Slow, mostly tech- and politics- focused (for me, as I follow plenty lemmygrad communities), and to be honest kind of boring. I'd open it up once in a blue moon, check if there was some content, "nope", and then move on.

Now though? I'm probably a few hours straight here, drinking my yerba and using it.

It was very small and slow, every post had max 50 upvotes and like 10 comments (maybe more on the more political ones, where trolls reigned) There was a new post once in a blue moon, you could scroll at 10,and find the same content that you would find at 22.

I joined a year ago btw, it was like this until the mass migration 1 week ago or so

You could come to lemmy once a month, and see just about nothing change.

It was not nearly as fun as it is now

https://lemmy.ml/u/Communist from a 4 year old account.

It was... sleepy. One guy provided half the content. Particular topics had like max 30 people interested enough to click the arrows, usually way less. Hell, even the few trolls we had were usually recycled.