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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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[–] BlueDepth9279@lemmy.world 481 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 315 points 1 year ago (16 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.

[–] BlueDepth9279@lemmy.world 156 points 1 year ago (13 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.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 85 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.

[–] eu@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 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!

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[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (6 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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[–] Doherz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The beans phase had me doubting the quality part for sure.

[–] jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I assure you, the beans are of the highest quality.

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[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

This comment is so good it has -1 downvotes

[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] SharkyPants@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just don't post links. I tested it myself and they will shadow remove your comment.

[–] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

For real? Damn they are that desperate.

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[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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!

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I literally only tried Lemmy because of the RIF goodbye message. I'm here because for me, Reddit was Reddit Is Fun.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All. My. Homies. Hate. Spez.

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[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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[–] Djangofett@lemmy.ca 90 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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!

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[–] revs@feddit.uk 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like when I browse All I still just see the same 20 posts

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The default "Active" sort option does that. Try "Hot" instead.

[–] LeadSoldier@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you. I have so many engrained habits from Reddit that I'm not using Lemmy to its potential.

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[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] NotNotNathan@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just joined. Can't wait for Boost for Lemmy

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[–] Drahcir_Rekattih@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We did it Lemmy! We've reached an arbitrary number of posts.

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To the next numerically observable milestone! 🚀

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[–] Popsip@pawb.social 42 points 1 year ago

It's been really cool witnessing the activity of this place grow.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 42 points 1 year ago

We all can be very proud.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] dub@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] baldissara@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] Cryst@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] KeisukeTakatou@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Leaving a comment to say I was here in the making of internet 3.0

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[–] blueskiesoc@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (23 children)

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.

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[–] iscratchbacks@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Finally made the switch, looking forward to doom scrolling here :)

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[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy feels like Reddit 10-15 years ago, which is great.

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[–] DangitJohnson@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Invest! Invest! Oh wait, I’m glad that’s not the point here ;)

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

THIS. IS. SOCIALISM!

As social networking should be.

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[–] Eww@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really glad I get to witness history in the making. This is definitely the future and stoked to see it growing so quickly.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What happened June 21st? It's the first exponential growth and it's also when I made my account, but I don't remember what was the trigger to finally make an account.

Edit: I think it's when they started trying to force subreddits back open: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14ffsk8/reddit_is_a_bully/

[–] SugarSnack@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just 2 days after iamthatis exposed Reddit's bullshit about Apollo

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[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Holy fucking shit that's insane. What's wild is, if I understand it correctly, that's basically linear with how many users have joined, meaning people are posting more than ever before (on a per user basis).

[–] ComptitiveSubset@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (16 children)

It feels like it is possible to have a conversation here. In Reddit I felt like my comments were getting buried

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[–] thedemon44@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] Doesnotexist@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did my part. Made a post here, never did on reddit in ten years.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wow, over 4K. This might be the most upvoted post yet.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it's because of beans, but it's probably because of beans.

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