About the 5 years anniversary of chapo.chat ... thank God I didn't enter in the first 3 years of it. (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago by Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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)

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[-] regul@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

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)