Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.
Unfortunately it’s only 6 posts that aren’t about lemmy or reddit.
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.
Sounds like you need to curate your communities a bit more so your subscribed list works better for you. The memes on the front page are part of the organic growth of the site but there are tons of smaller communities with good stuff here that you can fill your front page with.
The number of posts and users is skyrocketing but we’re not reddit yet, we don’t have all the niche subs with 100,000 subscribing lurkers to drive visibility. If you’re missing an experience then it’s up to you to try to create it by posting what you want to see.
just keep making lemmy like sites better as reddit keeps getting shittier. i do hope reddit keeps making reddit worse.
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.
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.
The graph not starting at 0 makes this a bit deceiving at first glance.
I’m super against abuses in scales but this one isn’t that bad. It wouldn’t have changed too much but yes, it’s slightly deceptive to track it as what looks like 10x the growth instead of 5
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.
