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How was it? Did it feel lively?

I just checked the front page a couple of times out of curiosity, but I never bothered really checking it out too much. I was always surprised how dead it looked from the outside, but that might have been the wrong impression.

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Skavau@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It was overall, less active than the Fediverse.

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- cabbage@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s interesting and I missed that post, thanks!
  
  It can be easy to lose track of how successful the fediverse already is, as the number of users will remain negligible compared to mainstream platforms for a really long time and possibly forever. Seeing how it easily outperforms a major player like Digg trying to re-establish themselves puts things into perspective.
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Maybe they’ll relaunch as a piefed instance, lol
    
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kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It was active enough that there was new content every day. Checking multiple times a day I’d see the same stuff but I saw that as a positive that kept me from wasting too much time.

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- cabbage@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Did it have niche communities that had successfully moved over, but that were not featured on the front page?
  
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  - mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    My community is a niche one Albumartworksheaven. It took me a month to have more followers on digg than here in 6 months. My community was featured twice
    
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    cabbage@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oooh, neat community! Joined!
    
    I guess that’s one benefit of a smaller site - if you put down the effort in it, it stands out more.
    
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  - kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It had some, yeah. I never really got a chance to dig into them very much but I was a member of the /spongebob community and it had some sincere activity from people who wanted to grow it into something fun and engaging.
    
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  - ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don’t think many of the niche communities really had time to thrive, since people were trying to build up a lot of the main ones. I think some were starting to just get traction, which could be a reason why they chose now, stopping before it really got away from them.
    
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