Staff. I don't think I can do that. I can check later

Honestly, this is fine. This is a healthy community. If we had an exponential growth curve, the AI bots, clout-chasting influencers, marketers and data-mining scrapers would be all over these instances, and Lemmy frankly has very poor tools to deal with it.

There aren't the niche communities, I agree that that's regrettable. But we really do run into scaling problems.

Ugh that’s a really good point. I need to work on more ‘whatever’ throw away comments

Yep, it's live.

There is a slow decline though. I don't want exponential growth, but growth is important imo at this stage

I'm getting Déjà vu as it reminds me of someone on Mastodon posting a graph of Mastodon's daily users going down. Can't remember if it OP of that post (Mastodon post, not this Lemmy one) or a news article that was like "Is this a downfall for Mastodon?". Nope, it's still around and I will argue, Mastodon is at it's own lane which feels unfair it get compared to Twitter which feels like an Apple and Oranges compassion

Ah, I misremembered!

@skavau@piefed.social

I blocked all the news channels, location channels (since they're 90% news anyways), and a few extra that kept getting bad news related comments or trollish crap, and the top feeds are usually pretty good. They don't change too much over a day, but at least it no longer feels like doomscrolling.

• !casualconversation@piefed.social
• !wholesome@reddthat.com
• !nicememes@sopuli.xyz

Also, consider switching to Piefed to be able to use the built-in keyword filter. I haven't seen US news since using it.

It's great that we can individually curate our feeds but what I think the person you replied to is highlighting is that the first impressions a new user may get is repetitive doomer content. That's the nature of sorting by all and our instance-based approach, but it's definitely an experience which may put new people off

You know, I had an idea for another keywords filter for feeds. It works in reverse. You type in keywords you want to see in posts and it then makes you a feed comprised of posts of that nature.

I'm not a programmer so I can't speak to how hard this is, but I think it would be a big asset to building user base if there was a neutral sign up website that wasn't a specific instance. It would basically choose an instance for you automatically and skip that part. I figure there could be some list of general purpose instances compiled that are all fair game and the site would try to spread the load across instances.

Average user doesn't care about federation, and all of that complexity is a big turn off. I know because I almost didn't sign up myself because of that. Having to pick a team just to get in the door feels kinda bad.

That would be nice

Thank you for your service. I agree with you on the issue, but am a bit afraid that if more people onboard here, the threads will be just the same reddit hivemind circlejerk like ”i also choose this guys wife” etc. But since there is no karma to gain here I wish it will stay like this.

And yet the graph is going down...

Nail, meet head. This is the Lemmy experience.

Reddit was big enough for people to have different interests and, here is the kicker, the subreddit system was a perfect way to separate the people that didn't give a shit about a subject and those that did.

There was life besides /all

If you remove /all from Lemmy you have, maybe, 3-4 communities that post with any regularity. Within those there are maybe 2 people in total that post.

It's turning to shit. A complete and utter echo chamber.

People have started using Piefed insted of Lemmy, but I'm not sure we should throw away hope for the fediverse because of that.

People will come in waves, some will share the same mindset and others will seek out more dopamine centric engagement.

I don't know that a lack of users across the platform to support nicher topics necessarily justifies the charge of "echo chamber". They are two different things.