Might I invite everyone to use the Scaled sorting algorithm to see more of what the small communities have to offer! To avoid the firehose, you can default your feed to Subscribed and then liberally sub to the communities you like or might like. Then once a day or so switch to All+Scaled or All+Top Day to see what you might have missed and perhaps make some new community subs.

thank you @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 🫡

I wonder if the internet culture of sharing has died off somewhat. Old guy here. Are people are so used to consuming they forget about sharing? Or maybe it's just the type of person who uses the internet today is inherently more consumer then early adopters?

In my day a big appeal of the internet was to share things. But now it is to consume things.

Came here to tag you and @LadyButterfly
@piefed.blahaj.zone

Oh shit I totally forgot about him

My posts have almost exclusively become pics of my horse lmao. But I do try to make the posts regular to do my part.

Argued with tankies

i noticed since ee. fell there has been less content of certain communities.

Loving your posts ickplant

Thanks sad detective, I like bringing wholesome cheer to people's lives

It is an honour and a privilege 🫡

https://lemmy.world/post/35790913 maybe. Sounds like a similar issue.

I never got into the fediverse when I first made this account because everything seemed to be from a few communities. Used Scaled this time and it's so much better!

I've been using it as default ever since its introduction along with a large subscribed list and it's been great. All+Scaled for discovery of new community discovery, All+Top Day for checking on what Lemmy was on about today.

You can set whatever sort and feed defaults you like so that you don't have to set it every time you visit.

Thank you!

Thank you for your service:-)

Oh look, now we are talking with you too ️

When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.

Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with "I know you are but what am I" or "that's what your mom told me last night", and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.

It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.

A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it's a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).

We appreciate you

I live for comments like this so thank you

And I comment for lives like that so you are welcome