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From my own experience with Lemmy, I can absolutely see why it’s declining.

Lemmy is packed full of miserable people constantly calling for violence. 90% of the feed is packed full of US politics, it doesn’t matter how many filters I use I still see that greasy orange cunt’s face every time I open Lemmy.

The amount of hostility towards outsiders just getting into Lemmy is astounding, and I’ve absolutely seen the whole “quality over quantity” crap that only drives people away from the platform. The IT tech snobbery is also incredibly offputting to people who aren’t tech enthusiests.

In short, Lemmy has a toxic shithead problem that a platform this small can’t afford if it wants to survive long term.

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Echo5@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah the corn movement barely helped and you still have people whining or raging in the comments regardless of subject matter. I just want muh memes

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Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ve seen a rise in calls to violence. This is not cool.

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Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Fully agree. Its user base is self selecting for the people who are most easily fed up with the mainstream platforms (i.e. Reddit). It seems like the most eager to jump ship set up camp first and it has resulted in an extremely sanctimonious community. They don’t want more users. They want everyone to be exactly like them.

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- Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Which wasn’t the case early on, from my experience. Instead, when Lemmy had its first big boom it was filled with people looking for a non-toxic, real conversation. I still find that to be the case in replies, but my front page tends to be filled with stories where commenters are dissimilar to Reddit, less intellectual responses and more edgy hyperbole.
  
  Seriously though, the people responding to political posts with thinly veiled calls to harm or kill political leaders need to be banned on the spot. Absolutely intolerable.
  
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  - Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    i noticed alot of the political posts has subtle tankie infilitration in it, try to stir shit to cause drama, because thier own instances isnt getting traffic because its been defederate, they often hide the purpose of the post , under the guise “the other opinion”
    
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InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Sad but true

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crumbgrabber@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Other than that, It’s a pretty good platform

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