Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.
Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
There's a whole https://fanaticus.social/ instance for sports
Same. The White Sox community right now is just a bot posting game results.
We can just talk about Americas team then. That’ll unify everything, right? 😉
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).
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. 😊
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?
I assure you, the beans are of the highest quality.
They bean that the beans weren't serious discussion...beans.
BEANS
we have bean through a phase, but we are moving into more mature content in a brisket
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.
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
We all need to post this on reddit. Spread the word that this platform is booming and more people will come over!
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!
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!
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.
It was plenty back then....
ah, the poscard sized videos of the RE:RE:RE
Just joined. Can't wait for Boost for Lemmy
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.
We did it Lemmy! We've reached an arbitrary number of posts.
To the next numerically observable milestone! 🚀
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
So much of that steep was beans lmao
Complaining about reddit: 🙅
Complaining about threads: 💁
I much prefer complaining about the weather.
Bean posting
Leaving a comment to say I was here in the making of internet 3.0
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.
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.
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.
Finally made the switch, looking forward to doom scrolling here :)
ABANDON ALL HOPELESSNESS YE WHO ENTER HERE

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.
Invest! Invest! Oh wait, I’m glad that’s not the point here ;)
🤗 INDEED
Is that financial advise?
To the moon. 🚀
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.
Haven't seen any identifiable bots here either, on redshit they were everywhere, comment stealers and just plain weird agenda having bots. I hope it doesn't turn into that here, maybe since we haven't really been saturated with bots yet some type of preventative protocol could be put in place? No idea what that would be but it would make sense
I think instance admins will just have to make sure they don't have bots on their platform and block instances that do a bad job at it leading to others getting invaded.
What's funny is I've been getting 10x more replies since the announced api changes which is odd. Before they were announced I would comment many times a day but rarely ever get many replies. Since the api change announcement? I've been staying off mostly bc fuck that place but when I have checked my account there have been 10-20 replies a day to older comments. Weird. Tin-foil-hat me feels like maybe there was a reduction of interaction after he screwed everyone over and maybe he's using bots to make it seem lively. Definitely seen an increase in bot comments
It makes sense, I mean consider that these big social media platforms started making sweeping changes the moment the technology to accurately emulate humans became available for mass integration. Changes that would Inevitably lead to an exodus of a significant number of users.
Now you can trick the real users by claiming you're still operating just the same as before when in reality half the website is just GPT bots and the population has taken a massive hit.
There's no way they'd have been this confident in their choices without a backup plan like subsidizing with generative AI, which means their timing is either coincidental as fuck or exactly where you'd expect it to be based on the invention of the technology they need to ensure longevity.
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.
I think the hot algorithm here is weighted better. It pulls up brand new comments on a similar weight to older comments with hundreds of points, which makes people more likely to see and interact with new comments. The Activity and New Comments post sorts also prioritize ongoing discussions, which I think is pretty cool.
On the large subs it was that but so much on niche subs like AndroidApps.
You are correct. The first group of people to join is usually the most active because they believe in the project.
I'm not saying it's because of beans, but it's probably because of beans.
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?!
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/...
Just 2 days after iamthatis exposed Reddit's bullshit about Apollo
Was that also the day Sync for Lemmy was announced?
I love it here.
(I wonder if they’re getting worried yet.)
I did my part. Made a post here, never did on reddit in ten years.
Lemmy celebrate!
Lemm.ee celebrate
I already have them blocked
That is one beautiful graph!
You mean logarithmic? It wouldn't look as good at first but maybe over time the line will become at least linear, hopefully.
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
That's what I was gonna say, the blackout ended on the 14th and then spez did his ama so I feel like that might've been the push people needed to make the change.
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.
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.
This is just perfect to see, and the change in communities and conversation is really noticeable
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
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.
I could almost cry 😢 Toothpicks and rubber bands, your just like me, Lemmy.
This is exciting! Lemmy is so cool.
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! 😅
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.
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.
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.

Out of curiosity, do gifs work on here?
Its good to see more competition again.
Any confirmation that these are not bot posts?
Beep boop.
No, definitely normal human posts made my normal actual human beings.
Could you even tell?
After all, we are in the era of advanced LLMs.
Poggers
Nostr and Lemmy, these are now my only social networks. No more corporate and government control.
Freedom!
I wonder what the one millionth post was (hopefully something dumb)
Whoever made the post won 1 million lem-coins maybe
Das ist toll!
I'm doing my part!
You must be following the wrong communities, but obviously it's not nearly as busy as Reddit. Yet.
Check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities
You can sort by posts, comments, subscribers, etc. plus other useful filters. It’s currently the best tool for finding active communities - especially if you’re on a smaller instance.
It’s useful because it shows numbers across all instances - not just in relation to your own.
You can see that some of the top communities are not English speaking, which may be why you don’t see them in your feed.
This is so exciting seeing something new grow before our eyes!
Wow. Let's keep it up y'all!
It's getting better. I am not even visiting reddit at all and I still find content here.
I also createdc/woahdude but not too many people adding content. Why is that?
Thanks Steve Huffman!
Glad to see Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse growing!
Woooo look at us go!
Worth noting that Hexbear.net has 274,000 posts but isn't included in this data because it's not federated. Unless that jump on the 21st of June is it. Would be funny that Hexbear is more than 25% of the posts singlehandedly.
as in, actual post originating from people using a lemmy based instance, or all fediverse ActivityPub entrances?
The linked page specifically tracks Lemmy, although it's not clear to me whether it's tracking posts by users from Lemmy instances or posts to Lemmy instances, which is a medium-sized distinction (the latter would include kbin, Mastodon and other Fediverse users who are posting to Lemmy from their home instance, while the former would obviously include only Lemmy users).
If you're unsure, just post. It's fine.
I'm happy to have contributed an entire 0.001% of the posts on this platform
Fun thing is a lot of the seeming Zuck fans are driving this recent spike, with the federation debates. The engagement is spiking our value, which some of the smarter ones probably know and are doing on purpose.
Keep arguing, internet, keep arguing.
Proud to be a small part of that :)
I was there, 3000 years ago \o/
That's quite a jump
what a turntable
I played around with Friendica years ago, it wasn't at the time much to get into. The idea was to setup a Facebook like server that we could use for our family only. Ended up tearing that instance down as we didn't really like it at the time. I'm really excited about Lemmy though, so much so I again, went and setup my own corner of the lemmy-verse. The ideals this is built upon are the ideals that grabbed me into the internet so long ago, freedom and resiliency and the ability to discover something new, not have some algorithm throw it at you. I look forward to seeing this platform continue to grow and being a more active participant in it. Go LEMMY!
Does this include comments or strictly posts?
It will be interesting to see how this graph develops in the following months!
Woah that's dope congratulations lemmy I'm happy to be here to witness it!
Let’s goooo, this is awesome
Amazing! Let’s keep this going!!!
To infinity and beyond
@Paulius@lemmy.world Does it only count Lemmy's posts, or does it include other compatible plateforms, such as Mbin?
Looks like just posts from Lemmy instances. Now, are replies posts? I don't think so, I think it's original topics. But many replies from Lemmy users are going to be to outside sources, so there's a lot going on!
The graph not starting at 0 makes this a bit deceiving at first glance.
It's half way up a line at the start of the graph, and the end of the graph is at 8 lines tall, so by my math I'd say it looks like 16x vs roughly the actual ~4x improvement.
Unfortunately it's only 6 posts that aren't about lemmy or reddit.
Looking at the monthly active users on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats it's interesting to see that Lemmy gained around 10k new MAUs this year until april and then lost around 10k again since then.
And 90% of them have been bitching about reddit, talking about reddit, or asking how we can make the fediverse more like reddit. I'd love to contribute more, but there is honestly very little in the way of content here outside of the reddit exodus, besides basic memes and nsfw bullshit pages which are already getting flooded with bots selling OnlyFans subs. People have talked about how much higher quality the posts are here, but I don't see it at all.
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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
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The jump in posts over the last month is incredible. I find Lemmy quickly replacing Reddit which is great.
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