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I'm fairly new. Finding it hard to get truly into the experience given some of the more extreme takes that Lemmy seems to allow (or at least some federated servers)

Seems like Lemmee is sadly becoming a fairly isolated echo chamber for certain opinions only.

edit: An example of "Extreme takes". Not linking the post. it's been upvoted 17 times, and online for 18 hours unmoderated: in the post, the user encourages execution. Murder and destruction of property:

so, as an actual radical:

yeah pretty spot on with healthcare. this is basic ‘having a society’ shit.

I don’t want a job that pays so much as an actual society I can contribute to and nurture and be a fucking part of that will take care of me some noticeable fraction of how I take care of it. I’d rather not have money involved, if its all the same to you.

I do actually want a free place to live. I’ll help build it or whatever, but I’m fucking done compromising with landlord parasites; watched too many of their victims die.

I do not want corporations to be unprofitable; I want them dismantled and their boards executed. worker co-ops are cool. individual enterprise is cool. no more exploitation, no more not having a voice.

I think the entire concept we have of ‘democracy’ is absolutely cucked. I could write some essays on what real democracy looks like, but the short version is: fuck your bourgoise elections.

kill the billionaires; tjwyre literal monsters who drink children’s blood steal and transfuse the blood of the young to grasp vainly at eternal youth while burning our futures. no problem with your party yacht if its green and you built it with your friends, but I think we need a reset on ‘wealth’.

Reading shit like that a LOT on this site is a massive turn off to the average user, and why I have a hard time truly diving in and giving a shit about it.

Edited once more: Bolded the problem points I have with above. My issue is not the message itself, but the words and what this user encourages. Don't gaslight that the language used in that post was beyond reasonable and encourages violence

Well then let’s increase our engagement! Make some dank memes and post them, create more text content, ask more questions. Just no more weird anime shit, jesus christ

I cant really say, I've been hanging out here more though recently since reddit keeps getting more braindead even in my subscribed list and the mobile site is super glitchy

There have been a lot of political articles and not much besides.

I'd agree. Also Lemmy is too much just dropping news articles and discussing world politics for my taste. Maybe being just another comment feed underneath a news article isn't that engaging and interesting. I'd like to see more about hobbies and meaningful, sustainable talk about specific topics.

My comments seem like they're getting more votes/replies than usual. That could just be because of better stability though, also coincidental/context?

Though I posted 2 threads (OC, simple 3D models with vertex colors. banan) 2 weeks ago that didn't do much (and they both had federation issues in different places, one went to lemmy.world and not other places and the other thread did the opposite) in Kbin communities that don't have any new activity still. I thought about posting to artshare (on LW) to see if that'd be better but I also haven't done anything new with it recently.

When it warms up I tend to spend less time on my devices. This is the case where I live and will be for the next 3-4 months.

Over the past two months, I've noticed a drop in engagement on Lemmy. Communities that used to have a decent amount of new content posted over a week, are now lacking or nonexistent. I've noticed this to be highly true with all communities with less than 3k subscribers. I don't recall the name of the theory, but it was something like 'community content theory.' It goes something like this:

'Around 1% of people in an online community will share content and/or try to provide original content. To have this number grow, you have to provide a way for the content posters to continue to post.'

https://www.psychreg.org/psychology-content-creating-why-we-share-what-we-share/

• Self-expression and presenting one's identity/ideal self
• Seeking social validation through likes, comments, shares
• Connecting with communities of shared interests
• Educating others and providing helpful resources
• The "helper's high" of gratification from assisting people

In my experience, the third one rings true most often with people.

That being said, we should take a look at the kind of communities that are not getting much engagement.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active

Here we can see the stats for all of the communities across hundreds of instances. (Filters can be applied.)

What's surprising to me, is the ratio of subs to active users there are. After a two minute look, I believe I see that there are a few outliers where they have nearly all of the subs active and fewer that have more actives to subs. Most of what I'm seeing is around 1/3 ratio of subs to active users per week, of the best performers. Definitely not the norm.

I have a few theories as to why this is, but would love to hear from others.

I've noticed that some instances, including lemmy.world, are getting more aggressive with blocking other instances (also due to assumed "spam"). At the same time, the /all/ feed is only populated by the communities that other users of your instance are subscribing to. I'd look in some newcommunities communities to subscribe to more interesting communities so that they pop up in your /all/ feed. Another reason is probably also that many people are moving away from lemmy.world to smaller instances.

I'm not sure if I've seen a drop off lately. And I wanted to say hi :)

Agreed. It's been getting quieter