I feel more bored nowadays…
I’ve been here for about two years (just on a different instance now). I feel it has actually grown quite a bit since I first started, but the niche communities are dying rapidly while the main communities grow. As someone who participated in a lot of niche communities on Reddit before Apollo went offline, I really feel kinda lost. I really hope people put more effort into those communities and hope those who are still on Reddit while using Lemmy encourage frustrated users to join us here.
i think the users might actually be slightly increasing but the doomerism is dominating
I find myself scrolling here less because of all the doomerism and bad news. It’s just exhausting to be bombarded with it all day.
All redditors coming here
MY BAD, I’LL SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER (:
… I need to post more lol
To be frank the overwhelming amount of trump news is starting to make me feel drained
I should post some art on the furry communities to cheer up the placeWe don’t have enough small speciality communities yet unfortunately. Bring the furries and the cheer. I miss all the professional/trade subs. Don’t see many of them active on here.
Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.
I’ve noticed I spend less time on Lemmy than I did on Reddit. Some of that may have to do with content, but I think it’s mostly Lemmy isn’t manipulating what I’m looking at to keep the dopamine hits coming. It definitely feels like withdrawal at times.
I am learning to appreciate the joy of opening Lemmy after I checked it a few hours ago and not seeing anything new and having the freedom to close the app again.
Absolutely this. I banned the big platforms from my phone and only use Fediverse apps now. When I opened Instagram it kinda felt like when I had a relapse and became flooded with sadness, rage and Weltschmerz. Here I check for a couple of minutes, still my conditioning to reach for scrolling and move on with my day.
And whenever I write a comment here I’m not scared to regret it soon after.
Yeah, it keeps me honest. If there’s nothing more to look at, I’m more apt to pick up a book or work on the side project more.
Just like the good old days. Check facebook book for the party and bounce. Long before algos and built in games.
Nah, I’m just checking it more often, which is a sign I need to take some preventative corrections towards my mental health now that I think of it
Hey now, no need to call me out so hard lol
Not sure about Lemmy, but I have noticed an influx in loops.video content recently, especially in my native language. That’s probably because Loops is starting to be usable now. There’s some YouTubers I already followed and even some local progressive politicians. This year a project named “digital day of independence” started, that educates people every month about how to switch from big tech, which probably also has something to do with it.
Not quieter, no, but the memes are all gone now. It’s just “This is how fucked the world is” now. I miss the funny memes.
Make sure you’re following some fun stuff too. Otherwise it just gets depressing.
Personally I try to follow only fun stuff! Subscribed/Home feed for fun, All feed for doom and gloom.
Ooohhh smart
there’s plenty of comics content posted across a range of communities…
I post funny animations to !animation@piefed.social sometimes, and there’s !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz for some other fun stuff :D
There’s also !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe.
Thanks, subscribed.
I am a newcomer, lile only had an account for a monnth now, did it used to be more lively?
I was here since June 12, 2023 (this is not my first account)…
I feel like there was an explosion at the beginning, then it dropped to like half of the activity…
Then it just slowly and slowly declining till like this past month or so when it just had a sharp crash
I guess this place is too ML-Adjacent that normies didn’t wanna deal with it…
I mean they probably didn’t even learn of the block function and just saw the front page and noped out lol
Pls stay tho… I hate authoritarians so much, I don’t wanna deal with dictators like reddit
I joined a few of the equivalents to my usual subreddits.
No posts in like 3 years on most of them. It’s lively enough on the tech and meme pages, but nobody here seems to have the same hobbies as me. Hell even /trees is dead, do none of y’all smoke weed?
That might also be because it’s been defederated from your instance.
I’m new to this whole thing, are you saying if I was on another instance I would see more posts from some subs and less from others?
Never even seen weed irl…
Yeah, I really want my friends and family to switch over to Pixfed from instagram/facebook.
I feel like it will be eventually easier to get my close friends to switch over to matrix form discord though. I feel like “real” people dont post on instagram anymore anyways and it’s all just influencers and corporations
I think Fluxer is a better choice as a Discord alternative. The interface and paradigm are much better.
God no. It’s been a slow grind, but I think it’s growing!
I post daily and have a fairly steady amount of up votes and comments. This time of year interaction dies down pretty noticeably. I used to think it was me and I was doing something wrong, but people are just doing spring stuff and not on here as much. They’ll be back. There’s a couple periods a year where it happens. It’s just more noticeable here since we have less people.
I noticed it too with the upvotes on my content. A few weeks ago my predictions when I hit a certain mark of upvotes were pretty accurate, but now the amount of upvotes in the first 12h dropped notably.
Your mention of spring sound like a plausible reasoning to me.
I used to discuss it with the people on c/fedigrow because it would bum me out. I thought I had upset people somehow.
They reminded me of things like spring break from school and people doing family things and all that. I don’t have kids or close family, so a lot of that kind of thing slips my mind that others have to do things in relation to that.
And once you see they do eventually come back, you get used to it.
I would feel the same as you if I were the only poster in the communities. But as there is at least one other (MentalEdge) and the dent is similar, I don’t need to worry (about my quality; but still if the community as a whole is running fine if they don’t come back after a while).
You 2 do a great job with your communities! I’m very jealous you have such a counterpart. That would be such a relief.
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Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x
Ahhhhh no I dont wanna touch grass.
The grass is lava.
(I’ve been procrastinating my writing project for like… months… probably a year… lol)
(Did you know, the outside world has monsters that will abduct people and eat them?
USA btw… ICE… 👀)
You might like this post of mine
Weirdly in my own personal experience, a lot of social media spaces have been quieter, with many people I know who used to be avid posters are now no longer posting at all.
For the fediverse specifically, there’s definitely higher activity hours and low ones. Sometimes refreshing the feed has nothing new for like ~20 minutes, and sometimes its every time I refresh, which is kind of odd.
I think the Fediverse has grown while the rest of the internet has died a bit.
It does feel more active in certain communities, so there may be something to that.
I feel this. I stopped using almost all social media except pie fed (if you can call pie fed social media). This makes me part of the disappearing voices elsewhere, I used to be pretty active elsewhere.
I’d still call it social media as the comments/discussions are pretty much the bread and butter of PieFed.
They’re all on TikTok now.
Gotta build the community. This is not a bot driven Russian/american Propaganda machine. Its humans. A lot like forums from ye olden days, which were far better.
Real humans aren’t posting click bait 2000 times a minute.
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Real human posting live from the toilet once a day
