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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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm relatively new here, the only negative thing I notice is mods/creators reposting the same stuff every ~6-24 hours to make it 'seem' like there is more activity, which I think backfires more than not.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Are you sure you arent seeing posts of the same community being hosted from other instances? Ive been here a while and havent seen any reposting within the same community of the same instance. (Or atleast not repetitively.)

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Very possible, I have not dug in on this, just a vibe.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you mean the "how is your day going so far" type of posts, I don't think those are meant to be deceptive so much as to generate engagement by placing the post into people's subscribed feeds.

But if you mean the same identical post, that's not great - perhaps you want to unsubscribe from communities that do or even allow such practices.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I love the little personal threads. Im not sure if they exist on other platforms but its one of my favourite things about lemmy so far.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Oh, I haven't noticed that.