Well, my guess is people got depressed discussing who is the less genocidal candidate to govern the most military powerful country on Earth.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
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It feels like everything in All is about an election in the USA, and that's really not very engaging to the rest of us. So I mostly hang out in Local for the most part.
Shii idk what u talkin about i deleted my old reddits and migrated fully π
The entire front page is filled with Trump sneezing. Psyop is too obvious.
Just for me personally - I've tried going back to traditional forums. It's irritating that when I sign up and contribute to a board a few times, I get a temp ban for potentially being a bot
The_piccard_manoeuvre is in holiday.
Contrary to certain self-victimizing sentiments, I think that the problem is that the platform is more and more overtaken by the topic of the election (and Israel in reference thereto) and it just results in interminable arguing in circles that accomplishes nothing but wasting time. Regardless of the outcome of the election, I think less-annoying activity will increase afterwards.
A lot of users on here have an unhealthy obsession with bringing up awful events everywhere all the time - donating and raising awareness is good but turning every topic around to be about specific conflicts and political happenstance in a forum already saturated with that content isn't encouraging for other people to engage and probably isn't conducive to mental wellness either
federated platform splits userbase into a million little fiefdoms, only somewhat interconnected, all differently starved for interaction
Yup, checks out
Instances run like communities with communities more like hashtags seem fine.
Yep it's down a lot. I think it's because it's just memes and also quite hard moderation and downvotes. It feels like a reddit clone that has the exact same mindset as reddit. I get annoyed when I see people being moderated for having an opinion that is not popular.
I saw a post being locked yesterday for asking about moderation. Doesn't anyone else see the problem with that? Your channels rules are not more important than making people feel they can talk and express what's on their mind.
I hate that so much. Stop treating people like they are just resources to moderate.
I don't see much discussions. But I'm sure there is a few here and there.
Yeah the aggressive mod removals on a platform that is starved for interaction is dumb as fuck. I havenβt had much of my stuff removed, but when someone replies to me and itβs removed before I can see what they said it irritates me to no end. Let dude make his shitty point so I can engage in toxic online dick wagging stupidity like I want to god damnit.
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Turns out the shittest people from Reddit came here and became mods, who woulda thought lmaoooooooo
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I've been getting some flags to mod remove some stuff. I read them and look into each one, but I need a damn good reason to take action and I rarely see that. I see some stupid, but everyone has a right to that, or a bad day. There are lots of things I don't like or agree with, but only a terrible mod enforces their opinions or is unable to separate themselves from the role of a mod. A bad mod is a visible mod. Feel free to point them out. People can change, and admin should be made aware. Heck, if it is me, I want to know where to adjust my biases or how to better explain my actions.
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I second that. If you express unpopular opinion in the most civilized way, engage in the discussion defending that opinion you will still get banned/downvoted because mod was in a bad mood. I've blocked many big communities because of that.
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I think it's because it's just memes and also quite hard moderation and downvotes
Could this be specific to the American election?
I feel like I've seen more items in the moderation queue recently. I can't say I've had to act on more items though
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I can only speak for myself:
I'm here, still reading and voting, but I haven't posted/commented as much recently.
Life got a bit busy, should be back to normal in a bit
The irony is that those those that aren't here can't answer why they left.
Mostly making sure I didn't miss some new drama thing or whatnot. Usually those have peripheral observers that will speak up. Friday nights (SoCal) are kinda hit or miss anyways, but we've been trending down a good bit recently.
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Eh, I usually just lurk, unless I have something meaningful to contribute (which is rare, my mind is blank and tired most of the time)
I'm trying to break my long habit of lurking, I'd like to see the platform grow so I help where I can
I've been wondering how much of that is back to school. I have the sense that Lemmy has a lot of younger users. I can't judge though as I've been inactive for long stretches due to life. I've been trying to contribute more now
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For me, life is happening and I just have less time
For me, there's just been less posted that I feel I have something to say on. If I see something about programming, networking or tech that I have (probably) some useful info to contribute I will do so. Likewise if there's a general subject I have anecdotal points to make, or I'm just genuinely interested I will comment too.
But otherwise, I just read and move on. There's been a lot more read and move on lately. Maybe because of the upcoming US election for which by and large beyond the fact I don't want the orange shitgibbon (As a fan of the west wing, I like that the spelling checker suggested shibboleth to correct this "typo") to win, I don't have much interest. Mostly because I'm not from the US.
Start of school breaks in some countries in Europe. Could have an impact as people are busy with their kids
i wonder how many ppl on lemmy have children
Down down to goblin town.
Life is full of cycles. Iβm traveling these days but Iβm still here.
Just not getting the interesting questions as often afaict.
Do you mean in this community or across lemmy as a whole?
As a whole it's because no one actually makes anything unique. It's just reposts. and also because of certain instances that the lemmy developers are fond of
Was immensely busy and focused to finish my university meanwhile trying to get bit of peace through reading books and gaming.
Also nowadays mainly use rss-feed for everything (Blogs, News, Reddit and Lemmy).
I mean, it's the ml. People, including myself, have had very bad experiences in ml communities and what I've seen is a general consensus to avoid them. As I type this I even expect it to be removed or at least down voted to hell for daring to say this, as ml does. I can accept the community just isn't for me, but the question was asked.
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