The participation seems way down recently. What did I miss?
The irony is that those those that aren’t here can’t answer why they left.
Mostly making sure I didn’t miss some new drama thing or whatnot. Usually those have peripheral observers that will speak up. Friday nights (SoCal) are kinda hit or miss anyways, but we’ve been trending down a good bit recently.
You’re SoCal? One of the things I do miss about the other place was the Los Angeles sub. The one here is practically non-existent.
I’m just off the beach as far south in OC as you can get. If I had bot skills I’d crank one out to make local work. I probably could figure it out, but don’t have the digital infra and footprint to make it and be sustainable. Given our scale here, we probably need to just use a Cali or PacCo.
Contrary to certain self-victimizing sentiments, I think that the problem is that the platform is more and more overtaken by the topic of the election (and Israel in reference thereto) and it just results in interminable arguing in circles that accomplishes nothing but wasting time. Regardless of the outcome of the election, I think less-annoying activity will increase afterwards.
A lot of users on here have an unhealthy obsession with bringing up awful events everywhere all the time - donating and raising awareness is good but turning every topic around to be about specific conflicts and political happenstance in a forum already saturated with that content isn’t encouraging for other people to engage and probably isn’t conducive to mental wellness either
Well, my guess is people got depressed discussing who is the less genocidal candidate to govern the most military powerful country on Earth.
Eh, I usually just lurk, unless I have something meaningful to contribute (which is rare, my mind is blank and tired most of the time)
I’m trying to break my long habit of lurking, I’d like to see the platform grow so I help where I can
federated platform splits userbase into a million little fiefdoms, only somewhat interconnected, all differently starved for interaction
Yup, checks out
Instances run like communities with communities more like hashtags seem fine.
I’ve been wondering how much of that is back to school. I have the sense that Lemmy has a lot of younger users. I can’t judge though as I’ve been inactive for long stretches due to life. I’ve been trying to contribute more now
I always get the impression the average user is a millennial
Walking the dinosaur.
Was (not was) - Walk the dinosaur featured on the live action Flintstones movie.
Don’t worry, I’m still here
Was immensely busy and focused to finish my university meanwhile trying to get bit of peace through reading books and gaming.
Also nowadays mainly use rss-feed for everything (Blogs, News, Reddit and Lemmy).
Down down to goblin town.
Just not getting the interesting questions as often afaict.
Just for me personally - I’ve tried going back to traditional forums. It’s irritating that when I sign up and contribute to a board a few times, I get a temp ban for potentially being a bot
The entire front page is filled with Trump sneezing. Psyop is too obvious.
Depends on the instance. Hexbear, for example, is still quite active.
Shii idk what u talkin about i deleted my old reddits and migrated fully 😁
