I mean I don’t see much activity outside politics. Edit: As you all mentioned I’ll try blocking some political and news communities and try to find some new communities.
In my opinion, it’s much more alive than it was back then reddit killed third party applications
It’s enough for me, I guess.
im taking a shit
Where are you taking it to?
So am I!
People gave Lemmy a try and went back to Reddit because it offers more content and interactions.
Its about the same as i remember it being like 2.5 yrs ago tbh, which is actually a good thing… it still feels very community like unlike reddit in which the amount of activity is just so insane that you cant really participate on major subreddits, and the amount of bots are just insane….
I think what happened with lemmy is that during the whole reddit API saga a lot of people were furious and hurried to any platform they found good, and specifically in lemmy… it started getting popular with a particular type of demographic which u see popular today, however there was also some courtesy and acceptance that was lost, there was a lot of “holier than thou” attitude going around which is actually a big part of the reason why i nuked my old and quite active account here (which i regret tbh coz i did have some very good discussions), but i think that ended up alienating a lot of people that might have chosen lemmy over alternatives during that time
As of now it seems pretty fine tho, the voices do seem a bit more varied or atleast nuanced, but people just no longer are rushing to quit reddit now, and the base seems stable, the upvotes comments i see now r the same i used to see 1.5 years ago…
Nope, I keep finding new communities every day.
reddit is too, I’ve heard…
No. I have blocked most politics- and news-communities and I get plenty of content and discussions.
Same, I’ve blocked every single news and politics and it’s bustling
Why don’t lemmy still not let us to block all communities with politic in name
Same. Its beautiful and the number one feature for me.
Maybe you need to follow more communities.
Tbf most people are just lurkers. So it is theoretically possible that we have bigger community on something, but very low traffic.
Which communities do you most recommend or enjoy?
Check out this feed of communities NOT focused on politics, tech, or memes: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
And here’s a feed of meme/humor-oriented communities NOT focused on politics or tech: https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
There are plenty of others, those are just the ones I like.
Guess I’ll also move to a piefed instance. Do you know any instance that has good moderation and does not relay on cloudflare.
I think all piefed instances rely on cloudflare, tho the recent downtime made em start thinking of how to do otherwise. I keep my old lemmy accounts around in case I need them. e.g. lemmy on slrpnk.net worked OK bc they don’t use cloudflare.
https://piefed.blahaj.zone/ does not
Interesting, I can’t seem to find highsignal when I search in Voyager.
Edit: Nevermind, Voyager doesn’t do feeds. I didn’t realize it was a thing.
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I‘ve been seeing similar comments pop up a few times already and it always confuses me. Aside from some niche interests, lemmy feels very much alive to me and there are plenty of discussions to join.
Some people wanted it to immediately get huge…
Just so it can have all the other issues big social media has.
They didn’t want something different, they wanted to be an “early adapter” of the next reddit.
Well I’m a fediverse user for years now. I once hosted my own Lemmy instance.
I kinda don’t see much content nowadaysBut what is missing? What’s your sort order? Hot or scaled work really well for me. Are you just looking at everything or did you pick communities to follow? How do you discover new communities?
I go to the all feed and follow through rss. Discovering communities is a issue that i can’t find sollution
I saw a post asking the same thing the day I joined lemmy dot world with my first account.
That was a couple years ago now. I think I’m on my third instance?
No way, i get my best memes here.
Got some recommendations? I’m always looking for more places
Here’s a dump of all the meme and meme-like communities I’ve subscribed to. Are some of the better than others? Absolutely. Do some of them have memes I don’t like? Absolutely. Are some of them even dead? Probably. But I see funny memes, I hit subscribe. Also I browse All regularly to discover new stuff.
Personally if you’ve not checked out the science_memes one there’s some real bangers there.
- https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes
- https://lemmy.world/c/microblogmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/politicalmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/science_memes@mander.xyz
- https://lemmy.world/c/funny@sh.itjust.works
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@sopuli.xyz
- https://lemmy.world/c/linuxmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- https://lemmy.world/c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
- https://lemmy.world/c/tenforward
- https://lemmy.world/c/NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz
- https://lemmy.world/c/196
- https://lemmy.world/c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- https://lemmy.world/c/dadjokes
- https://lemmy.world/c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- https://lemmy.world/c/sigh_fi@quokk.au
- https://lemmy.world/c/lotrmemes@midwest.social
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@slrpnk.net
- https://lemmy.world/c/simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works
- https://lemmy.world/c/risa@startrek.website
- https://lemmy.world/c/nsfwmemes@lemmynsfw.com
- https://lemmy.world/c/funny@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@midwest.social
- https://lemmy.world/c/surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works
- https://lemmy.world/c/startrekmemes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@yiffit.net
- https://lemmy.world/c/dankmemes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/lotrmemes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/engineeringmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
I’m sure not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve been getting a kick out of Anti Meme lately.
It’s growing and is a good place to contribute to honest discussion, from what I can see; I’d like to take the opportunity to compare such comments as these to something akin to MMORPG discussions.
I don’t know if there’s a complete term for the idea but saying “X online community is dying” in MMORPG communities can fuel their own death spirals as others see it and also begin to believe the game has a shrinking community and therefore will be an empty lot not worthy of your time.
I would advise that if you like what you see here, contribute and help make the communities you like flourish than contribute to a perceived decline.
Bonus points if anyone thinks I’m clever. :S
No
I have specifically blocked news and politics and still find enough content to never run out when I’m bored at work
Feels active to me… but I usually subscribe and participate in communities I want to follow and then browse my Lemmy Subscribed page. Rarely look at the All page, it gets annoying scrolling through tons of posts about topics I have no interest in.
