Ask Lemmy

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

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

I honestly don't mind. Before this was the replacement go to site after the API fiasco elsewhere. Now I feel like coming on here only makes me sad and depressed; so I stopped coming on here even though I was mostly a lurker. I stopped getting any enjoyment from browsing the internet or my old internet hobbies.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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?

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

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

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

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%.