I post quite a bit here but it feels so damn quiet. Why?

  • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMEnglish
    45·
    2 years ago

    What do you want? Do you want to see more posts/comments?

    Beehaw is, specifically, curated for those who want high quality rather than a dumpster fire of trolls and assholes.

    So, quality vs quantity.

  • BennyCHill@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    You guys are defederated from the two most active instances i see on my ‘all’ feed, lemmy.world and hexbear.net, and also a bunch of minor instances that still pop up pretty often like sh.itjust.works, lemmygrad.ml and lemmit.online.

    Y’all live in a tiny bubble inside the already relatively small bubble that is lemmy.

      • WamGams@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        If you are a member of the Iranian military who has been tasked with pretending to be a trans-communist in effort to convert lgbt kids into the Islamic extremist fold, .ml is the place for you.

        If you aren’t that, it’s probably unsafe.

      • BennyCHill@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        It performs well and is connected with all of the instances with the most active users. migrating is pretty annoying on lemmy tho but was worth it for me.

        • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          performs well

          It really does!

          If you’re trying to spread propaganda and silence people you don’t want having a voice.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I feel the opposite.

    Now I have feeds from Malasia to SGerman speaking Swiss, and watched highlights of the Sydney Swans beating the Giants in Australia Rules Football and although I have no personal experience in Malay or Swiss worldviews, and have absolutely no clue on what is happening in the Aussie match, I really enjoyed seeing them as opposed to the procured algorithm commercials that the resto of social media presents today.

  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been commenting less because it feels like the amount of vitriol is going up. Why stress myself with people’s responses when no one really cares what I have to say

  • JCPhoenix@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    It’s definitely quiet around here. But you know, reddit or any other social media wasn’t built in a day, so Lemmy/Beehaw won’t either!

    Thanks for posting so much though. You’re not the first person I’ve seen make comments about the seeming lack of activity, but you at least try to change that!

  • toothpicks@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Idk lots of people are posting in the tech community and people are sharing news stories but none of that interests me very much so yeah it seems quiet to me too

  • Caffeinated_Capybara@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    It’s kinda the nature of the platform I feel like. The Fediverse is a bit confusing of a concept so it’s less mainstream. On top of that, the content can be fragmented across different instances that might defederate with each other. Things could pick up in the future though, especially if people keep using the platform.

  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy’s interop with the microblogging portion of the Fediverse (which is by far the largest part) sucks. You can’t follow users, so there’s no way to pull in content from there and there’s no hashtag support built in for posts, so Lemmy posts don’t get to take advantage of the discoverability features on the microblogging side. Beehaw in particular is picky with whom they federate, but it shouldn’t matter since there’s plenty of microblogging instances that share their ethos. I was already a Mastodon user for a few years prior to any of the exoduses and it bummed me out that you guys didn’t get to experience Fedi in its full glory because of these limitations. Hopefully the next platform that Beehaw migrates to will be better about this.