Comment on Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Some additional uplifting community suggestions:

  • !upliftingnews@lemmy.world
  • !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
  • !aww@lemmy.world
  • !cats@sh.itjust.works
  • !dogsincostumes@lemmy.world (not terribly active lately but not dead either)
  • !piefed_joy@piefed.social (not well-known and specific to PieFed)

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world is inactive, we spent a while promoting the !wholesome@reddthat.com to decentralize from LW.

    Same for !upliftingnews@lemmy.world and !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social .

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People seem to still be posting to them though? Like Lady Butterfly made 6 posts to the latter one just today alone. And much of that content does not look to be reposted anywhere else, like this post in the former community:

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      You might want to shut those old ones down then if people are not supposed to be using them anymore?

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      • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        !wholesome@reddthat.com is the active community, it’s !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world that’s inactive

        About your last question, every time we suggest to lock down communities people come and start arguing that locking communities makes us like Reddit

        https://piefed.zip/post/507615#post_replies

        I’ve dealt with enough of those discussions in the past, I don’t want to deal with that kind of drama again.

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