I think what we can try to do is to create an active community.

In the old place, I recognized I really came for the comments. That's why I try to keep my threshold for commenting low and comment often.

Even if it's just to thank someone for a good comment or other low effort commenting, I like to think it helps.

We definitely need better onboarding. I am pushing for this on piefed via directs to newcomers@piefed.zip for new users to introduce themselves

It's that live now for Piefed.social ?

Is this counting Piefed?

I haven't checked personally. Requires making new accounts to check each time

• Clicks "All", "Top Six Hours"

  • Sees impersonal biased news sources reporting how bad the world is
  • Every post repetition of the one above it

• Clicks "Comments"

  • Scrolls for a while
  • Finds one person talking about how good their day is or one topic they're passionate about

No. It says lemmy only so no piefed or mbin

Unlimited growth is capitalist mindset. Stability and community are what we value here.

It should also fire when you manually make a user from the admin panel, if you want to test it out

https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/3-general/topic/Onboarding/near/7719

You're an admin IIRC?

Be the change you want to see. This is your time to shine.

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.