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I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Also British, trying (somewhat failing) to avoid more of the political stuff and that seems to be most of the national specific stuff that gets posted.

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It could be a reducing interest in posting totally public stuff. Perhaps people want to just use group chats in Signal instead?

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

There is something in that, plus the internet in general seems to be getting dumbed down a lot. Fedi also seems very much a place full of extreme views which for a lot of people is just a turn off. As a bloke seeing loads of content that is obviously sexual is also something I thought we'd seen the last of...

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think because Emperor has vanished, might be a factor

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