Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.
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The jump in posts over the last month is incredible. I find Lemmy quickly replacing Reddit which is great.
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.
It’s possible they changed their policy. I posted links when the blackout was happening.
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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.
I may not be your homie, brother, but I do hate Spez.
That’s all you need bro, that’s what makes us family.
Don’t call me bro, pal!
Don’t call me pal, friend!
Same except for me its BoostforReddit.
Hype for Boost for Lemmy
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???
On the website your can change display name and I used a random fancy text generator I found in Google. Some are compatible, some are not.
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.
What are you using now? I’m using Connect for Lemmy and it feels very close to Sync because of gestures. I’ll be torn when Sync comes out because I’m enjoying this so much. (And Connect is Canadian like me. Haha)
Connect kept giving me time-out errors. Switched to Lift-Off and it’s better imo. Will be using it till Sync is out
When is the last time you used it? It was like that a while back but recent updates have my experience near flawless.
Try Summit, it’s really good
I’m using liftoff which is very nice. I tried out pretty much all the apps and I like this one the most. The interface is the nicest and it has gestures like Infinity where I came from.
Liftoff seems like the best one for now, until Sync and Boost come out and duke it out for the top spot.
I actually prefer Jerboa when it works honestly, but it’s still too unstable to use.
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.
I did. I’m excitedly waiting!
/c/beetlejuicing
I love how active you are as a developer in the community.
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!
Reddit user of 12 years here. God I hope this place takes off like Voat was supposed to. Reddit has just changed so damn much. I was honestly sick of the place since before the crazy app meltdown.
I’ve got high hopes for Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general. Voat’s issue was it was a haven for fascists and fascist sympathizers, and a centralized site made that the general vibe. The federated model makes it so they can do what they want in their own little corner of shit, and the rest of us can ignore them like they deserve.
I only worry about brigading. Where they plan to slowly infiltrate a small instance and in a flick of a switch the simultaneously try to take over, overwhelming the admin.
I think there’s a decent chance it will. At the bare minimum, it already feels much better to me than voat ever did.
The only issue I have right now is that reddit is a good source of technical answers. Kind of like SE without the dismissive, condescending douchebag attitude that seems to be automatic there. Every single time it sounds like they are replying to someone that is actively bothering them. Like dude, you came on the website, checked the forums, and decided to answer. I didn’t send you a text or some shit.
As one of those long time users… yeah. That’s going to be an issue. So much of my Googling is blah blah blah Reddit
I wonder what the first topic of Mondays meeting at Reddit HQ will be? And if the overall feeling is gonna be positive or negative? Oh I wonder.
Reddit seems like the type of company where nobody dares to tell the CEO about any negative developments.
Russia of the internet, one might compare.
Speznazi Pootin
Let’s not look back on reddit with rose tinted glasses.
Much of it was always a dumpster fire.
Yep, I agree. I miss those days of Reddit
Same here.
I feel like when I browse All I still just see the same 20 posts
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
I just switched over for good the other day when Boost stopped working and I honestly can’t say I miss it too much. Still working on getting my feed how I’d like it but the more people join the easier it’ll be.
Yeah some topics are a bit tough with loads of communities spread across different instances/servers. But overall it’s alright.
Hey I like you’re name that’s a great idea
I closed my subs on the 12th - Re-opened on the 14th. polled redditors if i should stay shut or open, They said close until reddit backs off. shut it down again. then deleted my account after the first verge article came out about u/spez saying this blackout will pass and everything will be back to normal and some other stuff. i knew then he wouldn’t change!
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.
Just joined. Can’t wait for Boost for Lemmy
We all can be very proud.
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.
For me while scrolling through a threat I upvote those that I agree with and leave alone those that I disagree, unless it’s done in an asshole kind of way which I kind of despise.
But if I make a post I do tend to upvote everyone which I kind of justify as “rewarding” people for interacting with me.
I follow a similar philosophy, except I do downvote the mean but not rule breaking content. While it’s not bad enough to justify removal, I do still want to discourage people being mean on this platform. For most disagreeable opinions, I’ll either move on or reply with my point of view.
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As Reddit has proven, this is not how the masses use downvotes. I have seen unpopular, but harmless opinions be downvoted.
I have seen people getting downvoted heavily by saying they don’t like x game. That creates echo chambers.
Yeah the issue is that the upvote/downvote binary is used for more than just (good contribution)/(bad contribution).
Back when Reddit was small enough to have community values, reddiquette was taken semi-seriously. But with the push for more users over the past 5-7 years, that’s all gone out the window.
I’ve thought a bit about how that issue could be fixed in a way that still allows content to be rated by usefulness democratically, and I’m pretty convinced that for that to happen, there would need to be an upvote/downvote and an agree/disagree.
Order content by vote delta, but display the agree/disagree counts on the content.
Would be interesting to be able to see content that makes good arguments but that is largely disagreed with instead of having that content disappear at the bottom of the page.
various reaction choices seems to be a better communicator… like on linkedin. i’d rather flag something as interesting or funny or ugh…
Yeah, and that would give people an outlet for when they want to express how they feel about some content without having to muddy the default prioritize/deprioritize-based sorting.
Different people see the meaning of downvote in a different way. I don’t always use it negatively. I think of it now as voting in general terms. Sometimes I do use it because I strongly dislike the comment. I guess maybe we need 2 different downvote options lol
Like two different car horns.
One for, “Hey, I’m over here. Don’t hit me.” And one for, “HEY, I’M OVER HERE! DON’T HIT ME!”
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.
Yup its configured on each instance in the admin settings.
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
I miss when downvote was a “this doesn’t contribute to discussion” button, not a “disagree” button.
Sure go ahead. :)
We did it Lemmy! We’ve reached an arbitrary number of posts.
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!
It’s really starting to feel like a legitimately good Reddit alternative around here, not just “Reddit like” or “Reddit light” and that’s really awesome 😊
The change has been super pronounced in the last week or so. The meme quality has almost gone too damn high. All the news subs / pol subs / game subs I subscribed to on reddit are showing up here which makes the switch easy.
Obligatory
The live quali discussion for Formula 1 yesterday felt like a big indicator for me. Still nothing like the massive Reddit sub (but that one is honestly too big) but it ended up with several hundred comments and people were present and chatting all the way through in a way that felt lively.
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
10k20k.
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.
Complaining about reddit: 🙅
Complaining about threads: 💁
I much prefer complaining about the weather.
Can I complain about people complaining about complaining?
Only if it’s got an overtone of bitching.
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!!
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
It’s been really cool witnessing the activity of this place grow.
