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Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts

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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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.
  
  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. 😊
  
  The beans phase had me doubting the quality part for sure.
  
  BEANS
  
  The memes has been high quality though
  
  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 actually blocked all the meme and shitpost communities because they were flooding my all feed and they aren't that interesting to me.
  
  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.
- This comment is so good it has -1 downvotes
- 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.
  
  I quit Reddit cold turkey. I miss sports talk and some of the gaming and workout subreddits though.
  
  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
  
  Same. Last night i went in and deleted all of my subscriptions except for the 3 i really want to keep checking in on.

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.
  
  My shock. Its palpable.

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.
  
  Same except for me its BoostforReddit.
  
  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???
- Did somebody say sync...
  
  Bro I CANNOT wait. Sync was the GOAT Reddit app and I know you'll do great with Lemmy. Glad to see you here.
  
  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.
  
  /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...
- Reddit is 100% bot driven
  
  Reddit is spam driven. But people can also spam manually.
- 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.

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!

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

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.
- The days of 20-25 MB of storage 😂
  
  It was plenty back then....

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

Just joined. Can't wait for Boost for Lemmy
- Sameee..... I pre-registered to download it soon as it comes out. Once its here it'll really feel like I never left reddit 😅

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"
- 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.
- Niceness fosters niceness. Glad we have a bunch of like-minded folk.
- You're doing an incredible job. Keep going :).
  
  You too, random citizen!
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Maybe, but it didn't help with youtube. I'm giving a respectful downvote to you because I think I disagree

We all can be very proud.

We did it Lemmy! We've reached an arbitrary number of posts.
- To the next numerically observable milestone! 🚀
  
  And beyond!
  
  You did it!

Great! I was a bit sceptical about the new users grow in the past weeks, but I think this information is more reliable
- 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.
  
  And the comment threads! You can find posts with multiple comment threads usually several comments deep!
  
  Also, check out the communities page on lemmy.world. A couple of weeks ago, the biggest communities had 1-2k subscribers and now many are over ~~10k~~ 20k.
- So much of that steep was beans lmao
  
  Nonsense, Lemmy's come a long way. We used to be hung up complaining about Reddit... but now we complain about Facebook.
  
  Bean posting

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 been really cool witnessing the activity of this place grow.

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
- 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.
  
  The dips in the graph could be caused by some of the servers/instances going offline, post deletions, or a combination of both.
- its total by day the dip is deletion
  
  Or botted contents going, or instances going offline. I'm pretty sure it's total. I think world and ml have around 500k posts. There is no way it can be a daily contents when those 2 are the most active.
- It's total
- I think it's total posts. If you look at the list of instances and posts at the bottom it matches closer to total posts:
  https://the-federation.info/platform/73
  It's still epic and growing both in quality and activity, but it's still got a long way to grow. I feel optimistic. :)

Lemmy feels like Reddit 10-15 years ago, which is great.
- Yup! As someone with a 16 year old reddit account, I've seen it all. This feels like back in the day
  
  The grit of a new community site is what I missed

Finally made the switch, looking forward to doom scrolling here :)
- ABANDON ALL HOPELESSNESS YE WHO ENTER HERE

Invest! Invest! Oh wait, I’m glad that’s not the point here ;)
- THIS. IS. SOCIALISM!
  As social networking should be.
  
  Ooh ma, you said the S word.
  
  🤗 INDEED
- calls on lemmy, puts on reddit
  
  Is that financial advise?
- To the moon. 🚀

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.
- 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.
  
  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?

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).
- It feels like it is possible to have a conversation here. In Reddit I felt like my comments were getting buried
  
  I don't have anything else to add, just wanted to feel included
  
  After moderating a bigger subreddit and seeing just how much spam there was in the comments and just how many people spend time replying to these bots I basically stopped reading them. Here I haven't see bots yet and at least my home instance watches out that it stays that way.
  
  Agree. Even if you post a top level comment you are likely to get a response and start a conversation.
  
  Agreed. Because it's relatively smaller it feels more like a community than some of the huge subreddits
  
  Filtering by rising and posting meta jokes was the standard if you wanted to get seen and interacted with.
  Here you can just make a decently thought out comment and most of the time get at least one reply by the end of the day.
  
  Most of the time yes, but some of the ol reddit habits are popping up from time to time. Nuance discussion on difficult topics is still difficult
  
  On the large subs it was that but so much on niche subs like AndroidApps.
- I think pioneers are more likely to post than late followers.
  
  You are correct. The first group of people to join is usually the most active because they believe in the project.

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

I'm not saying it's because of beans, but it's probably because of beans.
- Or the poop withholer

Wow, over 4K. This might be the most upvoted post yet.
- Close! https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
  
  Oh my god the can of beans? Seriously?!
  
  I can't reply over there and I dunno why. Says I must be logged in, but I am :(

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/
- Just 2 days after iamthatis exposed Reddit's bullshit about Apollo
  
  Literally the reason I ditched my account
- Was that also the day Sync for Lemmy was announced?

I love it here.
(I wonder if they’re getting worried yet.)
- Far from that probably. But hopefully they will eventually

I did my part. Made a post here, never did on reddit in ten years.
- I have definitely made more posts here in the month I have been here than I did on reddit in 8 years. They are mostly of my cat (and help posts on !selfhosted@lemmy.world and such).

Lemme celebrate
- Lemmy celebrate!
  
  Lemm.ee celebrate

How many of them are 196 shitposting?
- I already have them blocked
  
  I'm still confused to the nth degree, but some of them are funny

That is one beautiful graph!
- I'd like to see the logistic version as well!
  
  You mean logarithmic? It wouldn't look as good at first but maybe over time the line will become at least linear, hopefully.

Lemmy feels cozy. Reddit feels unpleasant

I don't wanna poo poo on this, but there are bots literally just scraping Reddit and reposting all of the content. Big grain of rice here, gents.
- I mean bots on reddit are copying reddit to paste it on Reddit. In the future bots on Lemmy will copy Lemmy posts and paste it on Lemmy too. that's just how reddit and lemmy works
  
  That is not how it needs to work.
- If that brings in content, why not? After all what is much of Reddit? Just posts of content outside of Reddit as well.
  As Lemmy increases in subscribers, I suspect scraping Reddit will decrease anyhow.

You can absolutely feel how much bigger it got, and it feels more and more populated every day.
I've been here only one week and the change has been so obvious.

You love to see it. So much better here than Reddit, community-wise.

Happy to finally be able to login and post something 😀

What happened on June 21st? The API shutdown was on July 1st.
- It was around the days when spez goons started threatening moderators to open their subs
- i think some migrated early
  
  I came during the blackout and planned to go back afterwards. I committed to staying when spez opened his mouth.
- Some preemptively moved over in a transition period maybe?
- Was that around the time of the spez AMA? Maybe that was a tipping point for a lot of people - the various protests had been completely ignored and admins tripled-down.
- It was clear around then that we might as well jump ship. No reason to wait to the last minute... I was ready to de-reddit and not go there any more.
- The news broke before July 1st
- I don't think I was that early, but I made my account about a week before the 3rd party shutdown. I'd imagine a bunch of others did too.

Rooting for you lemmy!

Add one more. This is also my first fediverse comment. I've been lurking for a bit, but finally signed up today.
- Welcome to the community. I hope you enjoy your time here, I know I have!

This is just perfect to see, and the change in communities and conversation is really noticeable

The graphic seems to be like a wallstreetbets launch.

Hey! I helped do something! You’re wrong about being a 50 year old dead beat mom and dad!
…when’s lunch?

This is exciting! Lemmy is so cool.

How many beans posts are among 1mil? That's the real question.

That's pretty impressive. I hope it continues to grow. It would be nice if there was some way to mirror the content that gets posted on Reddit specifically the highly popular posts in news subreddits but otherwise I like it a lot.
- If only there was some sort of Reddit API that we could use to retrieve & mirror content from Reddit… 🤔
  Oh wait! 😅

Just curious, does this include posts from kbin users to lemmy communities? I'd imagine it doesn't count posts to kbin magazines, since kbin is a different software altogether (maybe posts from lemmy users to kbin magazines count).

That's an insane stat. As a Reddit immigrant, I would love to know the percentage of those who posted on Reddit and/or were mods, have migrated as well. That would correlate with the increase of posts in Lemmy, as well as the degredation of content on Reddit. Let's see how this goes.

A million posts and 6 million comments. Neat to see the change in servers 71 to 1400.
- Out of curiosity, do gifs work on here?
  
  that first one loaded
- At the moment, I'm guessing gif support depends on the individual client app, probably? On Connect it shows up as a link, which opens the gif rather than it being embedded.

We done did it, doin it out here, big things, wildin, etc.. Seriously though, I'm happy to be a part of this as a recent redditfugee. I'm never going back. I miss r/emo, I miss r/oneyplays, I miss r/twosentencehorror, I miss all my saved posts and threads, but I'm not fucking around with Reddit on principle, and also as everyone here has been so kind and helpful. I was in a community that posted something about Lemmy being founded as an anti-corpo movement and that's cool as hell and aligns with how I am. So yes yes, I'm all in on exploring and growing this Undiscovered Country

What happened on 6/20? Hundreds of thousands where posted within a very short period.
- Sync coming to Lemmy was announced on the 20th. I was on Kbin, but I came over here when I saw that, so maybe that was a wee push?
- I'd say probably the users leaving reddit due to the api changes. Iirc around the 20th was when spez did an AMA about the changes and made PR exponentially worse by using canned responses, throwing subtle insults here and there and ignoring the big questions in favor of what he'd already had his PR team write a response for. It was more rage inducing than the initial api change announcement.
  I could be completely wrong though maybe that wasn't on the 20th but feels like it was in my head canon
- It's s daily average, not total

I was not a hardcore reddit user. I made just 2 or 3 posts in those few years I was using reddit. I was mainly reading posts and comments. I was using Sync for Reddit and there I noticed Sync is comming to Lemmy, I signed up to get notification when it's ready, but that's pretty much it. But today I wanted to browse reddit and I couldn't, and I didn't want to use official app, because it's just crap, so I registered on Lemmy, searched for Lemmy app, found Connect, installed it, tried it and I have to say I kinda like it. I really hope Lemmy grew up even more.

I could almost cry 😢 Toothpicks and rubber bands, your just like me, Lemmy.

Very happy to see user engagement, its a very positive sign and will ultimately lead to downfall of reddit.

Its good to see more competition again.
- It's a game to me to find other users from the same instance. Hello fellow lemmy.ca user!

Poggers

Since the 30th I've stopped going on reddit, but I must admit I still don't participate here as much because the content I'm seeing it's not as tailored to my interests as I'd like. Searching for communities tends to show a lot of communities with no participation at all, which is useless.
Also wished there was a video player. Being constantly redirected to youtube is a bit annoying.
But I'm very happy with Memmy for Lemmy. Not as polished as Apollo, but close enough. And Lemmy feels freer from bot/ai/ad content, and that is worth gold.
- Have you tried wefwef?
- but I must admit I still don’t participate here as much because the content I’m seeing it’s not as tailored to my interests as I’d like. Searching for communities tends to show a lot of communities with no participation at all, which is useless
  yeah that's the unfortunate thing about a smaller site! but the onus is on all of us to start participating, so even if you see an empty community, just post something in there!
- well, communities without participants is not Lemmy's fault.
  Although I do share the same experience. Euro communities are almost dead. Escooter community has like 5 members lol.
  
  The german lemmy community seems quite active from what I can tell. Can't say anything about the EU community as a whole, just created my account 5 minutes ago and I'm still exploring what there is to see.

Any confirmation that these are not bot posts?
- Beep boop.
  No, definitely normal human posts made my normal actual human beings.
  
  Hello fellow humans!
- I personally haven't seen many bot posts
  
  Could you even tell?
  After all, we are in the era of advanced LLMs.

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