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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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Maybe the whole age verification thing is keeping people offline.

[–] BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.

[–] BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's perhaps the greatest tragedy of my lifetime, I'm truly not exaggerating. We went from the free sharing of the majority of human knowledge to forcing people to sell their souls for YouTube money.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel the same way. I was a CS major in the early 80s. I watched the internet become something amazing, and then I watched it rot. Heartbreaking.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

we are, right now, part of the un-rotting

[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not in a country with the age verification thing, but has it been turned on for Lemmy servers?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I don't know, but I was thinking it might be causing people to be less online generally, even if Lemmy itself isn't a problem. I wonder what the Lemmy NSFW people are doing.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

I don't know of any servers that have started to verify ages, but some have started to geoblock countries whose laws require it.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 points 1 month ago

UK user here, several big lemmy instances are unavailable for me apart from when I'm on erm holiday

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's just UK currently

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, but I'm assuming there's a nontrivial number of UK users.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well there's an amount, but it wouldn't have much impact on the Fediverse as there's no age-ID here.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Therefore to comply, the server would relocate or go offline.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lemmy.zip is the only notable instance to have done this. Mostly because the owner is based in the UK.