I’m trying to boost this community with my YouTube channel and I’m going to maybe promote Lemmygrad on my recent new subreddit as well (/r/52BooksForCommunists), but aside from that, I have a good feeling about this place. It’s a nice place to relax and get news from. I usually check back here almost every day.
I think Dessalines/muad_dibber really helped out by making this community. And I do have a good feeling about this place’s prospects. A year? Two years? Five? Ten? It’ll grow, I’m sure.
Anyway, I think we’re reaching our first year, if we haven’t already (or has that milestone already been passed?) but either way, we should try to help build up this community whenever we can.
Thanks!
Lemmygrad is kinda stagnating at the moment, but places like chapo keep growing and the main instance at lemmy.ml is also much bigger than I expected (7.5k users).
The size of it also allows it to be pretty mellow. I dread the day we’ll have struggle sessions on main lol. It’s still small enough that we can know everyone. I have entirely replaced reddit with lemmygrad because of how toxic reddit is and of course the white supremacist userbase that the admins support doesn’t help lol.
I also don’t like /r/communism.
There’s literally almost no discourse anymore last time I checked. You say something, you get banned. Quite literally, actually.
FYI the user count on Lemmy is currently broken, it also includes remote users (so eg the user count on lemmy.ml includes lemmygrad.ml users). But that will be fixed in the next version which we will release next week.
Nice! BTW I also sometimes see remote posts show up when I am in the “local” setting, and they disappear after I refresh the page. Don’t know if this was already reported.
We’ve already passed the milestone, I believe sometime in the late summer, i’d have to look that up. I’m excited for more years though, i’d be surprised if Lemmy doesn’t just keep exponentially growing. Once the existence of the site becomes common enough knowledge that ‘celeb level’ people start saying its name (even in a bad context), we’ll start to see floods of new people.
Oh yeah, definitely.
It’s very low traffic, but also quite high quality.
Yes.
Why was this downvoted by somebody? Yes I hope that we continue to grow! I have seen promotion on Reddit, which is nice. Greater migration may require momentum. Keep in mind that Chapo.chat is also a Lemmy instance and saw a surge at its creation (i do not endorse that instance or its pervasive liberalism). I am hopeful with the news of the Lemmur (Lemmy phone app) and we can all do our part as well to keep the discussions going. There is a lemmygrad chat on Element I think. We could become closer friends with more activity there I suppose
there is a mysterious user who downvotes many posts but never says that they disagree or whatever
