full of politics and tankieism has become more commonplace.

Not if you use filters and blocklists. This platform has been full of politics and porn since the first day. On day 2, I created a short filter list and blocked a few instances and communities and now I see absolutely 0 posts daily regarding it.

As for stagnant, that's what you get when you move to a platform that doesn't use an algorithm and ragebait to keep you engaged. For all the people that say they hate the manipulation used against them by the big platforms, they have been conditioned to want it and many move back or keep visiting while here. You can either choose to catch up on your feed here and then go touch grass or you can doomscroll reddit with the assurance that you'll never run out of psychologically tailored content to peruse.

Idk though, maybe it’s just me

i'm having a great time

Do you miss the bean posts?

this reminds me of im leaving reddit posts. when I left I did not post about it. I just left. now im here and i have blocked enough communities and users that its a fine experience for me. granted my instance does some blocking to so we will see if I ever get off my tuckus and move over to zip.

The qualities swing and sway in various ways. Some days, it seems to be a giant wall of 'fuck trump/ice/anyone right of me.' Some days, it's horny memes and cat pics. Some days, it's 'I made bread today. It's delicious.'

If you want advice: Maybe unsubscribe from like the political memes communities and specifically join replacements which are better aligned to what you need. Some people are trying to make an effort.

If you want validation... I see shitty things here as well.

I'm having a fantastic time running the kinds of communities I want to see and only browsing by subscribed.

I've curated my feed to things I find sensible. And yes Lemmy is slowing down. We just have to keep reasonable conversations going until the next reddit exodus and the cycle continues.

The tools are getting better, Lemmy 1.0 is in public beta. I don't think Lemmy is dying, just in a slump right now... And yes the userbase I mostly block is driving normies away. Which means less of the conversations I enjoy. So... Better tools!

You can always be the change you want to see.

Waves go down before they come up.

What? You don't want to spend the whole day talking about things that you don't like and make you angry?

Are you sane?

I've stopped following most of the politics communities, but more often than I would like, there's some thing going up about how this niche tech babble is the end of all things, and it's a bunch of terminology that I know nothing about.

I'd agree there is a kind of rhythm to Lemmy posts and comments. It does make it less dynamic.

This matches my experiences as well. When I joined years ago, it felt like there was so much more variety. By available stats, MAU is pretty consistant (although the stats are lacking in key details like MAU excluding bot instances, or posts/comments per month) but it feels like so much of the new content is exclusively politics while other interests and niches have fallen off.

The average American has the weirdest, silliest of takes. Go back to Reddit where Western imperialism is praised and political discourse is within your acceptable limits. 🙄

Or just block any community that discusses anything non-scientific seriously? Politics are an extension of ethics and ethical convos happen all the time, it's unavoidable if you discuss life and society.

Humans are the most political species. Politics is group decision making, and humans have the best group decision making processes. They even have organised structures for passing on knowledge and wisdom, which have ensured that nearly every generation of humans are smarter than the previous.

You know who has just as much raw intelligence as humans, but no politics? Octopuses. Fucking apolitical savages. They’re capable of learning so much, I saw a youtube video where an octopus learned to play the piano. And by now he’s probably dead, and his knowledge lost. Octopuses aren’t political enough to teach each other. That’s why they’ll never get as much done as humans.

Billionaires are trying to convince you that you don’t like politics, so you’ll be as easy to control as the apolitical animals are. Do you want to be used for labour value by a smarter animal, like oxen are? If you aspire to apoliticism, you will be!

Even Lemmy.world is starting to be infested with commies