Not sure if this is the right place to post, but when the reddit protests were happening, I used Lemmy for a bit then decided to detox from “social media” for a while till now. Am I misinterpreting the activity here?

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Users about halved in the ~3 months after the initial exile. It’s increased since then, but not yet to the point that it was at during the initial exodus.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Where the number at? I want to see for myself.

      This is so depressing. I thought this was gonna be a cool little bubble. The bubble just pops… :(

      I look at the reddit front page and everyone one in the comments are saying the posts on reddit are bot activity, which, at this point, I don’t doubt. Internet is dead. :(

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Why is it depressing? Plenty of quality conversation to engage in, less bots so far. Feels more like the forum days, I love it.

        • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.usEnglish
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          16 days ago

          The other thing is that I recall that kbin.social exploded and got a huge chuck of the exodus - but now that it’s been effectively dead for half a year, those users mostly seem to have vanished.

          A fraction clearly did migrate to other mbin and lemmy instances. It seems like the rest did not return to spez’s site from what I’m hearing (“all the posts I’m seeing there are complaining that only bots are active here”) but I’m not sure where they went. But for example, one person I was following seems to have dropped off entirely from the fediverse and all social media.

          • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
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            16 days ago

            I migrated from kbin. My experience on the instance I am using has been different, but I wasn’t a big user before. I actually feel like there are more posts on some major areas now than a year ago summer, but I dont know about wholesale usage.

            • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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              16 days ago

              We get a few 100+ proper discussion threads daily and people sharing goof information a lot of times. Kinda like what reddit used to be.

              Early on all was getting spammed endlessly with meme reposts.

        • kbal@fedia.io
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          16 days ago

          I thought maybe it was just my imagination that it’s been really slow since Wednesday, but you can see it clearly on the charts at the bottom of the page there.

      • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
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        15 days ago

        It’s still a cool bubble. The initial hype was bound to diminish, but it is still a cool little place. Has it’s own issues, but still. Here since the exodus, never looked back

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        It was an utter disaster in those first few months. I stuck it out only out of sheer stubbornness in not going back to Reddit. Lemmy.world was always down, federation was borked, it was just not ready for the big-time. Just what happens when your userbase balloons 30x inside of a month. Now we’re in a much better position to absorb new waves. The big thing is trying to get niche communities started on here - a bit of a arduous task. The mainstream communities are all pretty active at this point! And anything about Linux.

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Lol I remember lemmy.world got hacked and they put some weird “FBI Seized This” stuff on it. Also Lemmy shitpost had some um… illegal images or so I’ve been told. What a wild start.

          I love the piracy community. No need to fear corporate crackdowns for now. This place is awesome. Well awesome place for me to vent in, cuz of um… recent political events. :(

          I dont want to talk to people on reddit, seems like its just bots. I like how Lemmy has bot fiter applications on many instances. Fuck the bots.

          • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of issues early on. I’d completely forgotten about that particular incident. I think some of the instances had to wipe several weeks of their image caches over it. I forget what the exact solution was, but apparently there’s some technical aspect to preventing such things that’s been implemented now.

            dbzer0 is kind of ‘the’ piracy instance. Run by an anarchist, a good egg, db0.

            .world here is kind of the ‘normie’ instance, very left-wing by US standards, but centrist by European standards.

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          16 days ago

          And even if you DO post in small communities, half the time it’s a toss-up as to whether anyone will see it.

          I’m not sure about lemmy, but reddit was roughly 50% US users, so it was a good bet that if you timed posts for “early morning” US browsing or “after work” EU browsing, your post would do well.

          Idk lemmy’s demographic breakdown, but it seems more generalized (imagine that, a diverse fediverse!) around the world, so it’s hard for me to tell when the most users will be active.