• BlueDepth9279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4351·
    3 年前

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

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      601·
      3 年前

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

      • BlueDepth9279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        3 年前

        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.

        • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          3 年前

          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.

          • eu@kbin.social
            5·
            3 年前

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

            • grte@lemmy.ca
              5·
              3 年前

              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.

                • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
                  3·
                  2 年前

                  On Eternity, I have the three dot menu above posts that has ‘Crosspost’ as an option.

                  Screenshot_20240610-115021_Eternity_1_1

                  Edit: Didn’t realise this was an year old comment, sorry.

                • grte@lemmy.ca
                  1·
                  3 年前

                  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.

        • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 年前

          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!

          • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 年前

            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.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                3 年前

                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.

          • Zippy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            And if it is still going in Reddit, make a post and link that it is now in Lemmy.

        • NAS89@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          3 年前

          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.

          • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 年前

            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.

          • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            Shameless plug for !baseball@fanaticus.social (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 !matt@lemmy.world 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).

          • Bushwhack@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            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.

            • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 年前

              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.

          • cerevant@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            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.

            • Disgustoid@startrek.websiteEnglish
              0·
              3 年前

              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. 😆

      • Thwompthwomp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 年前

        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. 😊

        • whereisk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          3 年前

          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.

          • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            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?

            • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 年前

              I’m on Lemmy.world as I assume we all are

              We’re not! :)

              I’m on sh.itjust.works, others might be on lemm.ee, lemmy.zip, feddit.uk, etc., but we can all interact with each other. That’s one of the benefits of the fediverse.

            • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 年前

              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.

            • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
              1·
              3 年前

              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.

    • Saneless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      3 年前

      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.

    • Bushwhack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      3 年前

      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.

      • trambe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 年前

        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

      • Today@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 年前

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

  • SharkyPants@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1011·
    3 年前

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

      • Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 年前

        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.

  • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    3 年前

    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!

  • dub@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    3 年前

    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

    • cptgonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 年前

      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.

      • Frog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 年前

        Yeah some topics are a bit tough with loads of communities spread across different instances/servers. But overall it’s alright.

    • Joe B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 年前

      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!

  • blueskiesoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    3 年前

    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.

    • acrobaticpenguin23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      3 年前

      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.

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      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.

  • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    3 年前

    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

    • Futurama@lemmy.worldEnglish
      241·
      3 年前

      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.

      • Paulius@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        8·
        3 年前

        The dips in the graph could be caused by some of the servers/instances going offline, post deletions, or a combination of both.

  • baldissara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    3 年前

    Great! I was a bit sceptical about the new users grow in the past weeks, but I think this information is more reliable

      • walkabout@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        Nonsense, Lemmy’s come a long way. We used to be hung up complaining about Reddit… but now we complain about Facebook.

    • Cryst@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 年前

      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.

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 年前

        And the comment threads! You can find posts with multiple comment threads usually several comments deep!

        • Dark Arc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 年前

          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 😊

          • ButtermilkBiscuit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            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.

  • thedemon44@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 年前

    Well count me in. It took me two weeks to successfully create an account, but it finally didn’t crap out on me.

    Maybe this is the good thing. Let Reddit stay filled with the lowest common denominator and divisive politics. Making Lemmy a little more hassle than the common user wants to experience to get into might be the only thing that keeps it from becoming the ban heavy echo chamber Reddit is.

    • Falafels@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 年前

      It’s funny, because it’s not even a very hard barrier of entry to overcome, just takes some patience, but it’s apparently enough to keep a lot of low effort content out.

      • thedemon44@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        If people didn’t choose the easy route when given the option, North America would not be suffering from an obesity epidemic. Why make something healthy and time consuming when fast food is so conveniently available?