There is not much getting posted, it is becoming emptier and emptier.
It feels like that party where I was one of the first people in, then people came and it was cool, and then suddenly it’s nearly empty.
Maybe it’s what you are subscribed to? If anything I see an increase in content
Which active communities are you subscribed to? I could definitely use some suggestions.
Both piracy communities
Gaming, technology, jokes and humor @beehaw
Worldnews@lemmy.world
A bunch from Mander.xyz, the science based instance
He has such a way with words…
It seems fine overall. Some communities do need to be revived with new posts. Do you browse on All>New or something else?
The activity spike is subsiding, but I’m still finding more than enough to engage with. When I don’t, I switch over to posting the content I want to see more of.
The fediverse doesn’t have advertising, it’s 100% word of mouth, and that isn’t at critical mass yet. People who stuck with reddit aren’t hearing about it anymore, as those of us who are getting behind the fediverse are no longer there to tell them about it.
But mainstream social media will fuck up again. And every time more and more people will end up on the fediverse. Each time, the fediverse gets more and more users, meaning it becomes more and more appealing for the next wave to stick around.
It’s slow, but unless commercial social media makes some significant changes in how it treats its users, the change will only pick up speed. But it will take years, yet.
I’m on here way too much and haven’t noticed any decline other than right after the huge influx from Reddit.
Generally if you have to ask something as hyperbolic as is it dying then it isn’t. Sub to more comms. Scroll through All.
I had that problem when I kept it at “Top 6 hours”. I realize some of the subs were not populating with anything. I’ve since changed it to Hot, and it looks like it’s good.
“Top 6 hours”??? Jumps back to main page … OOOHHH There’s new sorting options! Thanks!
I find it to be the exact opposite
It’s not dying, it just suffers from the mentality of “we’re preemptively using our ‘last resort’ of defederating from a community because we think they might possibly cause some kind of problem, maybe, but we don’t want to even give them that chance.” Maybe make an account on a less confused instance. You might just be getting nannied harder than you want.
There’s a lot getting posted, but niche communities are indeed getting less popular. The big blocker for Lemmy getting popular is the ability to group communities together (the most popular proposal is communities being able to follow eachother which would be amazing).
Until then, it’ll always feel kind of difficult to navigate when there are 5 communities with the same name, and it’s not clear which one is the popular/best one. Most of my posts are crossposts, there’s no way to get around that if you want to get a bigger audience. I think the reason you’re not seeing a lot of content is because it’s not clear where the content is, and a lot of good stuff has less than 5 upvotes because nobody knows that community yet.
But no, I don’t think it’s dying. There’s a pretty healthy and nice community here, but we are waiting on an important feature to make life here so much easier and attract more people.
Agreed on community follows, as - IMO - it would do so much to fix the scattering of discussions. Instead of having 5 posts of the same link, each with only one or two comments, you would have only one post with all the comments.
This could solve not only the lack of activity problem, but also the duplication of posts on the frontpage.
I had to block like five communities for political propaganda spam, but now they they’re gone it’s feeling pretty alright again.
Curious, which communities did you end up blocking?
I don’t even remember, I just went down the list and anything /r/politics esque I saw I blocked the community and the user
It’s unfortunate that the child porn has started to creep in.
Nearly everday I see a post with over 1000 upvotes. For such a niche platform I would say it is very populated and active. I enjoy the population lemmy is at. I can recognize posters on lemmy. It reminds me of reddit when it was first getting popular
I do know that Facebook is definitely dead. (I know, I know, I’m old, and used to have a lot of friends posting there.) Even if the handful of FB friends who still post things have posted, I log in and get one new post from some random page I liked, often the same top post as yesterday, a slate of those dumbass Reels featuring prominent tiddies (maybe they know what I like, or maybe they don’t, because I’ve never watched one), a post that I actually want to see, then 3 or 4 “Suggested for You” posts in a row. Yesterday, they cut off the Messenger Lite app, so that’s the end of it for me. No way I’m going to install the full Messenger app, which asks for all the permissions, including knowing my shoe size and defecatory habits.
There’s currently plenty of activity on Lemmy to keep me occupied.
I browse all and I would say there’s more content now than when I joined. It’s much easier to find content where actual discussion is happening too
I’m not saying we need to blow up and get inundated with the masses, but sometimes it takes an event to kick things up a notch or two. Ideally a positive event, but something noteworthy to get people’s attention.
I don’t visit that site which shall not be named anymore, but I never visited it for memes or politics etc or because I had any particular affinity for the platform. I went there for the niche forums it had and if they exist here, they are empty.
I’m optimistic and I think we’ll have that event.
It would probably have helped if all the news orgs shitting on reddit during the peak of the shitstorm had mentioned so much as a single alternative platform. But basically all of them were written as if reddit was all there was and the users were angry, but not even close to abandoning it.
Well, here’s to the future. May the fediverse get more coverage, because it sure doesn’t have an advertising budget. And that’s a good thing.
Word.
The average person doesn’t seek shit out. They wait until it’s fed to them and then may occasionally decide to participate out of fomo.
What really surprised me is that some of the communities I enjoyed pretty much universally carried on as if nothing happened. Maybe I’m weird, but I can’t support the bullshit they pulled. Thankful for the alternative and hope to see it flourish.
