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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.
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, sorry.
Thunder does, but the body text is not automatically copied like in the web interface.
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.
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.
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.
I’m part of things
There’s a whole https://fanaticus.social/ instance for sports
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.
Same. The White Sox community right now is just a bot posting game results.
Shameless plug for [email protected] (check out our sidebar for the team-specific communities). We’ve got the game bots ported over and are working on improving them and adding new features.
I agree with [email protected] though, the Venn diagram of sports fans and tech-savvy lemmy pioneers is pretty small. You can help by posting and commenting to attract more users. More content == more users (eventually).
We can just talk about Americas team then. That’ll unify everything, right? 😉
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. 😆
Reddit is still unrivaled for sports content unfortunately. I’m have to scrounge around and am considering moving back to RealGM shudders
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?
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.
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.
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.
What do you bean?
They bean that the beans weren’t serious discussion…beans.
The memes has been high quality though
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!
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.
The memes were entertaining and it was content to attract users.
i posted like 10 per year on reddit and did around 30+ within a week on lemmy
We’ve had a good balance the past couple days. I like both.
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.
I actually blocked all the meme and shitpost communities because they were flooding my all feed and they aren’t that interesting to me.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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!
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.
My shock. Its palpable.
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Just joined. Can’t wait for Boost for Lemmy
We did it Lemmy! We’ve reached an arbitrary number of posts.
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.
Here for posterity! Onwards and upwards lemmy!
Samesies!!
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…
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.
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.
Liftoff seems like the best one for now, until Sync and Boost come out and duke it out for the top spot.
I actually prefer Jerboa when it works honestly, but it’s still too unstable to use.
/c/beetlejuicing
I love how active you are as a developer in the community.
I did. I’m excitedly waiting!
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…
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.
Reddit is 100% bot driven
Reddit is spam driven. But people can also spam manually.
It’s been really cool witnessing the activity of this place grow.
Lemmy feels like Reddit 10-15 years ago, which is great.
Finally made the switch, looking forward to doom scrolling here :)
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”
You’re doing an incredible job. Keep going :).
You too, random citizen!
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.
People still are arguing for downvotes here on Lemmy. I think they are poison to a good community. They are not helping to moderate - they are silencing opinions and creating echo chambers.
I was a bit baffled by your post because it seemed odd, but it’s the second time today I’ve encountered someone mentioning it. It appears that lemmy.today is a no-dv instance; I presume it’s a server switch option. The rest of the instances I’m on all have up/down voting, and kbin, of course, has boost/up/down. Not that there’s anything wrong with it but, just so you know, it’s a feature of your instance and not lemmy-wide.
Yup its configured on each instance in the admin settings.
My philosophy on downvotes:
If I don’t agree with someone here, I upvote anyway. Not because I’m a Pollyanna, but because I’m happy they’re here and supporting Lemmy by posting and commenting. I really want Lemmy to stay up and stable for a long time and provide what Reddit used to provide for the wider community. Reddit still does, but hopefully we can too. I’m talking about political and health issues.
If it’s a mean comment, I do nothing and move on.
If something is just messed up, that’s a message for the mods. I’ve messaged once so far. Someone posted information about a person (image and real-life contact info) and said they were performing cosmetic surgery on puppies. The image was of the person flipping the bird, so it was clearly made as a hit piece. Mods got rid of it within a day.
For me while scrolling through a threat I upvote those that I agree with and leave alone those that I disagree, unless it’s done in an asshole kind of way which I kind of despise.
But if I make a post I do tend to upvote everyone which I kind of justify as “rewarding” people for interacting with me.
I follow a similar philosophy, except I do downvote the mean but not rule breaking content. While it’s not bad enough to justify removal, I do still want to discourage people being mean on this platform. For most disagreeable opinions, I’ll either move on or reply with my point of view.
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As Reddit has proven, this is not how the masses use downvotes. I have seen unpopular, but harmless opinions be downvoted.
I have seen people getting downvoted heavily by saying they don’t like x game. That creates echo chambers.
Yeah the issue is that the upvote/downvote binary is used for more than just (good contribution)/(bad contribution).
Back when Reddit was small enough to have community values, reddiquette was taken semi-seriously. But with the push for more users over the past 5-7 years, that’s all gone out the window.
I’ve thought a bit about how that issue could be fixed in a way that still allows content to be rated by usefulness democratically, and I’m pretty convinced that for that to happen, there would need to be an upvote/downvote and an agree/disagree.
Order content by vote delta, but display the agree/disagree counts on the content.
Would be interesting to be able to see content that makes good arguments but that is largely disagreed with instead of having that content disappear at the bottom of the page.
various reaction choices seems to be a better communicator… like on linkedin. i’d rather flag something as interesting or funny or ugh…
Yeah, and that would give people an outlet for when they want to express how they feel about some content without having to muddy the default prioritize/deprioritize-based sorting.
Different people see the meaning of downvote in a different way. I don’t always use it negatively. I think of it now as voting in general terms. Sometimes I do use it because I strongly dislike the comment. I guess maybe we need 2 different downvote options lol
Like two different car horns.
One for, “Hey, I’m over here. Don’t hit me.” And one for, “HEY, I’M OVER HERE! DON’T HIT ME!”
Maybe, but it didn’t help with youtube. I’m giving a respectful downvote to you because I think I disagree
Sure go ahead. :)
I miss when downvote was a “this doesn’t contribute to discussion” button, not a “disagree” button.
I think they theoretically can be used well, and I’ve tried to be more reserved in how I use them here on Lemmy, but I agree often times they can become culturally toxic. I’m glad Lemmy has a better culture so far, we’re really building something great here I think.
Invest! Invest! Oh wait, I’m glad that’s not the point here ;)
I’m not saying it’s because of beans, but it’s probably because of beans.
