I joined during the first Reddit exodus, and it seemed like for ages the amount of Lemmy content was generally increasing (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but overall increasing). Now it seems that when I sort by New, I get through everything since my last visit much more quickly than I used to. Is that my imagination, or is the activity declining?

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[–] Ypsilenna@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I recently re-joined Lemmy, so I am not sure how it changed, but I am mostly a Mastodon user and I noticed that people were flooding it in large quantities when something stupid happened on Twitter (again), and then leaving it after a short while to go back to Twitter or quitting social media altogether. I would suspect that people either started going back to Reddit, or decided to get a mental health break from the internet as a whole (which wouldn't surprise me, the internet is pretty depressing lately).

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

The world is a pretty depressing place lately.

[–] ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This fits my profile. I actively browsed and contributed to Lemmy for about 4 months following the US inauguration, but all the useful stuff I want is still on Reddit and Twitter. I still look at Lemmy around once per week, but honestly it seems like there's a lot more political rage bait and not as much in the way of niche community content.

[–] Ypsilenna@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can relate to that. Most of the info I usually need from Reddit is about gaming, and the majority of games I play aren't even mentioned here. I also agree on the political ragebait part. I narrow my feed down to the communities I follow only, because the moment I use "All", I get a lot of these.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Games genre communities (!jrpg@lemmy.zip ) are doing okay, game-specific communities are probably too niche for now yet.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 22 hours ago

yeah, talk about all jrpgs in that community until it's busy enough to subdivide