I feel more bored nowadays...

Yes, I noticed this too. Especially a few days ago it became quiet. Mostly news bots.

Weirdly 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.

The mods are dicks and are pushing agendas to kill the normal things you love.

Maybe you should subscribe to different communities then. Or contact the admins to see if the mods can be replaced.

Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x

Not me, but it's important to remember that Lemmy doesn't just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.

My experience is the opposite actually. I do browse All on Lemmy though just to be able to surface interesting stuff.

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... 👀)

Not sure just joined I like the speed more than reddit.

I have noticed a change. It seems to coincide with the lemmynsfw.com disappearing, but im not attributing it to that, or the timing. I seem to recall another server disappearing around then.

Has there been a reduction in active users?

*quiet

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.

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...)

Do you filter keywords? I filter a lot of keywords, so now my feed is a lot quieter because of it. It’s also a lot nicer, and I don’t spend as much time on here as I used to.

And don’t worry, you’ll find some other new way to procrastinate. 🤣

It's quiet on gemini protocol too...

Nsfw 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.

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.

I find the social media (piefed and mastodon) I use are busy enough to keep me entertained, not too busy to make me addictated.

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.

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!

As for why, I don't know.

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..

You might like this post of mine

https://lemmy.world/post/33522250

Yeah instead of selectively subscribing like on Reddit the strategy here is to selectively block

lemm.ee went

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.

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.

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.

That the great thing about decentralization, you could start a new community on a different instance without those mods and admins.

Same. 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.

I feel like being bored on social media isn't a bad thing, I'm more in and out than I was on reddit and it doesn't consume as much of my time, but I still feel like the same mental itch of news and content is scratch, which for me is a good thing.

Fedinsfw.app

Um…. No because today is he most replies I’ve received on the platform. I guess you get what you put in. :)

Nah, I'm just checking it more often, which is a sign I need to take some preventative corrections towards my mental health now that I think of it

Yeah, whoever is posting this pro violence content should get punched in the face

I don't mind it being quiet, quite the opposite. Which is another reason why I’ve been filtering the heck out of the Fediverse since I’ve started using it (most of the content shared is mere noise to me).

That being said, I've noticed a somewhat reduced activity without having changed my filtering in any way. That's even more obvious in my small French part of the Fediverse. It just feels a tad quieter.

Is it losing users? Are people just learning to keep quiet? No idea.

It's not great, because I would like to see the Fediverse become a real alternative to those centralized services, even if that means I would have to filter out a lot more noise, but I'm also fine with the idea that the Fediverse may never succeed in becoming one such alternative. Like I’m fine with barely anyone reaching me through MP or through my personal blog anymore. This just seems to not be a thing anymore but it doesn’t prevent me from blogging or to participate in discussions around here ;)

It has been a few years already I have made up my mind that I needed to not rely on anything for my personal use (I'm not talking banks and key services like that, just online services, cloud, social medias, Uber or even my own blog for that matters, little things like that) or to not evcen need a computer at all to keep myself busy.

I don’t mind using them (at least those that do respect my privacy) but I also would not feel devastated if they were to vanish or, but that would obviously be a very unrealistic take, if a law was to pass making it mandatory to use my real name online (which is no secret, I have used it for many years, it’s just that I’ve grown used to being ‘Libb’), or one that would make it mandatory to prove I’m 18+ to be allowed to boot ‘my’ computer... Well, if something that absurd was to ever happen, I would simply stop bothering with those online services and would stop using my suddenly not so ‘personal’ computer anymore.

I would probably would keep using one for work (it’s not that obvious, as I already write longhand) but I would not spend a cent more on online services for my personal usage and would not buy any ‘personal’ device anymore.

But I digress. What was your question? Sure, I’ve noticed some quietness going on too. Maybe we should all try harder than we already do to post more? As an incentive? I doubt it would change much, to be perfectly honest.

I don’t really feel it, but I think that’s because I’m not on all the time. I’m often busy with real life, so I just come on when I have extra downtime. There’s definitely an ebb and flow. None of that matters to me though. I’m all in for the Fediverse 100%.

Same time or very close to?

there's plenty of comics content posted across a range of communities...

How dare you come for c/dull_mens_club like that

I’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 but if I was I would agree with you. I also don't post any, and was not banned from anywhere: I left reddit the moment 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 what 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.

Edit: clarifications.

Nah, .ee closed down mid last year. And most of its users moved to .zip or piefed.

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.

And beg for donation like nsfw till you all annoy me enough to ghost? Lol ha im ahead of you.

Oh no! Not the totally normal things I love!

Settle down bibi.

The problem is that I'm enjoying it and want to consume more than is there.

I might actually start posting instead of just commenting. It's horrible.

I think it’s because I enjoy it more and there’s no algorithm that will make me scroll through the already read messages? I may be wrong but that’s what I think.

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.