Do we need more users ?
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The amount of furry / anime content on the front page might be putting off some new users
I don't see this on mine. Isn't NSFW enabled by default?
This is why I don't generally believe in all being a good "starting" view for new users. Local would probably make more sense until the user has subscriptions, and then defaulting to subscriptions once the user has joined communities. This would mean an always active feed to start, prioritizing the "local" community for users to participate in the instance they belong to, while also not bombarding them with content from the firehose.
My 2 cents, probably easier to say what to do than to do it though, being a programmer myself.
yeah i think when a new user signs up on an instance, they should be automatically subscribed to a certain list of communities that fit the vibe of the instance. like when you sign up to a memes community, you get automatically subscribed to all meme communities even from other instances.
the instance admin would have to maintain a community list for that.
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lemmy is basically NSFW because of this, yes. the amount of furry anime porn that reaches the front page is crazy.
i don't get why it being pushed, but I suppose it's just the userbase is very active and passionate about that stuff so it rises to the top.
how comes i never see it? did i block it accidentally?
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Look at it from a new user's perspective; someone who has not curated their feed or otherwise "made the fediverse what they want" yet. e.g. They land on Lemmy World or another big instance and their default sort is "active". Doing that now in an incognito window, and half the front page is rage, same on the second, and the stuff that's not are some random shitposts and Linux filling in.
Truth be told, looking at that, I probably wouldn't want to sign up. Especially if I didn't know that different instances have different cultures, etc.
Assuming they're a normie (which we desperately fucking need here), I just don't see that they'd want to stick around. Aside from trolls and spammers, the only people we seem to consistently attract here are the "Wah wah I was banned from Reddit" types and, while there's certainly a sizable pool to draw from, I wouldn't exactly consider them the pick of the litter for growing the fediverse.
The point of OPs post is that usage here is declining, and I am simply pointing out that I feel all the rage and politics is not particularly inviting.
Edit: And you know what? I'm just going to fucking say it. There's too many armchair activists here who won't let you enjoy a single moment without reminding you that something bad is happening somewhere in the world and that you have some kind of moral obligation to be angry all the time about it. And if you're not angry all the time then you're somehow part of the problem.
Thereâs too many armchair activists here who wonât let you enjoy a single moment without reminding you that something bad is happening somewhere in the world and that you have some kind of moral obligation to be angry all the time about it. And if youâre not angry all the time then youâre somehow part of the problem.
That's exactly what i'm complaining about as well. Being angry doesn't even help. Having a clear head helps, but being angry IMO stands against that.
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Yes.
I've seen so many discussions like this about what needs to be done. So I did those things.
Very few noticed and I quickly got tired of popping up and saying "oh yeah I fixed that" to everything. Besides it makes me look like a smug asshole.
piefed is great!
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Yes! We need more esp32 users to come up with bonkers ideas.
Efi System Partition 32 bit?
i remember writing code for the ESP boot system
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Yes.
Do we want Reddit amounts of users? No.
But there's a lot of growth between here and there.
IMHO the internet isn't for everyone. that might make me sound like an elitarian asshole but i think the internet's only for people who enjoy going through information and are able to think without being swayed by group-think (tribalism) because otherwise it simply ends up in a bubble of rage bait and propaganda.
Essentially i think that maybe the internet of the future will be much smaller overall (think like 3% of its current user count) but it will probably be better that way.
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What we REALLY need is more posts about Linux.
Linux is too mainstream nowadays, I'm moving to FreeBSD
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The instance is called lemmit.online, and the most upvoted post on the whole instance is "This bot is bad for lemmy".
the question is whether the upvotes of that post makes over half of the total upvotes on all posts on that instance, and that i seriously doubt
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I had the idea to revive dead c/ by reposting from reddit. It's controversial to use a bot
i think if you copy posts/images manually it's better because it shows that there's a human actually wanting that community active, so other people can see that and engage as well. if a bot does it, it's just a "flood" for no reason.
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Iâd rather see better discovery tools and better community/account migration tools. Id be worried about topic-specific instances potentially backfiring by concentrating too much influence for a given set of subjects on the âpreferredâ instances
better discovery tools
i think communities should have links to "related communities" in their sidebar sothat people can find similar communities more easily.
There could even be a "recommended" posts listing, besides the "subscribed"/"local"/"all" as it is today. it would show you posts from linked communities from communities that you already subscribed to too.
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because the alternative is to lose more than we gain each year because the option to "stay exactly the same" is statistically unlikely as it has a probability of around 0%.
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That's a very capitalist take. Remember how good things used to be? That's how good the Fediverse is now. We don't want it to grow or die. If it grows, great. If it doesn't, great. Quality over quantity, imo.
I saw it as more philosophical than capitalistic. Like when Nietzsche said "What does not kill you makes you stronger".
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Just my two cents, but there's just no reason for people to come here when it's 80+% political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling. Hell, I've got 80% of the content here filtered out as it is, and I want to be here.
Find your nearest non-political hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see and maybe we might see some growth or people sticking around. My current hyperfixation/hobby is Meshtastic, so I've been pretty active there lately. If that's not your thing, then there's:
- !woodworking@lemmy.ca
- !leathercraft@lemmy.ca
- !artshare@lemmy.world
- !gardening@sh.itjust.works !Houseplants@lemmy.ca !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !baking@sh.itjust.works
- !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works or !sewing@lemmy.world
- !television@piefed.social
- !movies@piefed.social !movies@lemmy.ca !movies@lemmy.world
- !jigsaw_puzzles@lemmy.world
If you're like me and not good at any of that, tell us about cleaning your gutters or doing your laundry over in !Dullsters@dullsters.net
The point is, we need more posts about what make us happy and less about what we're angry at (which is pretty much goddamned everything).
Exactly! Well said.
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I agree with everything that you've said. I would also add:
Find your nearest non-political non-tech hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see
Because if we're going to cast the same net reddit does, people with a more varied set of interests need to come here. Can't be all linux, politics, and news. We're going to need people who like baking. We're going to need sports fans. We're going to need music.
I could type new communities we need to be active all day. Humans are surprisingly a diverse set of creatures. You have one set of interests, I have another. Different set of interests. And both are totally valid.
The thing people here don't seem to grasp is that OTHER interests and OTHER people using the fediverse isn't a bad thing. If a bunch of boomers come here, and make their own communities to talk about Taylor Swift, and whatever else they talk about on facebook. That's good that it would be here! Not bad!
They could talk about gardening, and model trains, and whatever else. It wouldn't appeal to you, and thats ok.
Plus the other generations as well!
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I dont think more users is very important. Its not going to make Lemmy change from mostly memes anyway.
The mentality of the largest Lemmy instances is still to moderate away opinions they dont agree with, so this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly.
Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted.
But we can all enjoy memes together.
Its kind of nice. Lemmy is chill and easy. Even kid friendly.If I get about 50% likes and 50% dislikes on a comment then I feel my comment was closest to the truth. This tells me that lemmy is not an echo chamber.
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Quality over quantity
Lemmy has neither.
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the question is whether the upvotes of that post makes over half of the total upvotes on all posts on that instance, and that i seriously doubt
No? Did I claim this?
The most upvoted post has ~20 upvotes, but there are a lot of posts with 1-5 upvotes.
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Just my two cents, but there's just no reason for people to come here when it's 80+% political shit a
As a contra point, I'm glad that its like this, a lack of politcal debate is toxic to democracy and that way be dragons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses). Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.
That doesn't mean there shouldn't be more other stuff as well though.
Lemmy doesnât have quality debates on politics either. The mods in the relevant communities swing the ban hammer liberally against everyone not following their opinion. Mainstream democrat talking points get banned as fascist. Antisemitic stuff is widespread as well.
You mostly get woke to extreme left echo chambers going on.
!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a good place to see this moderation in action.
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Lemmy has neither.
I disagree, ive had more useful discussion here than anywhere on the internet in a while.
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I agree, I think something that has been lost in conversation about progressive politics and leftism more broadly (in US-centric circles at least) is that as much as people on the left disagree about absolutely everything, in general (with plenty of exceptions) politically left movements and cultural spaces tend to be far better at identifying common values and truths that are universal and holding individuals and communities to those values and truths.
Whereas on the right the endless stumping about valuing freedom of speech turns out to mostly be a mirage when it comes to innocent, vulnerable people being physically murdered on camera by the state, on the left institutions and individuals are much more often held to a standard of values and called out if they fail to reach it.
When people enter a space where progressive and left voices haven't been systematically silenced and it is a new experience for them, they often react negatively and feel rebuked. I know some of my first encounters when I was younger with actually left spaces initially made me bristle with how willing they were to say no to things that weren't healthy, to challenge oppressive structures even if they were so normalized they were invisible to me... it can be an uncomfortable process but ultimately more often than not leftist spaces actually try to do it and it that is a good thing.
I entirely agree with people having agency to decide when politics comes up on their feed and when it doesn't, but the idea that we are all just being a bit too negative and obsessed with the news and we should cheer up is honestly insulting in 2026 given, you know gestures at everything. Everything is political, if you have the capacity to complain about being subject to "too much politics" be thankful for your capacity to experience that state of choice.
Also, and this is on a personal note, talking about politics doesn't make me depressed, it helps me feel less depressed and anxious because I know other people feel similarly and the more educated I am about what is happening the less scared and confused I feel.
Leftist spaces have changed a lot over the last two decades. Not for the better.
Cancel Culture Culture is real and extremely aggressive among the left.
