I’ve seen a lot of violence posts coming from non us users. It seems there’s some kind of effort to incite the us into violence going on and I don’t like it one bit.

yeah it probably has—I honestly like it thought. I sometimes check it and scroll for a bit but it has really helped with the content addition caused by Reddit. I do not go to reddit unless a google search on a technical problem leads me there (only because the archived content is usually where answers are found).

Gotta build the community. This is not a bot driven Russian/american Propaganda machine. Its humans. A lot like forums from ye olden days, which were far better.

Real humans aren't posting click bait 2000 times a minute.

I post daily and have a fairly steady amount of up votes and comments. This time of year interaction dies down pretty noticeably. I used to think it was me and I was doing something wrong, but people are just doing spring stuff and not on here as much. They'll be back. There's a couple periods a year where it happens. It's just more noticeable here since we have less people.

People started yelling at each other more than on all the stuff I blocked on reddit, so I only check it every couple weeks now. I check back bc if it ends up 100% negative I'll delete it from my phone, but I still have hope ppl will be kinder

Ohh I actually thought I was the only one, it’s too quiet I kind of like quiet but maybe with time would fun like Reddit

It happens from time to time. Post and comment more.

Mbin has "loud" subscribing, which notifies you on any post added to a community (or posted by a user). I don't know if Lemmy has something similar, but that really worked wonders for me in making the fediverse feel more alive.

Hey now, no need to call me out so hard lol

Make sure you're following some fun stuff too. Otherwise it just gets depressing.

Follow your own link: it's back (in archive mode).

Why would you need any donations to create a community? It costs nothing, unless you are donating to your home instance.

The devs seem happy with Lenny not growing and the numbers seem to indicate that Lemmy isn't growing unless brought on by an external source.

I’ve noticed I spend less time on Lemmy than I did on Reddit. Some of that may have to do with content, but I think it’s mostly Lemmy isn’t manipulating what I’m looking at to keep the dopamine hits coming. It definitely feels like withdrawal at times.

I am learning to appreciate the joy of opening Lemmy after I checked it a few hours ago and not seeing anything new and having the freedom to close the app again.

Personally I try to follow only fun stuff! Subscribed/Home feed for fun, All feed for doom and gloom.

Original admin went AWOL, other admin couldn't access server. Second admin couldn't get ahold of first admin, eventually server went down. Second admin started new NSFW instance.

Then they somehow got everything back (maybe original admin replied to messages), and so the old site went up again as an archive.

To be frank the overwhelming amount of trump news is starting to make me feel drained
I should post some art on the furry communities to cheer up the place

Yeah, it keeps me honest. If there’s nothing more to look at, I’m more apt to pick up a book or work on the side project more.

They're all on TikTok now.

Maybe, just maybe there's some kind of reason why people from other countries hate the US more, recently?

I am a newcomer, lile only had an account for a monnth now, did it used to be more lively?

God no. It’s been a slow grind, but I think it’s growing!

We don’t have enough small speciality communities yet unfortunately. Bring the furries and the cheer. I miss all the professional/trade subs. Don’t see many of them active on here.

Just like the good old days. Check facebook book for the party and bounce. Long before algos and built in games.

Real human posting live from the toilet once a day

Start a community you are interested in too!

Absolutely not we’re GRRRRREAT!

And then stomped in the nuts!

Not only do you find interesting stuff you actually find real people engaging with it, which is better than just a bunch of bot comments

I mean, duh?

I was here since June 12, 2023 (this is not my first account)...

I feel like there was an explosion at the beginning, then it dropped to like half of the activity...

Then it just slowly and slowly declining till like this past month or so when it just had a sharp crash

I guess this place is too ML-Adjacent that normies didn't wanna deal with it...

I mean they probably didn't even learn of the block function and just saw the front page and noped out lol

Pls stay tho... I hate authoritarians so much, I don't wanna deal with dictators like reddit

Yeah, I really want my friends and family to switch over to Pixfed from instagram/facebook.

I feel like it will be eventually easier to get my close friends to switch over to matrix form discord though. I feel like "real" people dont post on instagram anymore anyways and it's all just influencers and corporations

Thats good enough, thank you for the info.

Interesting, thank you!

I joined a few of the equivalents to my usual subreddits.

No posts in like 3 years on most of them. It's lively enough on the tech and meme pages, but nobody here seems to have the same hobbies as me. Hell even /trees is dead, do none of y'all smoke weed?

I noticed it too with the upvotes on my content. A few weeks ago my predictions when I hit a certain mark of upvotes were pretty accurate, but now the amount of upvotes in the first 12h dropped notably.

Your mention of spring sound like a plausible reasoning to me.

That might also be because it's been defederated from your instance.

Ooohhh smart

I'm new to this whole thing, are you saying if I was on another instance I would see more posts from some subs and less from others?

Never even seen weed irl...

Absolutely this. I banned the big platforms from my phone and only use Fediverse apps now. When I opened Instagram it kinda felt like when I had a relapse and became flooded with sadness, rage and Weltschmerz. Here I check for a couple of minutes, still my conditioning to reach for scrolling and move on with my day.

And whenever I write a comment here I'm not scared to regret it soon after.

Not sure about Lemmy, but I have noticed an influx in loops.video content recently, especially in my native language. That's probably because Loops is starting to be usable now. There's some YouTubers I already followed and even some local progressive politicians. This year a project named "digital day of independence" started, that educates people every month about how to switch from big tech, which probably also has something to do with it.

Give me an example of the drama posts? Interesting, maybe it's me?

I think Fluxer is a better choice as a Discord alternative. The interface and paradigm are much better.

MY BAD, I'LL SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER (:

... I need to post more lol

I used to discuss it with the people on c/fedigrow because it would bum me out. I thought I had upset people somehow.

They reminded me of things like spring break from school and people doing family things and all that. I don't have kids or close family, so a lot of that kind of thing slips my mind that others have to do things in relation to that.

And once you see they do eventually come back, you get used to it.

I’ve been here for about two years (just on a different instance now). I feel it has actually grown quite a bit since I first started, but the niche communities are dying rapidly while the main communities grow. As someone who participated in a lot of niche communities on Reddit before Apollo went offline, I really feel kinda lost. I really hope people put more effort into those communities and hope those who are still on Reddit while using Lemmy encourage frustrated users to join us here.

I would feel the same as you if I were the only poster in the communities. But as there is at least one other (MentalEdge) and the dent is similar, I don't need to worry (about my quality; but still if the community as a whole is running fine if they don't come back after a while).

I think the Fediverse has grown while the rest of the internet has died a bit.

I post funny animations to !animation@piefed.social sometimes, and there's !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz for some other fun stuff :D

There's also !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe.