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 1 month ago (1 children)

As for why it subjectively seems to be declining… maybe you know what you’re gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts?

I don't think so. For ages (maybe two years) I'll sometimes sit in bed in the morning and browse New until I hit the stuff I saw previously. That used to take me well over an hour - maybe two - but now it takes less than thirty minutes.

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

I feel like the corporate American need for exponential growth and for endless feeds of mindless scrollable content is, maybe, not what people are crying out for on the fediverse.

There are so, so many other platforms offering both. They got shit, because exponential growth and endless scrolling feeds only ever lead that way.

I'm happy with one little corner of the internet that doesn't always need to pump up its numbers month on month, year on year, and where I can scroll for a bit then get bored and go back to the real world.

In fact, I seem to recall an awful lot of people saying that's the only way to engage with the www and stay sane. Or at least, have a fighting chance.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, I'm with you, and I don't need or want the endless growth thing. I was on Reddit a long time, and saw the good and bad of the huge user base.

But it's kind of like when you have a favorite neighborhood restaurant: you don't want it to get so successful that it's always crowded and you can't get a table, but you also want it to do well enough that it stays in business. If the Lemmy use base declines too much, there won't be a reason for people to come here and we'll lose our little corner of the Internet.