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[–] [email protected] 457 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Total monthly posts exploded after Spez enshitified Reddit, and is still growing steadily month over month.

That suggests that the current decline in monthly active users is primarily because lurkers who only came to lemmy after initially hearing about it on Reddit, went back to lurking Reddit.

The number of users that are contributors is still growing, and that’s what’s important.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I'm yet to encounter the majority of issues I hear Lemmings griping about. Everyone has been pretty civil toward me. Every time my inbox blows up I feel dread, only to open it and find zero confrontation or vitriol. I'm not running into any racists, sexists, bigots, etc., and I certainly haven't noticed a decline in content (I browse Top ~6 Hours).

I realize my personal experience doesn't equate to these problems not existing, but I do get the strong impression that people are exaggerating greatly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My only issue is the lack of small communities that get posts frequently, and yeah, duh, I should contribute, but theres only so much I can say about my transness.

One thing I miss about reddit is just being able to endlessly read about peoples experiences and stupid shitty trans memes, thats just missing here right now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this. My small Reddit communities had a few posts per day. The equivalent on Lemmy have a few per year. Still, I don’t miss them enough to go back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah I'm not going back, just had to substitute with some discord servers so I'm not tempted. After that, I'm good lol

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