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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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I honestly think that the whole internet is in decline.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Maybe the whole age verification thing is keeping people offline.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's perhaps the greatest tragedy of my lifetime, I'm truly not exaggerating. We went from the free sharing of the majority of human knowledge to forcing people to sell their souls for YouTube money.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm not in a country with the age verification thing, but has it been turned on for Lemmy servers?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Right, but I'm assuming there's a nontrivial number of UK users.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well there's an amount, but it wouldn't have much impact on the Fediverse as there's no age-ID here.

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