Submitted 18 hours ago by Uri@infosec.pub to [deleted]
I mean I don’t see much activity outside politics.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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?
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.
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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 nowadays
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?
No way, i get my best memes here.
Got some recommendations? I’m always looking for more places
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.
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.
No
I have specifically blocked news and politics and still find enough content to never run out when I’m bored at work
I think it’s waiting for some new event that will drive a lot of people away from Reddit again to achieve critical mass and finally outgrow Reddit. In the meantime, I’m trying to keep my little corner of Lemmy alive - my dinky little special-interest communities - so that those who don’t want to partake in the big Reddit equivalent know they have an alternative on here that’s not stale.
Unfortunately, Reddit has learned from their mistakes and restricted the ability for moderators to lock down their own subreddits. So any protest actions will not be as effective as 2023.
And just recently, Reddit announced that you can no longer generate your own API keys and will need to request permission from Reddit themselves. This is the final nail in the coffin for 3rd party apps, as back in 2023 you could still generate your own API keys and continue using 3rd party apps. The silence in the public outrage against this is deafening.
Instead of taking drastic actions affecting the most amount of people, Reddit is taking smaller actions that will slowly kill off things they don’t like. This will limit the outrage, and at the same time, they get to achieve what they want.
Don't forget giving accounts the ability to hide their activity on the profile page, making bots and corporate spam accounts very easy to hide.
Making it functionally impossible to track bot activity.
Reddit, like Facebook, has the advantage of inertia: most people are on Reddit, so other people patronize Reddit, making Reddit even larger. And just like Facebook, it takes something particularly egregious from Reddit to get enough people to walk out at the same time. And you’re correct: Reddit has learned to slow-boil the frogs to avoid this.
But - maybe I’m naive - I’m banking of the Fediverse offering consistently better quality and less drama than Reddit to slowly attract people who want something better, and I’m trying to do my part to increase the S/N ratio on here.
2023 was such a wasted opportunity because the moderators chickened out. For about a week, almost every single sizeable community was blacked out. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.
A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.
When did you see the most activity here?
I never see anything related to politics and just feel things getting better.
Follow things you care about instead.
i don’t think so. it appears to be growing tbh.
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
It’s definitely not growing, so yeah.
You can change the sorting to show the new posts. You can also change the list to show posts from all communities from all federated instances (except from banned ones). I mostly find very recent posts.
When you block the political communities, all you see is good content.
When you block memes communities you realize how much lemmy is concentrated on very few topics
block memes communities
What are you some kind of monster?
The problem is that Lemmy also has no news communities, because they are all just tankie campgrounds.
Come to a space created by communists then proceeds to cry about communists
Unfortunately we can’t filter out all the Americans but once you block and filter all the US communities and US politics communities it is quite usable and active enough to browse Hot or Top Day or what you choose. It’s not enough to browse constantly all day long but once or twice a day.
I believe Lemmy itself is shrinking. Last I checked Fediverse Observer, it was on a downward trend (although not drastically). That said, that excludes PieFed. I think when including PieFed we’re probably growing (very) slowly.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub 1 hour ago
i’m good, thanks for asking! all healthy here!