The participation seems way down recently. What did I miss?
I can only speak for myself:
I’m here, still reading and voting, but I haven’t posted/commented as much recently.
Life got a bit busy, should be back to normal in a bit
The irony is that those those that aren’t here can’t answer why they left.
Mostly making sure I didn’t miss some new drama thing or whatnot. Usually those have peripheral observers that will speak up. Friday nights (SoCal) are kinda hit or miss anyways, but we’ve been trending down a good bit recently.
What communities do you check that are more quiet now?
I generally watch the total highest votes counts for top posts at 6, 12, and 24 hours to get an idea of the overall traffic patterns across all instances federated with dot world. I have several instance logins to help federate communities I create, but rarely use them. Sometimes I will use them to see if other instances have higher top post counts.
You’re SoCal? One of the things I do miss about the other place was the Los Angeles sub. The one here is practically non-existent.
I’m just off the beach as far south in OC as you can get. If I had bot skills I’d crank one out to make local work. I probably could figure it out, but don’t have the digital infra and footprint to make it and be sustainable. Given our scale here, we probably need to just use a Cali or PacCo.
Contrary to certain self-victimizing sentiments, I think that the problem is that the platform is more and more overtaken by the topic of the election (and Israel in reference thereto) and it just results in interminable arguing in circles that accomplishes nothing but wasting time. Regardless of the outcome of the election, I think less-annoying activity will increase afterwards.
A lot of users on here have an unhealthy obsession with bringing up awful events everywhere all the time - donating and raising awareness is good but turning every topic around to be about specific conflicts and political happenstance in a forum already saturated with that content isn’t encouraging for other people to engage and probably isn’t conducive to mental wellness either
The_piccard_manoeuvre is in holiday.
Well, my guess is people got depressed discussing who is the less genocidal candidate to govern the most military powerful country on Earth.
federated platform splits userbase into a million little fiefdoms, only somewhat interconnected, all differently starved for interaction
Yup, checks out
Instances run like communities with communities more like hashtags seem fine.
Eh, I usually just lurk, unless I have something meaningful to contribute (which is rare, my mind is blank and tired most of the time)
I’m trying to break my long habit of lurking, I’d like to see the platform grow so I help where I can
I’ve been wondering how much of that is back to school. I have the sense that Lemmy has a lot of younger users. I can’t judge though as I’ve been inactive for long stretches due to life. I’ve been trying to contribute more now
I always get the impression the average user is a millennial
Walking the dinosaur.
Was (not was) - Walk the dinosaur featured on the live action Flintstones movie.
Don’t worry, I’m still here
Depends on the instance. Hexbear, for example, is still quite active.
Down down to goblin town.
Also feel free to join !casualconversation@lemm.ee
Start of school breaks in some countries in Europe. Could have an impact as people are busy with their kids
i wonder how many ppl on lemmy have children
Just not getting the interesting questions as often afaict.
