No way, i get my best memes here.

No. I have blocked most politics- and news-communities and I get plenty of content and discussions.

Maybe you need to follow more communities.

It's growing and is a good place to contribute to honest discussion, from what I can see; I'd like to take the opportunity to compare such comments as these to something akin to MMORPG discussions.

I don't know if there's a complete term for the idea but saying "X online community is dying" in MMORPG communities can fuel their own death spirals as others see it and also begin to believe the game has a shrinking community and therefore will be an empty lot not worthy of your time.

I would advise that if you like what you see here, contribute and help make the communities you like flourish than contribute to a perceived decline.

Bonus points if anyone thinks I'm clever. :S

No

I have specifically blocked news and politics and still find enough content to never run out when I'm bored at work

Feels active to me.. but I usually subscribe and participate in communities I want to follow and then browse my Lemmy Subscribed page. Rarely look at the All page, it gets annoying scrolling through tons of posts about topics I have no interest in.

I think it's waiting for some new event that will drive a lot of people away from Reddit again to achieve critical mass and finally outgrow Reddit.

In the meantime, I'm trying to keep my little corner of Lemmy alive - my dinky little special-interest communities - so that those who don't want to partake in the big Reddit equivalents know they have alternatives on here that are not stale.

I remember years ago when I was just an account-less lurker on lemmy. I'd only check in once a week, and still half the posts were the same ones I saw last week.

Things have changed a lot since then, and I don't think we'll ever get back down to those levels; but I'd still use lemmy even if it did.

In my opinion, it’s much more alive than it was back then reddit killed third party applications

It’s enough for me, I guess.

I never see anything related to politics and just feel things getting better.

Follow things you care about instead.

im taking a shit

When did you see the most activity here?

i don’t think so. it appears to be growing tbh.

i'm good, thanks for asking! all healthy here!

Can it technically die assuming some people still remain active and continue to use its protocols or whatever?

Its not centralized in a way it even can die in a guranteeable way. Like if Reddit closed down, there would be competitors popping up but Reddit itself the servers would cease to function and it would be dead but to my knowledge, Lemmy is built to avoid all that

I know people have posted user stats now and then. More like stagnant at the moment. Slow growth would be ideal. I'm not interested in gaining mass appeal tbh.

You can change the sorting to show the new posts. You can also change the list to show posts from all communities from all federated instances (except from banned ones). I mostly find very recent posts.

slowly yes

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

Its about the same as i remember it being like 2.5 yrs ago tbh, which is actually a good thing.. it still feels very community like unlike reddit in which the amount of activity is just so insane that you cant really participate on major subreddits, and the amount of bots are just insane….

I think what happened with lemmy is that during the whole reddit API saga a lot of people were furious and hurried to any platform they found good, and specifically in lemmy.. it started getting popular with a particular type of demographic which u see popular today, however there was also some courtesy and acceptance that was lost, there was a lot of “holier than thou” attitude going around which is actually a big part of the reason why i nuked my old and quite active account here (which i regret tbh coz i did have some very good discussions), but i think that ended up alienating a lot of people that might have chosen lemmy over alternatives during that time

As of now it seems pretty fine tho, the voices do seem a bit more varied or atleast nuanced, but people just no longer are rushing to quit reddit now, and the base seems stable, the upvotes comments i see now r the same i used to see 1.5 years ago..

I believe Lemmy itself is shrinking. Last I checked Fediverse Observer, it was on a downward trend (although not drastically). That said, that excludes PieFed. I think when including PieFed we're probably growing (very) slowly.

Nope, I keep finding new communities every day.

When you block the political communities, all you see is good content.

No.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/15975677

Unfortunately we can't filter out all the Americans but once you block and filter all the US communities and US politics communities it is quite usable and active enough to browse Hot or Top Day or what you choose. It's not enough to browse constantly all day long but once or twice a day.

reddit is too, I've heard...