On the train on the way to Netherlands vs USA, suns out, everyone is in good spirits so far, a bunch of us are headed out for a curry and quiet beer afterwards. Going to be a good day I reckon
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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Exciting, enjoy the match!
Another quiet one on here it seems :)
I read a post yesterday (on AskLemmy I think it was?), where someone was asking if they thought Lemmy had gotten a bit more quiet over the last few weeks, and someone answered that this would probably be the case where we see certain events drive a whole bunch of new users onto Lemmy, then slowly decrease until the next big event and so on, until Lemmy reaches a certain critical mass.
I wonder what the next big event would be that sees a lot of new users come here.
Yeah it's pretty normal for lots of people to try it out but go back to their old ways.
I would like to think we will grow slowly and organically over the next few months or year, because there are still a lot of issues with the software to sort out and it's just not ready for millions of users.
That may mean not a lot of content until the userbase grows, though if you browse in All sorted by New there are constantly new posts coming through. I'd encourage you to vote, comment, or post your own. Be the change you want to see :)
Sometimes I have nothing worthwhile to contribute, so I just lurk..
Just go read the All->New feed, upvote stuff you want to see and comment on things when you have something to say. It doesn't have to be groundbreaking, just comment that you enjoyed reading it to encourage the user to post more.
In terms of the local communities, go check the news and post interesting articles. For me, Lemmy has been the first place I've read various breaking news stories. That's something that stopped happening for me on reddit for some reason.
I do scroll All>New sometimes, there's a lot of duplicate posts to different communities I've found though. I tend to use that and switch between that and Top>6 hours and Top>12 hours as well. Sometimes I want to read other peoples comments which New won't have. Hot doesn't seem to work properly, it always ends up bringing up lots of old posts.
I should try just posting a bit more.
Yeah the Hot (and by extension Active) feeds have a known issue where if an old post is federated to us it doesn't get it's rank updated. This should be fixed in the next version.
I often read the Top Hour. This helps keep content fresh while having at least some level of popularity ordering.
I did see that you had commented on that thread around Lemmy's issues that need to be sorted out first.
Yeah been going through a bit of a busy stretch with work and moving houses, but hopefully I'll be more active on here going forward :)
I think a small steady community will be a nicer feel anyway. Just resist the urge to doomscroll on reddit, and instead when you run out of new stuff on Lemmy then go and do something productive with your time 🙂
Haha, yeah it's a bit of a behavioral change. My reddit doom scrolling has sort of migrated to Youtube Shorts Doom Scrolling, which I have found to be very addictive unfortunately :(
I may have suggested you do something productive, but just to be clear, I also don't spend my new found time being productive so don't feel too bad 🙂
Back to work today but there's a tray of chocolate muffins in the kitchen so it could be worse.
Damn, that's awesome
I hardly work in the office anymore, so I miss all the food 🙁
Yeah, previous job had a nice campus with food, coffee, nature, people etc, which I do miss from time to time. I don't however, miss the drive in and out. If we lived closer to work, that would probably get me going in every now and again.
My office has coffee machines which are a step up from instant coffee. But none of my colleagues and almost none of my stakeholders are local so going to the office just for coffee is a waste of a commute.
Luckily I can catch a train so don't have to drive, I much prefer 30 mins watching netflix on the train to spending 30+ minutes driving.