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Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca [S] 10 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Maybe the whole age verification thing is keeping people offline.

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[–] BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca [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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[–] BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca [S] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I feel the same way. I was a CS major in the early 80s. I watched the internet become something amazing, and then I watched it rot. Heartbreaking.

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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

we are, right now, part of the un-rotting

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[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca [S] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't know, but I was thinking it might be causing people to be less online generally, even if Lemmy itself isn't a problem. I wonder what the Lemmy NSFW people are doing.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know of any servers that have started to verify ages, but some have started to geoblock countries whose laws require it.

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[–] artiman@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

no

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[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 points 1 year ago

UK user here, several big lemmy instances are unavailable for me apart from when I'm on erm holiday

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's just UK currently

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca [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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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 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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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Therefore to comply, the server would relocate or go offline.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago*

Lemmy.zip is the only notable instance to have done this. Mostly because the owner is based in the UK.

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