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Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

We all need to post this on reddit. Spread the word that this platform is booming and more people will come over!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The jump in posts over the last month is incredible. I find Lemmy quickly replacing Reddit which is great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This comment is so good it has -1 downvotes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I quit Reddit cold turkey. I miss sports talk and some of the gaming and workout subreddits though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same. Last night i went in and deleted all of my subscriptions except for the 3 i really want to keep checking in on.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not just number but quality. It was all memes at the start, now actual conversation is happening in more than just a few posts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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. 😊

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

We’ve had a good balance the past couple days. I like both.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we have bean through a phase, but we are moving into more mature content in a brisket

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm making a brisket today. No beans. Is there s good cooking community? Or grilling/smoking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe [email protected] ? I think I linked the community right. If not, sorry I hope you get the jist.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can just talk about Americas team then. That’ll unify everything, right? 😉

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was lamenting the lack of an NFL community here but no way in hell I'm joining a Dallas Cowboys community regardless of how much discussion it generates. 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a whole https://fanaticus.social/ instance for sports

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking of sharing content, is there a way to crosspost around here yet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never noticed that. Do any apps feature it too?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We all can be very proud.

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