reddit cold turkey. I miss sports talk and some of the gaming and workout subreddits though.
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Still seeing the lil dip when all the apps went dark. Everyone went to say goodbye…🥺🥺🥺
I could almost cry 😢 Toothpicks and rubber bands, your just like me, Lemmy.
It’s been really cool witnessing the activity of this place grow.
Leaving a comment to say I was here in the making of internet 3.0
We done did it, doin it out here, big things, wildin, etc… Seriously though, I’m happy to be a part of this as a recent redditfugee. I’m never going back. I miss r/emo, I miss r/oneyplays, I miss r/twosentencehorror, I miss all my saved posts and threads, but I’m not fucking around with Reddit on principle, and also as everyone here has been so kind and helpful. I was in a community that posted something about Lemmy being founded as an anti-corpo movement and that’s cool as hell and aligns with how I am. So yes yes, I’m all in on exploring and growing this Undiscovered Country
Lemmy feels like Reddit 10-15 years ago, which is great.
Lets gooo!
This is reminiscent of when I was first on Hotmail back in the 90’s. I remember getting an email from the Hotmail team when they first hit a million subscribers… They were bought out by Microsoft within the year… My username is my original Hotmail address.
The days of 20-25 MB of storage 😂
It was plenty back then…
You remember when someone would send you a .wav and you’d go eat dinner while you waited for it to download?
@[email protected] Does it only count Lemmy’s posts, or does it include other compatible plateforms, such as Mbin?
Looks like just posts from Lemmy instances. Now, are replies posts? I don’t think so, I think it’s original topics. But many replies from Lemmy users are going to be to outside sources, so there’s a lot going on!
We did it Lemmy! We’ve reached an arbitrary number of posts.
Check this out @[email protected]