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.
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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.
It’s also about search engine indexing. It’s happening slowly, but I’ve noticed Lemmy posts are finally beginning to show up in Google/Bing search results. As this trend improves, more people will stumble here by accident and then join out of curiosity.
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.
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
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!
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.
Don’t call me bro, pal!
Don’t call me pal, friend!
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.
So hope e creater of RIF creates LIF.
How tf did you make your name like that???
On the website your can change display name and I used a random fancy text generator I found in Google. Some are compatible, some are not.
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
When is the last time you used it? It was like that a while back but recent updates have my experience near flawless.
Try Summit, it’s really good
I’m using liftoff which is very nice. I tried out pretty much all the apps and I like this one the most. The interface is the nicest and it has gestures like Infinity where I came from.
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.
Also here because Sync is dead. Desperately awaiting your Sync for Lemmy release. Was considering making a Sync-like Lemmy app if you didn’t…
Reddit is 100% bot driven
Reddit is spam driven. But people can also spam manually.
I’m super excited for all the development here. I’m looking forward for Boost for Lemmy, but I’m also really enjoying wefwef (soon to be Voyager) and the active development is really exciting to me.
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 think there’s a decent chance it will. At the bare minimum, it already feels much better to me than voat ever did.
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 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.
Let’s not look back on reddit with rose tinted glasses.
Much of it was always a dumpster fire.
Yep, I agree. I miss those days of Reddit
Same here.
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.
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.
Yeah some topics are a bit tough with loads of communities spread across different instances/servers. But overall it’s alright.
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!
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 😅
NVM.
I’m doing my part. I had two posts on Reddit. One was superniche and got 30ish points. Whatever, I was happy. It had useful info for the other people on the sub. Then I posted something to the broader community and got two downvotes in like 1 second, killing it. How did they even look at it? I think someone was sitting there gleefully downvoting every fucking thing. I never posted again.
I’ve been here since mid June and have made 264 posts, like WTF. I’m having more fun here than I ever did on Reddit and I don’t get that sick feeling I used to get from seeing all the outrage posts and mean comments (to everyone, not just me).
Loving Lemmy.
I’ve been here since mid June and have made 264 posts,
I have almost 300 comments over three weeks now. I actually had Lemmy bookmarked for some time, but started participating after giving Reddit the punt. That’s way higher post frequency than before. Yeah it’s great feeling like you can say reasonable stuff without coming under attack.
Exactly! Things like “Hitler did nothing wrong”
Niceness fosters niceness. Glad we have a bunch of like-minded folk.
I know what you mean within seconds my post would be downvoted. Its either a downvote bot or a rude moderator. Lemmy is a breath of fresh air.
You’re doing an incredible job. Keep going :).
You too, random citizen!
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?
ah, the poscard sized videos of the RE:RE:RE
Leaving a comment to say I was here in the making of internet 3.0
I like that! Nice to see people “voting with their feet” as they leave Reddit.
Good idea! Here’s my comment to do the same.
Let’s hope it’s true.
Samesies!!
Great! I was a bit sceptical about the new users grow in the past weeks, but I think this information is more reliable
You can tell there are more users by the number of the top up voted threads. Some are in the 1000s votes and a lot in the 100s. Wasn’t that high before.
And the comment threads! You can find posts with multiple comment threads usually several comments deep!
It’s really starting to feel like a legitimately good Reddit alternative around here, not just “Reddit like” or “Reddit light” and that’s really awesome 😊
The change has been super pronounced in the last week or so. The meme quality has almost gone too damn high. All the news subs / pol subs / game subs I subscribed to on reddit are showing up here which makes the switch easy.
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Also, check out the communities page on lemmy.world. A couple of weeks ago, the biggest communities had 1-2k subscribers and now many are over
10k20k.
So much of that steep was beans lmao
Bean posting
We did it Lemmy! We’ve reached an arbitrary number of posts.
To the next numerically observable milestone! 🚀
And beyond!
You did it!
This is posts per day? The image makes it seem like so, the title not so much. 1 million posts per day and growing is a huge thing if so
Looks like the title is incorrect, and it’s actually posts per day. At least, the graph shows a few days where the number goes down, so it can’t be just the total number of posts (unless there was a wave of deletions outpacing the posts).
Edit: according to other people’s comments, it is actually total posts, not posts per day. So my above comment seems to be incorrect.
The dips in the graph could be caused by some of the servers/instances going offline, post deletions, or a combination of both.
It’s total
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I think it’s total posts. If you look at the list of instances and posts at the bottom it matches closer to total posts:
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
It’s still epic and growing both in quality and activity, but it’s still got a long way to grow. I feel optimistic. :)
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
