I feel more bored nowadays…
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 placeWe 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.
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.
Just like the good old days. Check facebook book for the party and bounce. Long before algos and built in games.
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.
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.
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.
MY BAD, I’LL SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER (:
… I need to post more lol
i think the users might actually be slightly increasing but the doomerism is dominating
All redditors coming here
I find myself scrolling here less because of all the doomerism and bad news. It’s just exhausting to be bombarded with it all day.
I am a newcomer, lile only had an account for a monnth now, did it used to be more lively?
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
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?
That might also be because it’s been defederated from your instance.
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…
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
I think Fluxer is a better choice as a Discord alternative. The interface and paradigm are much better.
God no. It’s been a slow grind, but I think it’s growing!
Not sure about Lemmy, but I have noticed a very recent 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.
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 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.
No, not really
Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.
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
Hey now, no need to call me out so hard lol
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.
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.
Thanks, subscribed.
there’s plenty of comics content posted across a range of communities…
Make sure you’re following some fun stuff too. Otherwise it just gets depressing.
Personally I try to follow only fun stuff! Subscribed/Home feed for fun, All feed for doom and gloom.
Ooohhh smart
Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x
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… 👀)
You might like this post of mine
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 the Fediverse has grown while the rest of the internet has died a bit.
It does feel more active in certain communities, so there may be something to that.
They’re all on TikTok now.
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.
I’d still call it social media as the comments/discussions are pretty much the bread and butter of PieFed.
