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It was pretty rough for the first 2 years, but I feel like the overall popularity is growing, and in general it's attracting more of the type of person I'm interested in talking with.
Sure, even highly intelligent people can be jerks at times, and I'm no exception. But despite the friction that all discussion forum have, overall the community is just better for me.
I can talk about all kinds of different types of technical and artistic interests and when I do, people pop out of the woodwork to share connect and share their experiences. I am frequently informed by others here and I in turn can share my knowledge. That makes it worth it.
the ban waves saw to that, a slight increase in lemmy users, i am disappointed how some lemmy instances tend to shut down due to lack of funding or admins.
This is the answer I most relate to. I feel the same way.
I miss some subreddits I was part of in the old days that just aren’t replicated here but the fediverse is not as broad. The knowledge base that did move here feels deeper though. I just hope it doesn’t become an echo chamber because it is too narrow.
oh those same sub reddits, i assume large or moderate ones, are currently complaining how the bots are so much frequent now. plus reddits also auto-deleting comments or posts without significant reason. at least we surmise its due to right wing shift of the site. any significant pro-gaza, or anti-kirk or trump is sucsceptible to being deleted.
I feel like the amount of knowledge and expertise in the overall community is very high.
I also think this platform suffers from the same issue that is natural and normal in every other sharing platform: very few people contribute, most people just drink from the content hose.