I mean I don’t see much activity outside politics. Edit: As you all mentioned I’ll try blocking some political and news communities and try to find some new communities.
i’m good, thanks for asking! all healthy here!
I remember years ago when I was just an account-less lurker on lemmy. I’d only check in once a week, and still half the posts were the same ones I saw last week.
Things have changed a lot since then, and I don’t think we’ll ever get back down to those levels; but I’d still use lemmy even if it did.
slowly yes
Yeah. Lemmy’s former growth came from external events which brought users to Lemmy. Without more of these shocks, I don’t see Lemmy growing.
I don’t have a problem with that.
The last thing I want is all of the propaganda and barely literate morons that have parasitized the rest of the internet coming here to churn it into a fucking cesspool of idiocy.
I do wish it was as funny as a younger reddit, I used to be bowled over reading comments. I fesr we have lost a spark from all the fuckery of the world.
I know people have posted user stats now and then. More like stagnant at the moment. Slow growth would be ideal. I’m not interested in gaining mass appeal tbh.
No.
No way, i get my best memes here.
Got some recommendations? I’m always looking for more places
I’m sure not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve been getting a kick out of Anti Meme lately.
No. I have blocked most politics- and news-communities and I get plenty of content and discussions.
Same, I’ve blocked every single news and politics and it’s bustling
Same. Its beautiful and the number one feature for me.
Maybe you need to follow more communities.
Tbf most people are just lurkers. So it is theoretically possible that we have bigger community on something, but very low traffic.
Which communities do you most recommend or enjoy?
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Check out this feed of communities NOT focused on politics, tech, or memes: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
And here’s a feed of meme/humor-oriented communities NOT focused on politics or tech: https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
There are plenty of others, those are just the ones I like.
@uri@infosec.pub
Guess I’ll also move to a piefed instance. Do you know any instance that has good moderation and does not relay on cloudflare.
I think all piefed instances rely on cloudflare, tho the recent downtime made em start thinking of how to do otherwise. I keep my old lemmy accounts around in case I need them. e.g. lemmy on slrpnk.net worked OK bc they don’t use cloudflare.
Interesting, I can’t seem to find highsignal when I search in Voyager.
Edit: Nevermind, Voyager doesn’t do feeds. I didn’t realize it was a thing.
Feels active to me… but I usually subscribe and participate in communities I want to follow and then browse my Lemmy Subscribed page. Rarely look at the All page, it gets annoying scrolling through tons of posts about topics I have no interest in.
I‘ve been seeing similar comments pop up a few times already and it always confuses me. Aside from some niche interests, lemmy feels very much alive to me and there are plenty of discussions to join.
Some people wanted it to immediately get huge…
Just so it can have all the other issues big social media has.
They didn’t want something different, they wanted to be an “early adapter” of the next reddit.
Well I’m a fediverse user for years now. I once hosted my own Lemmy instance.
I kinda don’t see much content nowadaysBut what is missing? What’s your sort order? Hot or scaled work really well for me. Are you just looking at everything or did you pick communities to follow? How do you discover new communities?
I go to the all feed and follow through rss. Discovering communities is a issue that i can’t find sollution
I saw a post asking the same thing the day I joined lemmy dot world with my first account.
That was a couple years ago now. I think I’m on my third instance?
It’s growing and is a good place to contribute to honest discussion, from what I can see; I’d like to take the opportunity to compare such comments as these to something akin to MMORPG discussions.
I don’t know if there’s a complete term for the idea but saying “X online community is dying” in MMORPG communities can fuel their own death spirals as others see it and also begin to believe the game has a shrinking community and therefore will be an empty lot not worthy of your time.
I would advise that if you like what you see here, contribute and help make the communities you like flourish than contribute to a perceived decline.
Bonus points if anyone thinks I’m clever. :S
No
When did you see the most activity here?
Can it technically die assuming some people still remain active and continue to use its protocols or whatever?
Its not centralized in a way it even can die in a guranteeable way. Like if Reddit closed down, there would be competitors popping up but Reddit itself the servers would cease to function and it would be dead but to my knowledge, Lemmy is built to avoid all that
