This fits my profile. I actively browsed and contributed to Lemmy for about 4 months following the US inauguration, but all the useful stuff I want is still on Reddit and Twitter. I still look at Lemmy around once per week, but honestly it seems like there’s a lot more political rage bait and not as much in the way of niche community content.
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Ypsilenna@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I recently re-joined Lemmy, so I am not sure how it changed, but I am mostly a Mastodon user and I noticed that people were flooding it in large quantities when something stupid happened on Twitter (again), and then leaving it after a short while to go back to Twitter or quitting social media altogether. I would suspect that people either started going back to Reddit, or decided to get a mental health break from the internet as a whole (which wouldn’t surprise me, the internet is pretty depressing lately).
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ypsilenna@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I can relate to that. Most of the info I usually need from Reddit is about gaming, and the majority of games I play aren’t even mentioned here. I also agree on the political ragebait part. I narrow my feed down to the communities I follow only, because the moment I use “All”, I get a lot of these.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Games genre communities (!jrpg@lemmy.zip ) are doing okay, game-specific communities are probably too niche for now yet.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
yeah, talk about all jrpgs in that community until it’s busy enough to subdivide
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
The world is a pretty depressing place lately.