It feels like it's dying. Just anecdotally it seems like there have been less threads lately, less quality threads, and less discussion overall. More anecdotally I feel like the last couple of federation / defederation slap fights ended with many users leaving as well. I can think of a few who left because we were federating, some who left because we then subsequently defederated from lots of the fediverse, and then even a few who said they would leave if we didn't defederate and then left anyway when we did.

I feel like mostly overall I have seen very few new posters, and have seen less and less of some certain power posters.

Is this just a illusion or is this really what's happening. What is to be done?

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[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s very rare to find someone who can post that hard for an extended period of time without becoming an asshole about it. User churn is good in a lot of ways. People should be taking breaks as they deem it healthy.

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Though keep in mind just because a user doesn’t post here, doesn’t mean the person themselves aren’t still here. After 7k comments I’m concerned about how much info I’ve posted, so I plan on not using this account anymore and using a new one. I know I’m not the only one, either.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

god I have 20k comments between a couple of accounts. you're reminding me I need to logout

[–] Des@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

every time i think i've been too excessive on here i just check out another users posts/comment totals

lol i can probably keep this account as primary a bit longer

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this is approximately my 420th account

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can't become an asshole if you were already an asshole smuglord

[–] glans@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

it's called an anal fistual young-sheldon

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Smh I'm not an asshole I just type lol in response to every comment

[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

lol

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Lots of exceptions to the rule getting upset about this one lol