Started to participate in discussion more and pleasantly surprised actual conversations happen and the comment section is not flooded with generic bot shit within minutes.

In my view, Lemmy ecospace became a lot more dark. People are snarkier, less prone to engage in polite conversation and divergent opinions get hounded.

I also sense an increased tendency for doom and gloom. Nihilism is on the rise, as well.

A lot more comments like reddit that are the quick (very tired) zingers. I was happy to get away from that but I'm sort of thinking of putting lemmy down if it gets worse.

I don't need your "this." Or "broken arms" or "that's insulting to trash" etc.

It's beyond tired. But it gets up voted and can dominate the comments section. I appreciate threads like this one that promote actual discussion.

Lemmy is teaching me things by accident.

Most recently; I've started learning media literacy and now I can see all the same manufactured consent and narrative shaping that exists in legacy media and social media like Facebook and reddit; but in .world and lemmee too

Lemmy has become my main social media outlet. For better or worse, Lemmy's just my kind of place. I'm off of all mainstream social media except LinkedIn, which I barely use, but keep around for work related reasons.

I do still peruse Reddit, mainly for TV shows and niche subjects I can't find here. But I haven't logged in or posted since the first major exodus over the API pricing, and have no plans of returning.

I do post on Mastodon from time to time, but the format is just too geared towards short form content, and ultimately just isn't my cup of tea.

So yeah. I'm generally happy to be here with you all shooting the shit about politics, Linux, etc. Long live Lemmy!

It’s actually had content for me now

It's become clear that Lemmy is not about to take off. For most users, it's probably a fine Reddit clone, but it's not about to replace the big R.

I'm sure that will change in 2025. 🧌

Starting to see different people reposting stuff on similar communities, which reminds me a lot of that other site. Not a huge fan.

I've also started noticing people downvoting instead of engaging when they disagree with something as well, which is frustrating.

More content and more comments. I basically only use mastodon and lemmy for my memes nowadays and as general social media.

My participation has dropped a lot compared to when I only just joined. There is only so much us centric doomer content I can stomach, and Lemmy is so extremely political that it is impossible to just browse cat memes and have a good time. So I spend less time here I suppose.

Well, I'm here now. So there's that.

You're welcome. /s

All of the "a vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide" spammers mysteriously disappeared

Edit: my point is that they seem awfully quiet about Trump

With the end of the US election, there has been a bit of an ideological demographic shift, but more of a strong wind than a foundational upset.

It seems more active now. Which has been great!

The cell phone apps are a lot better nowadays. They look a lot better.

I've been posting more fedi content instead of just the popular links.

Lemmy is my only social media interaction these days, the content has improved, and the communities feel more distinct than they did a year ago. That could just be me getting up to speed though.

It was a nice surprise finding out that the left wing instances on here are actually pretty chill, way more so than on Reddit these days.

I see a lot less but muh Media Bias/Fact Check now than I did a year ago.

I feel like there's less Canadian content. After the Reddit API Exodus, there was a fair bit, but that dropped off.

Not enough jeans. :(

Real answer: there's been an uptick in the amount of content lately, which is great. I've also unfortunately noticed an uptick in belligerent comments, which often detracts from the conversations taking place.

I got banned from the Canada community and according to the mod log, it was for homophobia and bigotry.

That really rubs me the wrong way because I’ve never ever posted anything like that. I’ve been the subject of homophobic and bigotry based bullying my whole life and the only comment I posted on that topic there was an account of my first hand experience of being catfished on Grindr and then outed as bi on the towns facebook page and subjected to ridicule and harassment.