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Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] 182 points 3 years ago (24 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.

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  • [–] 102 points 3 years ago* (6 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.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Never noticed that. Do any apps feature it too?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 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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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (11 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.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    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).

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