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It’s not that is too complicated, it’s the fact that there’s no one here.
You need to switch up how you view it. Go to
- Hot
- 6 hour
- Scaled
- Active
That’ll get you an hour or so depending on what instance you’re on. Your instance decides what you see on All and Hot. That’s why it is kind of important which instance you choose. If one gets too big, it controls what most people see.
According to the recent stats, there are millions of people here every day. That means you’re not seeing them.
The population here is like a tiny slice of what it is on reddit, there’s no one here
I know I’m ‘arguing’ a troll, and that the troll has been banned. Still, got to say something about this number chasing:
The population here is like a tiny slice of what it is on reddit, there’s no one here
In other words you can recognise individual posters here. And there’s a sense of belonging and community you won’t find in a faceless mob like Reddit. It’s comfy.
And yet people keep babbling about growth, growth, growth, as if it was the ultimate goal. Is it? A larger userbase has its pros and its cons.
(I also happen to remember Reddit before it was overgrown. Spoilers, it was a thousand times better.)
Treating it seriously, I think that people are interested in growth because:
- if we aren’t growing, then due to attrition we are slowly dying
- people seem to want a little bit more content, especially about niche topics that currently we have to keep going back to Reddit for bc that’s where it is at
- solving the problems inhibiting growth may make us better overall and our experiences here more enjoyable not only for new people but the existing userbase as well - so here growth is the diagnostic indicator of deeper phenomena
So it is not to feed the advertising machine and stockholder valuation, but even with the profit factor removed there are others that remain.
After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
Sorry about that, some people don’t know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They’re supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they’re in yours and you don’t even appreciate them!
Comms are created on whichever instance you are using when creating them.
I have to say this is my experience too. I’m a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there’s a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn’t have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
3 legged dung beetle jump racing isn’t niche!
