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.
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 to my knowledge, Lemmy is built to avoid all that
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 parasitized the rest of the internet coming here to churn it into a fucking cesspool of idiocy.
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.
Lemmy has lost that funny spark and energy, but it’s because of the weird niche user base. Other platforms don’t all have this problem.
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 t think anywhere online features people who are good at picking up on sarcasm.
I think it’s a North American thing. Canadians / Americans are shit at picking up on it irl too
Nope, I keep finding new communities every day.
You can change the sorting to show the new posts. You can also change the list to show posts from all communities from all federated instances (except from banned ones). I mostly find very recent posts.
i’m good, thanks for asking! all healthy here!
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?
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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.
@uri@infosec.pub
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.
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.
I have specifically blocked news and politics and still find enough content to never run out when I’m bored at work
Unfortunately we can’t filter out all the Americans but once you block and filter all the US communities and US politics communities it is quite usable and active enough to browse Hot or Top Day or what you choose. It’s not enough to browse constantly all day long but once or twice a day.
reddit is too, I’ve heard…
When did you see the most activity here?
When you block the political communities, all you see is good content.
When you block memes communities you realize how much lemmy is concentrated on very few topics
block memes communities
What are you some kind of monster?
Memes makes us lazy instead of thinking well then write some pertinent well written content people just use a meme. I enjoy memes from time to time but I don’t want to see dozens every days
Why those guy on the left looks very sad and the one of the right looks so emotionless. Are all memes lovers looking like that?
The problem is that Lemmy also has no news communities, because they are all just tankie campgrounds.
Come to a space created by communists then proceeds to cry about communists
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.
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
i don’t think so. it appears to be growing tbh.
