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 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about that issue do you think is causing less activity? Just people not wanting to engage as much because of the redundancy?

[–] surfrock66@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea, if people get too annoyed seeing the same story in 4 communities, I think eventually they consolidate down to one, and the fracturing reduces engagement across ALL the communities; a couple become ghost towns, etc. It's a different sense of engagement to see 4 threads with 2-4 comments instead of seeing 1 with 20.

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

I'm trying to relate that to the experience back on Reddit, where the same thing happened. Didn't seem to hinder growth. But often people would abandon the smaller versions of the communities for the larger ones.