they most likely went back to the original platforms they came on, reddit, X,tiktok.

probably went back the mainstream ones like reddit, and the others, assuming you wernt banned in any of those platforms permananetly.

its probably due to self-censorship because subs, and reddit is ready to ban you at the moments notice for saying something they think its violating the rules(misconstruing) and not do actually violating by being vitrolitic, or bigotic. you have to be careful what you say on reddit.

it kinda shrank after lemmy.ee went down, because they moved scattered to piefed,,,etc. and also blocking people too.

depends on what and how you say it. people on reddit says, or suggest positive things but its more like insulting intelligence than offering advice.

i dont block news channels, just the POLITICS on worlds. it was problematic enough in my lemmy.ee account they misinterpeted my comments as being anti-semitic/not being pro-israel, when i was calling out seinfeld and his wife as as a israeli shill that was agitating protests in the campuses. plus i detect alot of tankies, tankies adjacent on that communities too. news i dont have problem with discuss similar issues. of course any stray users that are tankies i will block too, and then people that try to disguise thier comments as helpful but is actually be super condescending.

Haven't had to deal with a single power hungry mod since I've been here.

Should aggregate number of Lemmy and Piefed users (and maybe Mbin, NodeBB too), and see if the graph looks very different then

Have you blocked .ml?

I might be in the minority but I'm entirely comfortable with moderate explosive growth, it hasn't hurt bluesky one bit. Especially since explosive growth here implies reddit is dying.

Could be fedd.it was already taken

Personally I'd prefer to avoid reddit-ification, it had become very bad in the last few years

Probably because >50% of the posts on here are about depressing American politics

Well, this is really going to tank our quarterly report. What do you think the shareholders are going to say?!

only because you keep joining them, i blocked out the main politics instances/communities, and there was significantly less of those annoying ragebait posts that you cant seem to think if its a tankie posts, or astroturfed pro-israeli post. even on reddit i avoided most of them, because i been burned one too many times by those subs for pointing out ragebaiting, or bigotry.

they are all on reddit, where all the addiction is, and plus alot of the supermods seemed to be associated with the admins or is an admin themselves.

ee lacked admins, and some funding? that was the only problem. or some of the others they got burned out trying to do it themselves.

Let's talk about the Overton window.

At some point in time, the major social platforms will fuck up - probably by way of AI - and end up in a collective scandal that gives people a bad taste in their mouthes.

At that point y'all better have your talking points, framing, concepts and schpiel at the ready, because it'll be another chance to adopt even more users. So let me stress a couple of things:

You win more bees with honey, you should be more concerned about peoples wellbeing than your own opinion and start collecting valuable, objective and giving accounts - be they international, but most preferably local - across the fediverse to share with new users.

AGAIN!! You being a toxic little shit will repell people. If you REALLY CARE about GETTING PEOPLE OFF OF PREDATORY CORPORATE PLATFORMS plz be mindful, kind, shower, groom, keep your inside humor to your inside group, learn some rhetoric to improve your communication skills and remember:

you
win
more
bees
with
honey

Being on your A-game does not mean Asshole-game. Plz do not stink up the place.

i do agree with the sentiment, but i think we're largely okay on that front:

among the big problems with reddit for the past, say, 10-ish years, was the consolidation of subreddit moderation in relatively few, extremely influential mods. some of which where widely known to be assholes of one kind or another...

the very design of lemmy provides a kind of natural resistance to this phenomenon by spreading communities over many distinct servers, with distinct admins and moderation teams.

it's by no means perfect, but the simple fact that communities can choose to leave servers that have become unsuitable to hosting them (like we've already seen with some of the star trek comms leaving .world...i think that's the server they left?), it becomes more difficult for power tripping admins or mods to utterly ruin communities. it still causes major disruptions, of course, but i think it's a decent trade-off!

having already seen that part of the design in action; I'm really not that worried about lemmy turning into reddit.

what's much more concerning is eventually being overrun by sophisticated, hostile discourse manipulators like bot and troll farms. (if we ever get big enough to attract those...)

while decentralization provides resilience against enemies within, I'm not so sure it does the same for enemies without:
coordinating bot defense and using proper authentication for end-users to ensure that the people talking are actually, you know, people, is probably going to be extremely challenging... eventually, at least...

That is a naive point IMO. I have a 50+ word long block list, and I'm still getting US politics, tankie propaganda or climate doomer post on my mainly meme feed. I haven't figured out how to properly filter them out, but at that point the platform would look almost abandoned from the perceived lack of posts.