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.
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.
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
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Same. Its beautiful and the number one feature for me.
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
When did you see the most activity here?
No way, i get my best memes here.
Got some recommendations? I’m always looking for more places
I’m sure not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve been getting a kick out of Anti Meme lately.
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
Can it technically die assuming some people still remain active and continue to use its protocols or whatever?
Its not centralized in a way it even can die in a guranteeable way. Like if Reddit closed down, there would be competitors popping up but Reddit itself the servers would cease to function and it would be dead but Lemmy is built to avoid that
i’m good, thanks for asking! all healthy here!
I know people have posted user stats now and then. More like stagnant at the moment. Slow growth would be ideal. I’m not interested in gaining mass appeal tbh.
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.
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.
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
I believe Lemmy itself is shrinking. Last I checked Fediverse Observer, it was on a downward trend (although not drastically). That said, that excludes PieFed. I think when including PieFed we’re probably growing (very) slowly.
I remember years ago when I was just an account-less lurker on lemmy. I’d only check in once a week, and still half the posts were the same ones I saw last week.
Things have changed a lot since then, and I don’t think we’ll ever get back down to those levels; but I’d still use lemmy even if it did.
im taking a shit
Where are you taking it to?
No.
slowly yes
Yeah. Lemmy’s former growth came from external events which brought users to Lemmy. Without more of these shocks, I don’t see Lemmy growing.
I don’t have a problem with that.
The last thing I want is all of the propaganda and barely literate morons that have parasites the rest of the internet coming here to churn it into a fucking cesspool of idiocy.
You’re making the common mistake of believing that newcomers are somehow dumber than the ones who have been here a while.
No, Lemmy/piefed has a deep user base of people knowledgeable about Linux, programming, Star Wars, and a few other topics, but plenty of other topics still leave a lot to be desired.
For example, I’ve noticed that Lemmy’s userbase is probably below the internet average at picking up on satire and sarcasm.
I do wish it was as funny as a younger reddit, I used to be bowled over reading comments. I fesr we have lost a spark from all the fuckery of the world.
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