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Honestly don't know if I'll keep using Lemmy. Been 2+ years now that Lemmy has been the only social media I use and can't say that its doing anything for me other than being a outlet for my shitposting. Lemmy feels pretty empty. People dont DM. There aren't many coms with core regulars that create a community. Saying anything beyond basic obvious sarcasm opens you to being banned from entire instances. There aren't many instances that allow the user to decide what they want to see, using the tools that lemmy provides, and defederate or block entire instances.
In 2025 Lemmy is at like 50k active users. Still no community or connection like the forums I used in 2005 with 500 users. Still no community or connection like the subreddits I used in 2015 with 5k users.
Kinda thinking the internet really is dead, even on our outlier of federated open source social media.
Why would you want people to DM you?
Personal connection. Building relationships. Growing community. Realizing we're intricate humans and have a lot to share. Nobody has ever DMed me. I've DM a handful of people but it's obviously such a foreign concept that it never lasts.
Some of my closest friends I made via DM/pm on small forums 20 years ago.