I feel like there used to be many more posts on my feed… I hope I’m imagining it…
Lemmy has minuscule portion of users compared to mainstream social media. It doesn’t mean it’s dead.
i feel as if I’m seeing more engagement on posts sometimes, so i would say no
numbers seem to disagree
Dead, no, stagnant, yes.
Throwing this out there in case you are just scrolling through “all”:
Your instance is small and you won’t see content from communities no one on your instance has subscribed to. An example:
I see posts from a community on “all” that I haven’t subsribed to, but someone on my instance has subsscribed to said community. Otherwise we on sopuli would not be fetching updates from those communities and I wouldn’t see it on “all”.
There is a project (forgot name) that makes bots on instance subscribe to new communities from an instance but not sure if it’s still working/set up on your instance.
Not that I can see
Subscribe to more communities
!trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe is good for finding new ones
Edit: Although the bot seems to have stopped posting recently, maybe it’s moved?
I came across in the big Reddit migration and while I loved the idea, it felt like every third post was about the meta or Reddit. I ended up dropping all social media. A few months ago I started passively reading Reddit again and as many predicted, the whole vibe is just off. So I began checking back here a bit and it’s a bit closer to what I want now. It feels like there is a bit less going on than back then, and I’m totally okay with that.
Be active and be what you want to see. This is a community driven system and you will get a lot more out of a community by participating over just observing.
A bit, yes. BUT I go away for a few months and then return to Lemmy with full force. When I’m active here it feels like an active space, when I’m not active, it feels a lil dead.
So the issue is more about the way you engage with the community.
Also I think Lemmy data is available. Posts per month, users etc.
Add more channels (?) I mean, I preferred passive consumption of content too. But in lemmy, there needs to be more posters.
Not even kind of.
I want a digest I can read for ten minutes a day, rather than spend six hours churning through a hellhole.
I have a life to live.
Okay, valid. I don’t, so that makes sense.
It feels newborn, if anything. Like 30-40% of comments I see are from users < 30 days old.
<30 days old means nothing.
Lemmy users are more paranoid about government, could be just using discarding their accounts often.
I’ve been on lemmy since the reddit API thing, but this account is only 2 months because I’ve tried quitting lemmy a few times, and I failed because I’m bored and I need a soapbox to vent.
it feels like early reddit. a lot of the same style and content. and a lot of replies in threads that are trying way too hard to be edgelordy but just seem crude and naive.
I sort by new and hide anything read so I always get the freshest stuff. I like that there is a limit so I am more likely to close the app and so some reading or learning rather then scroll forever.
Definitely. Really nice to “run out” of posts to remember to actually close my app once in awhile.
View all and block what you’re not interested in, that way you automatically get to see all the new stuff.
Eh, its more alive than like ham radios or Meshtastic. More alive than Briar’s Public Forums. Good enough I guess 🤷♂️
I know I am. Spooky, huh?
Nah, seems like it’s growing week after week.
