Where'd everybody go?

I can only speak for myself:

I'm here, still reading and voting, but I haven't posted/commented as much recently.

Life got a bit busy, should be back to normal in a bit

The irony is that those those that aren't here can't answer why they left.

Mostly making sure I didn't miss some new drama thing or whatnot. Usually those have peripheral observers that will speak up. Friday nights (SoCal) are kinda hit or miss anyways, but we've been trending down a good bit recently.
- What communities do you check that are more quiet now?
- You're SoCal? One of the things I do miss about the other place was the Los Angeles sub. The one here is practically non-existent.

Contrary to certain self-victimizing sentiments, I think that the problem is that the platform is more and more overtaken by the topic of the election (and Israel in reference thereto) and it just results in interminable arguing in circles that accomplishes nothing but wasting time. Regardless of the outcome of the election, I think less-annoying activity will increase afterwards.

A lot of users on here have an unhealthy obsession with bringing up awful events everywhere all the time - donating and raising awareness is good but turning every topic around to be about specific conflicts and political happenstance in a forum already saturated with that content isn't encouraging for other people to engage and probably isn't conducive to mental wellness either

For me, life is happening and I just have less time

The_piccard_manoeuvre is in holiday.

Well, my guess is people got depressed discussing who is the less genocidal candidate to govern the most military powerful country on Earth.

I've been wondering how much of that is back to school. I have the sense that Lemmy has a lot of younger users. I can't judge though as I've been inactive for long stretches due to life. I've been trying to contribute more now

I always get the impression the average user is a millennial

It feels like everything in All is about an election in the USA, and that's really not very engaging to the rest of us. So I mostly hang out in Local for the most part.

Eh, I usually just lurk, unless I have something meaningful to contribute (which is rare, my mind is blank and tired most of the time)

I'm trying to break my long habit of lurking, I'd like to see the platform grow so I help where I can

Don't worry, I'm still here

i'm glad you're here :3

federated platform splits userbase into a million little fiefdoms, only somewhat interconnected, all differently starved for interaction

Yup, checks out

Instances run like communities with communities more like hashtags seem fine.

Start of school breaks in some countries in Europe. Could have an impact as people are busy with their kids

i wonder how many ppl on lemmy have children

I mean, it's the ml. People, including myself, have had very bad experiences in ml communities and what I've seen is a general consensus to avoid them. As I type this I even expect it to be removed or at least down voted to hell for daring to say this, as ml does. I can accept the community just isn't for me, but the question was asked.

What are you talking about? This is about overall activity.
- There was no context given. They didn't say site or community. How do you know it's about overall activity? You seem to be assuming as much as I am.
  Also you, you specially are actually big problem in the ml community. I've seen you interact with enough people who all seem to suspiciously be censored.... Hrmmm.... I've also heard plenty of people reference you. You personally have done a lot of damage to the ml community.
  Edit: that might have been extreme in calling you out. I won't remove and try to hide it, but I apologize. To clarify, I've seen people who interact with you often been censored, which really discourages conversation, a big part of this platform.

Down down to goblin town.

Was (not was) - Walk the dinosaur featured on the live action Flintstones movie.

Also feel free to join !casualconversation@lemm.ee

For me, there's just been less posted that I feel I have something to say on. If I see something about programming, networking or tech that I have (probably) some useful info to contribute I will do so. Likewise if there's a general subject I have anecdotal points to make, or I'm just genuinely interested I will comment too.

But otherwise, I just read and move on. There's been a lot more read and move on lately. Maybe because of the upcoming US election for which by and large beyond the fact I don't want the orange shitgibbon (As a fan of the west wing, I like that the spelling checker suggested shibboleth to correct this "typo") to win, I don't have much interest. Mostly because I'm not from the US.

People made too many power user praise posts and all 3 of them decided to take a break

Considerably less powerful users, rise up!

Was immensely busy and focused to finish my university meanwhile trying to get bit of peace through reading books and gaming.

Also nowadays mainly use rss-feed for everything (Blogs, News, Reddit and Lemmy).

Just not getting the interesting questions as often afaict.

Just left Reddit and noticed the same thing, sucks since I'm shadowbanned on Reddit, can't go back even if I wanted to.

Just for me personally - I've tried going back to traditional forums. It's irritating that when I sign up and contribute to a board a few times, I get a temp ban for potentially being a bot

Depends on the instance. Hexbear, for example, is still quite active.

Shii idk what u talkin about i deleted my old reddits and migrated fully 😁

The entire front page is filled with Trump sneezing. Psyop is too obvious.