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This is mostly me just typing into the void, but I noticed that my 1,000th post was coming up and decided to do something to commemorate it.

I first joined Lemmy in Janurary 2021, before the June 2023 craze. Lemmy was a much different place back then, practically a ghost town. Eventually, I only used Lemmy for a few months, then reluctantly went back to lurking Reddit.

Fast forward to June 2023, with Reddit announcing their new API changes. People were furious, and you all decided that the best course of action was to move to an open-source, federated Reddit alternative. You all chose wisely.

It took a while, but very soon, Lemmy became (mostly) what Reddit lost, and it's all thanks to you guys! A lot has happened in the past 14 months, with me starting my weekly "disc market share" reports on [email protected] and me somehow becoming one of the co-moderators of [email protected]. So many posts, cross-posts, so many comments, and upvotes.

And now, I've reached my 1,000th Lemmy post. I never imagined that Lemmy would grow to become the second-most popular ActivityPub service! Thanks to the Lemmy devs and all the contributors and users that make this possible!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Living legend, indeed. 🫑

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Grats, thanks for contributing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

And this is my 1,000th Lemmy comment!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I just looked and I had 1234 comments.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

You're a madman!! Thank you for your contributions to the Lemmy community.

[–] can 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did you intend for them to coincide or did it just end up being pretty close anyway?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At first it was pretty close, with the comments always being slightly ahead, but I decided I wanted them to coincide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I see what you did there. Very suave!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thank God you did this, I couldn’t have handled it if you hadn’t

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Lemmy oldhead! Nice!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Thank you for posting stuff for me to type comments on lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Nice, 250 posts and comments a year, on average more than one of either each day when combined! That seems like a normal amount that no sane person would exceed.

[–] imaqtpie 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy chrimbus! Nice activity bro. You're like ThePicardManeuver of cats and anime

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Absolutely no one would ever do such a thing

Screenshot of @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz’s comment and post count of 5.5k and 8.9k, respectively, and 1y account age

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It would be madness!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's crazy. I hope to get to 1k someday.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You've certainly done an outstanding job in the comments department. Not bad for someone who's only been here for 6 months!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haha thanks. I admit to being a little cheeky.
I came over with the reddit exodus. Just forget my password, so created this account. I probably have around the same amount on the other one.

It's amazing how much time you can kill when you're constantly at doctors appointments all week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's amazing how much time you can kill when you're constantly at doctors appointments all week.

Doctors appointments? Not for any negative reasons, I hope?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Recovery and maintenance, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Ugh, I started in the middle of June last year and I have over 3K. Apparently I have no life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That even distribution is impressive

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You're an OG for providing the OC

[–] thal3s 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

YOU'RE awesome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Hey, I'm impressed!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

thats impressiveX

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A fellow old-timer here pushing for 900 comments salutes you! You keep doing your thing, congratulations!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you for all your posts!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

FALSE.

The picture shows only 999.

^(/s)^

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great. Now he's gotta count every comment again!