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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] 367 points 1 year ago (11 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] 171 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] 95 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] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 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] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never noticed that. Do any apps feature it too?

[–] [email protected] 13 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thunder does, but the body text is not automatically copied like in the web interface.

[–] [email protected] 42 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] 19 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (8 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] 17 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] 16 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.

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

I'm part of things

[–] [email protected] 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same. The White Sox community right now is just a bot posting game results.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 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] 3 points 1 year ago

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).

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

Reddit is still unrivaled for sports content unfortunately. I’m have to scrounge around and am considering moving back to RealGM shudders

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 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. 😊

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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.

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

Totally agree, I don't mean to demean the memes.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They bean that the beans weren't serious discussion...beans.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 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] 5 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] 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The memes has been high quality though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The memes were entertaining and it was content to attract users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i posted like 10 per year on reddit and did around 30+ within a week on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I actually blocked all the meme and shitpost communities because they were flooding my all feed and they aren't that interesting to me.

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

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.

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

If you liked Sync, you should try Thunder.