「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Does anyone else feel like fediverse (particulary Lemmy) is getting more and more quieter?
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justdaveisfineWeirdly 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 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.
It does feel more active in certain communities, so there may be something to that.
The mods are dicks and are pushing agendas to kill the normal things you love.
coalieMaybe you should subscribe to different communities then. Or contact the admins to see if the mods can be replaced.
Im not sure a community will grow if we just isolate and echo chamber. Lol the mod and admins are in on it whether for ego power tripping or perhaps they are being paid controlling opposition idk 15 years ago I would not even have entertained that idea. Its probably just so they can commercialize and sell out like reddit.
Its probably just so they can commercialize and sell out like reddit.
How? Take a look at Reddit stock pancaking (well before Trumps economic fiasco) and it’s stagnation. There isn’t a guarantee of success with that model, what makes you think a federated one with multiple servers would fare better?
My word, that’s a take…
How much revenue do you think they make in ads? What was shithead ceo bonus for the enshitenfication? Capitalism doesn’t need to make sense just immediate profit for a few elite.
That the great thing about decentralization, you could start a new community on a different instance without those mods and admins.
And beg for donation like nsfw till you all annoy me enough to ghost? Lol ha im ahead of you.
Bilb!Settle down bibi.
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… 👀)
SubArcticTundraYou might like this post of mine
If computer screens had a physical dimension, they would be infinitely deep. - Lemmy.World
If computer screens had a physical dimension, they would be infinitely deep. Around you there is a room. You’ve probably already exhausted all the concievable ideas for things to do in that room, because there is a finite and quite small number of objects inside it. That is why the internet has such a draw to it. If you are trapped in the room (not necessarily physically), the internet gives you an alternate means by which to wonder wherever you like. You can go anywhere. You can go exploring. All from the same prison cell of a room. I came to this thought by questioning why it was that I’ve been spending so much of my time online, in front of a screen. It also made me understand what people would have done in the days before screens (say the 1920s). So long as you aren’t trapped in a cell, your physical surroundsings are an almost equivalent alternative to the internet. You can go exploring or wonder aimlessly (like through TikTok). If it was 1920 and I was stuck at home with nothing to do, instead of watching a screen I would have gone down to the square/street, grabbed a beer, sat down, and just waited for something to happen. Anything. Eventually there would. Incidentally I tried this the other week and it worked. The city is a source of dopamine. You can go to the same websites and there’ll be something new to watch every day — so long as you watch the little details and wait for long enough. I realize this might seem stupidly obvious to some. But I’m a Gen Zedder who grew up very sheltered and with a computer, so it only just hit me that this is how life is supposed to work. Like, I do have a social life and everything, but this explains why it has all seemed so predictable (ie. unless I arranged something, nothing would happen.) There are two infinitely deep spaces to exist in, and I was blind to one of them.
Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.
Not sure just joined I like the speed more than reddit.
ORbituaryI have noticed a change. It seems to coincide with the lemmynsfw.com disappearing, but im not attributing it to that, oy the timing. I seem to recall another server disappearing around then.
Has there been a reduction in active users?
SpacePandaNsfw is gone? Can you tell me more? Did it just disappear? I noticed a lot less porn in my feed so I guess that explains that.
It went down a couple of weeks ago. It was weird to think of an Internet community without porn. Another instance got spun up a week or two later.
DaveOriginal admin went AWOL, other admin couldn’t access server. Second admin couldn’t get ahold of first admin, eventually server went down. Second admin started new NSFW instance.
Then they somehow got everything back (maybe original admin replied to messages), and so the old site went up again as an archive.
Interesting, thank you!
If I remember correctly, the instance owner vanished but left the instance running.
Secondary admins kept the place running until something happened to the instance itself. Something with the database that the admin didn’t have access to recover from.
I believe it was that secondary admin that spun up the new instance.
Sorry that’s vague but about to get ready for work.
Thats good enough, thank you for the info.
lemm.ee went
*quiet
I hereby invoke my “English is my 4th language” excuse…
(okay tbh it’s not really a good excuse, since I came to the US when I was very young…
But in my defence I hated Reading/Writing classes tho… had self-confidence issues and took years till I felt like I “know” the language… math was always my favorite…)
It’s probably natural - unless some big site like Reddit shits its pants yet again, there’s not going to be a major influx of new users. Even if something like that happens, parts of the fediverse are just a hard sell - relentless negativity, poor browsability and discoverability, trolling and bitchiness, and a lot of the content that’s left is just… dull.
I’m bored out of my mind too, and even then hanging here is only occasionally worth it.
How dare you come for c/dull_mens_club like that
dohpaz42It’s quiet on gemini protocol too…
I find the social media (piefed and mastodon) I use are busy enough to keep me entertained, not too busy to make me addictated.
No. You’ve likley just hit max consumption and your topic count is at peak.
Jump in on some different comms. I found one with dad jokes that’s pretty fun!
Looks like Lemmy lost 3.4% of MAU over the last week (Fediverse Activity Post). With severs jumping in and out it might feel more like 7-8%.
I’ve seen a lot more pro violence posts and comments lately, which is pretty off putting. I’ve not posted several times because I don’t want to end up on a list because of some echo chambers of maladjusted people. I don’t comment that often to begin with, and lemme/piefed seems to attract people banned from other platforms and other weirdos. Just not a very welcoming platform.
CherrySame. It was chill then suddenly about the last few weeks there is a lot of animosity on average posts.
There’s suddenly a lot more extreme views. Almost like ganging up to make people shrink or censor.
And finally a spike of relationship drama posts. They feel fake and fishy. Maybe bots.
Viktoria (They/She)Give me an example of the drama posts? Interesting, maybe it’s me?
And then stomped in the nuts!
LibbI’ve seen a lot more pro violence posts and comments lately, which is pretty off putting.
I don’t see much if any content promoting violence myself (I also don’t post any, and was not banned from anywhere: I left reddit the I realized I disagreed with their policy).
So, if I may ask: have you tried using the settings to decide what’s (not) displayed in your home feed, coupled with keywords and blocking the most obvious trolls, those are fine tools to remove most if not all of that… sad content.
For example, on my home feed I only display ‘Subscribed’ content meaning that the only content I read comes from those communities I’m already subscribed to… none of which promoting any violence or, when this happens or when I realize some community is not as as I expected it to be I just unsubscribe from it and I don’t have to read it ever again. Also, I don’t hesitate to block people the moment I realize they’re to trigger emotions and provoke, not to discuss.
I’ve seen a lot of violence posts coming from non us users. It seems there’s some kind of effort to incite the us into violence going on and I don’t like it one bit.
Maybe, just maybe there’s some kind of reason why people from other countries hate the US more, recently?
Absolutely not we’re GRRRRREAT!
I mean, duh?
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.
JohnnyEnzymethere’s plenty of comics content posted across a range of communities…
GreatWhiteBuffalo41Make 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
ProdigalFrogI post funny animations to [email protected] sometimes, and there’s [email protected] for some other fun stuff :D
There’s also [email protected].