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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[-] pooh@hexbear.net 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Having been here since basically the beginning, I feel like it’s only gotten better. Some good changes I’ve noticed:

Far more explicitly pro trans than it was initially
Generally seems like more of an effort is made to be welcoming
More activity and fun community events like movie nights
Struggle sessions are more or less a joke and angry struggle sessions seem much more rare

Some things I miss:

Posters like tervell, brookebaybee, UlyssesT, and others who aren’t as active or no longer around at all. If you’re out there reading this, come back and say hi!
President Parrot has also disappeared from the public eye following the last scandal that was in the news. I think it was the one where President Parrot was naked or something.
Also, this was kind of always an issue, but there are lots of smaller commas that could use more love.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tervell posts all the time, mostly to videos and guns. He posted to videos 2 hours ago in fact. Perhaps he blocked you or vice versa (which, sorry to hear if that happened...reminder to everyone that if you blocked other Hexbears you should go through periodically and unblock them to see if you still want them blocked). But yeah, there are plenty of posters who have dropped off over the years never to return. It's sad.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

You’re right! And I can see their posts which is great news. Not sure way, but I just haven’t been seeing them as frequently. Maybe it’s the comms I browse or time of day I pop in.

[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

I have been posting somewhat less, since I've just already posted a lot of the stuff I had - it's only really /c/guns that I regularly post to now, and /c/videos & /c/games to a lesser extent. My supply of sword pics was a lot smaller than the one of gun pics, so /c/history's pretty rare, although maybe enough time has passed to repost some stuff, I dunno.

I think with the Lemmy updates there were also some sorting algorithm changes - I think Active got changed, then Scaled was introduced which was supposedly closer to the original Active, but then I think maybe Active got changed again, and I'm not sure how things sit right now, I'm still on Scaled myself. And finally, it could just be timezone differences.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

i was goin back through my early posting history here and i've noticed this site's become way less aggressive. i think we've come a long way since the transition from chapo.chat

second missing those users. some really great posting.