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

Do tell us!(Including me, when possible)
But no guys, keep posting USA political news, political memes, what Trump said and downvote any athletic, music and ASMR post just because it's not about USA or political, and then complain how niche communities are dead.
Don't forget to downvote this comment too, it's not political.

Are people really suppressing posts on niche communities like this? I almost exclusively sort by post age or engagement rather than votes, and I'm on an instance that doesn't support downvoting. Downvoting isn't something I've thought about since my Reddit days.

@TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Always speaking from my point of view and what I have seen during my time on Lemmy.
I have see many posts about niche communities being dead, and I seen lots of posts getting downvoted right away, including my posts.
Users wanted to a change from Reddit, yet they replacate it.

Did you blur out his titties or what?

Downvotes are almost never used correctly. People think if something isn't for them, it deserves a downvote. An inevitable bit of Reddit culture that comes with that user base jumping ship. Nonetheless, it could only cause the death of a community if the people in that community don't choose to spend time there.

When I browse my subscriptions, it doesn't matter if the posts I want to see score too low on the vote scale to be discoverable in All. I'm going to see them, because they're what I came to see. I went looking for those communities, and curated my own feed. I think if more people went looking for stuff they want to see instead of letting their client show them whatever is doing well on votes, the votes wouldn't matter nearly as much.

People should just block communities they don't care about instead of downvoting posts from those communities in the all feed.