I mean I don’t see much activity outside politics. Edit: As you all mentioned I’ll try blocking some political and news communities and try to find some new communities.
No way, i get my best memes here.
Got some recommendations? I’m always looking for more places
Here’s a dump of all the meme and meme-like communities I’ve subscribed to. Are some of the better than others? Absolutely. Do some of them have memes I don’t like? Absolutely. Are some of them even dead? Probably. But I see funny memes, I hit subscribe. Also I browse All regularly to discover new stuff.
Personally if you’ve not checked out the science_memes one there’s some real bangers there.
- https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes
- https://lemmy.world/c/microblogmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/politicalmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/science_memes@mander.xyz
- https://lemmy.world/c/funny@sh.itjust.works
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@sopuli.xyz
- https://lemmy.world/c/linuxmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- https://lemmy.world/c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
- https://lemmy.world/c/tenforward
- https://lemmy.world/c/NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz
- https://lemmy.world/c/196
- https://lemmy.world/c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- https://lemmy.world/c/dadjokes
- https://lemmy.world/c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- https://lemmy.world/c/sigh_fi@quokk.au
- https://lemmy.world/c/lotrmemes@midwest.social
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@slrpnk.net
- https://lemmy.world/c/simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works
- https://lemmy.world/c/risa@startrek.website
- https://lemmy.world/c/nsfwmemes@lemmynsfw.com
- https://lemmy.world/c/funny@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@midwest.social
- https://lemmy.world/c/surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works
- https://lemmy.world/c/startrekmemes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/memes@yiffit.net
- https://lemmy.world/c/dankmemes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/lotrmemes@lemmy.ml
- https://lemmy.world/c/engineeringmemes
- https://lemmy.world/c/nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
I’m sure not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve been getting a kick out of Anti Meme lately.
In my opinion, it’s much more alive than it was back then reddit killed third party applications
It’s enough for me, I guess.
im taking a shit
Where are you taking it to?
So am I!
It’s growing and is a good place to contribute to honest discussion, from what I can see; I’d like to take the opportunity to compare such comments as these to something akin to MMORPG discussions.
I don’t know if there’s a complete term for the idea but saying “X online community is dying” in MMORPG communities can fuel their own death spirals as others see it and also begin to believe the game has a shrinking community and therefore will be an empty lot not worthy of your time.
I would advise that if you like what you see here, contribute and help make the communities you like flourish than contribute to a perceived decline.
Bonus points if anyone thinks I’m clever. :S
People gave Lemmy a try and went back to Reddit because it offers more content and interactions.
I remember years ago when I was just an account-less lurker on lemmy. I’d only check in once a week, and still half the posts were the same ones I saw last week.
Things have changed a lot since then, and I don’t think we’ll ever get back down to those levels; but I’d still use lemmy even if it did.
slowly yes
Yeah. Lemmy’s former growth came from external events which brought users to Lemmy. Without more of these shocks, I don’t see Lemmy growing.
I don’t have a problem with that.
The last thing I want is all of the propaganda and barely literate morons that have parasitized the rest of the internet coming here to churn it into a fucking cesspool of idiocy.
You’re making the common mistake of believing that newcomers are somehow dumber than the ones who have been here a while.
No, Lemmy/piefed has a deep user base of people knowledgeable about Linux, programming, Star Wars, and a few other topics, but plenty of other topics still leave a lot to be desired.
For example, I’ve noticed that Lemmy’s userbase is probably below the internet average at picking up on satire and sarcasm.
I do t think anywhere online features people who are good at picking up on sarcasm.
I think it’s a North American thing. Canadians / Americans are shit at picking up on it irl too
I do wish it was as funny as a younger reddit, I used to be bowled over reading comments. I fesr we have lost a spark from all the fuckery of the world.
Lemmy has lost that funny spark and energy, but it’s because of the weird niche user base. Other platforms don’t all have this problem.
i’m good, thanks for asking! all healthy here!
Feels active to me… but I usually subscribe and participate in communities I want to follow and then browse my Lemmy Subscribed page. Rarely look at the All page, it gets annoying scrolling through tons of posts about topics I have no interest in.
I know people have posted user stats now and then. More like stagnant at the moment. Slow growth would be ideal. I’m not interested in gaining mass appeal tbh.
Its about the same as i remember it being like 2.5 yrs ago tbh, which is actually a good thing… it still feels very community like unlike reddit in which the amount of activity is just so insane that you cant really participate on major subreddits, and the amount of bots are just insane….
I think what happened with lemmy is that during the whole reddit API saga a lot of people were furious and hurried to any platform they found good, and specifically in lemmy… it started getting popular with a particular type of demographic which u see popular today, however there was also some courtesy and acceptance that was lost, there was a lot of “holier than thou” attitude going around which is actually a big part of the reason why i nuked my old and quite active account here (which i regret tbh coz i did have some very good discussions), but i think that ended up alienating a lot of people that might have chosen lemmy over alternatives during that time
As of now it seems pretty fine tho, the voices do seem a bit more varied or atleast nuanced, but people just no longer are rushing to quit reddit now, and the base seems stable, the upvotes comments i see now r the same i used to see 1.5 years ago…
Nope, I keep finding new communities every day.
Can it technically die assuming some people still remain active and continue to use its protocols or whatever?
Its not centralized in a way it even can die in a guranteeable way. Like if Reddit closed down, there would be competitors popping up but Reddit itself the servers would cease to function and it would be dead but to my knowledge, Lemmy is built to avoid all that
I believe Lemmy itself is shrinking. Last I checked Fediverse Observer, it was on a downward trend (although not drastically). That said, that excludes PieFed. I think when including PieFed we’re probably growing (very) slowly.
