submitted 8 months ago by Infamousblt@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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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[-] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

I feel you. I hate scrolling through page after page of threads that are just a news article link with no commentary, no posts.

A lot of our content is essentially "hexbear reacts to [current event]" and then "[current event] meta posts", and current events are in a lull or we've exhausted all there is to say about Trump, Biden, Palestine, climate change, etc.

At some point, hexbear probably will die. Think of how many forums you've posted on before here, how many are still around? I don't want it to, I have nowhere else I want to post, but it'll happen. And then we'll logout and do something else

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

"Current event"

I'm not really posting much because there isn't really anything funny happening, there isn't anything left to say about most of the major geopolitical problems, we've scraped the bottom of the barrel for novel expressions of horror and irony poisoning, and i'm not doing anything local to be angry about.