There is not much getting posted, it is becoming emptier and emptier.
It feels like that party where I was one of the first people in, then people came and it was cool, and then suddenly it’s nearly empty.
He has such a way with words…
It seems fine overall. Some communities do need to be revived with new posts. Do you browse on All>New or something else?
I had that problem when I kept it at “Top 6 hours”. I realize some of the subs were not populating with anything. I’ve since changed it to Hot, and it looks like it’s good.
New Comments is a good one, too.
I’m on here way too much and haven’t noticed any decline other than right after the huge influx from Reddit.
Generally if you have to ask something as hyperbolic as is it dying then it isn’t. Sub to more comms. Scroll through All.
There’s a lot getting posted, but niche communities are indeed getting less popular. The big blocker for Lemmy getting popular is the ability to group communities together (the most popular proposal is communities being able to follow eachother which would be amazing).
Until then, it’ll always feel kind of difficult to navigate when there are 5 communities with the same name, and it’s not clear which one is the popular/best one. Most of my posts are crossposts, there’s no way to get around that if you want to get a bigger audience. I think the reason you’re not seeing a lot of content is because it’s not clear where the content is, and a lot of good stuff has less than 5 upvotes because nobody knows that community yet.
But no, I don’t think it’s dying. There’s a pretty healthy and nice community here, but we are waiting on an important feature to make life here so much easier and attract more people.
Agreed on community follows, as - IMO - it would do so much to fix the scattering of discussions. Instead of having 5 posts of the same link, each with only one or two comments, you would have only one post with all the comments.
This could solve not only the lack of activity problem, but also the duplication of posts on the frontpage.
It’s unfortunate that the child porn has started to creep in.
It’s not dying, it just suffers from the mentality of “we’re preemptively using our ‘last resort’ of defederating from a community because we think they might possibly cause some kind of problem, maybe, but we don’t want to even give them that chance.” Maybe make an account on a less confused instance. You might just be getting nannied harder than you want.
I browse all and I would say there’s more content now than when I joined. It’s much easier to find content where actual discussion is happening too
I think that’s a you thing. Seems lively as ever to me
I find it to be the exact opposite
Things are looking great on my feed, seeing a ton of interesting stuff. Browsing masto a bit as well.
I browse all, mostly. Many of the niche communities have been pretty empty, but many others have been about as active as some smaller subreddits I used to follow.
Nope it’s not. Seems fine to me. Indeed plenty of content. Someone said you might be subscribed to smaller communities
I’m not saying we need to blow up and get inundated with the masses, but sometimes it takes an event to kick things up a notch or two. Ideally a positive event, but something noteworthy to get people’s attention.
I don’t visit that site which shall not be named anymore, but I never visited it for memes or politics etc or because I had any particular affinity for the platform. I went there for the niche forums it had and if they exist here, they are empty.
I’m optimistic and I think we’ll have that event.
Try subbing to other communities, might be you’re subbed to stuff that kinda died off.
There’s way more content than when I joined a few months ago, try scrolling through all
