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Is Hexbear dying? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

As others have said, you're not the first to feel this way. I logged on yesterday for the first time in several months after thinking the same and I was pleasantly surprised at the level of activity. I've had mixed feelings about federation but feel like it paid off, though I mostly keep my feed to 'local'. Hell, 2024 might even be the year I finally make a post.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago

    Don't let your dreams be dreams. This is what the badposting comm is for. No posts are bad posts but for folks who don't believe in themselves yet, that's a place to start.

    But you can also just post directly the the chapotraphouse comm too like I always do. If my posts belong here everyone's posts belong here

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