Funny to think I wasn’t here in these 2020-2023 years

As much as I have read many struggle sessions here, I believe the current atmosphere is much more chiller compared to the previous period (note to self- I’ll prolly elaborate later)

  • regul [any]@hexbear.net
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    It’s “chiller” because the number of posters keeps going down.

    I drastically preferred the old sub because it was a lively and well-populated leftist space that preferred dunking to scolding.

    Here is not that. There just aren’t enough posters. I don’t think a place like that really exists anymore.

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      It’s “chiller” because the number of posters keeps going down.

      ? we peaked at ~950 DAU in late 2024 down to a little over 850 now, in 2023 there were only 550ish. This is based on the wayback machine giving numbers so it may be a little off. From what I remember, most of the drop from 950 to 850 was a single drop after the election (maybe the USAID cuts costanza-maoist )

    • CARCOSA [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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      Do you have numerical proof of it going down or is this vibes based? Based on the average number of active users we have generally been slowly growing (around 2%) for years with large activity spikes around major events. We are easily in the top 5 most active lemmy instances (lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemmynsfw, lemmy.ml and hexbear)