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[–] [email protected] 132 points 11 months ago (5 children)

So glad I decided to stop lurking and actually start participating right as the whole fediverse dies out, it's not just lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I find it more comfortable to contribute to Lemmy than to other sites. There seems to be actual discussion and opportunities to learn, which can be much harder to come across on the other platforms.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And fewer comments that are clearly a chat bot.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Don't worry! They've just become less obvious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

When you come across a ‘user’ that almost exclusively defends one controversial politician/company/government and all of their comments seem to follow a script. Also the account is either brand new or 5 years old but only started posting recently.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That I agree with. I don't post often but when I do it's always very positive and makes me want to post more . Compared to Reddit where it would have alot more negative comments or would just get removed by the mods for some stupid reason. Did you know you can no longer post on r/buildapc about asking for suggestions on building PC's ? What's even the point anymore?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Did you know you can no longer post on r/buildapc about asking for suggestions on building PC’s ?

Yeah it's like a sub for a specific narrow purpose then people get buthurt about how people are always making the same posts over and over. So they turn it in to a wiki to "address repetitive spam" or whatever, so at that point you might as well just refer to one of the hundreds of other build lists found on other reputable sites. A lot of the productive hobby subs turn in to "hey check out my [reddit hyped product]!" and people actually posting things they've put effort in get little to no attention.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Definitely trying to interact more, Lemmy is a gift imo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I feel like mastodon is doing alright.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The fediverse is not dying out, don't be dramatic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For me Mastodon is still growing and getting more interesting, with more and more formal institutions joining (newspapers, NGOs, government institutions etc.).