The qualities swing and sway in various ways. Some days, it seems to be a giant wall of 'fuck trump/ice/anyone right of me.' Some days, it's horny memes and cat pics. Some days, it's 'I made bread today. It's delicious.'
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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It's too bad all the bread posts are the types that aren't delicious. Fucking sourdough has rotted the collective world's mind.
I'm on lemmy just to wait on the waiting list https://rhyme.com/ to be honest 🤷♂️
Sounds like an ad
Well stay on lemmy then 🤷♂️
Do you miss the bean posts?
Yes, i do
The what?
There are better examples but I'm struggling with the search.
Jeez, I think i joined right when this was dying, or something similar
Idk though, maybe it’s just me
i'm having a great time 
Good for you
why thank you, it's pretty awesome. i have almost completely cut out other social media at this point.
full of politics and tankieism has become more commonplace.
Not if you use filters and blocklists. This platform has been full of politics and porn since the first day. On day 2, I created a short filter list and blocked a few instances and communities and now I see absolutely 0 posts daily regarding it.
As for stagnant, that's what you get when you move to a platform that doesn't use an algorithm and ragebait to keep you engaged. For all the people that say they hate the manipulation used against them by the big platforms, they have been conditioned to want it and many move back or keep visiting while here. You can either choose to catch up on your feed here and then go touch grass or you can doomscroll reddit with the assurance that you'll never run out of psychologically tailored content to peruse.
As for stagnant, that’s what you get when you move to a platform that doesn’t use an algorithm and ragebait to keep you engaged.
I do wish they could make the 'hot' and 'active' calculations a little bit better. Hot quickly becomes 'scaled' after just a few pages, it seems, where older posts are very quickly pushed down.
I'm having a fantastic time running the kinds of communities I want to see and only browsing by subscribed.
If you want advice: Maybe unsubscribe from like the political memes communities and specifically join replacements which are better aligned to what you need. Some people are trying to make an effort.
If you want validation... I see shitty things here as well.
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What? You don't want to spend the whole day talking about things that you don't like and make you angry?
Are you sane?
I've curated my feed to things I find sensible. And yes Lemmy is slowing down. We just have to keep reasonable conversations going until the next reddit exodus and the cycle continues.
The tools are getting better, Lemmy 1.0 is in public beta. I don't think Lemmy is dying, just in a slump right now... And yes the userbase I mostly block is driving normies away. Which means less of the conversations I enjoy. So... Better tools!
The average American has the weirdest, silliest of takes. Go back to Reddit where Western imperialism is praised and political discourse is within your acceptable limits. 🙄
Or just block any community that discusses anything non-scientific seriously? Politics are an extension of ethics and ethical convos happen all the time, it's unavoidable if you discuss life and society.
The average American has the weirdest, silliest of takes
Are you calling me American?
this reminds me of im leaving reddit posts. when I left I did not post about it. I just left. now im here and i have blocked enough communities and users that its a fine experience for me. granted my instance does some blocking to so we will see if I ever get off my tuckus and move over to zip.
when I left I did not post about it. I just left.
You didn't post about leaving reddit because you didn't feel any need to.
I didn't post about leaving reddit because I got shadowbanned.
We are not the same.
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