do you think Lemmy is dead?

No

Yes. The lead singer of Motorhead died a few years ago.

Lemmy has minuscule portion of users compared to mainstream social media. It doesn't mean it's dead.

I like the current vibe. If Lemmy grew suddenly 10x, I’m sure some of that small place energy would be lost.
- It could afford to grow 10x but not 1000x.

Dead, no, stagnant, yes.

This. There is too little new people joining and not enough incentive to join.
Imho, the biggest deterrent beside the lack of users is the 'politics' that's almost everywhere (so, so often accompanied by anger when it's not hatred). Sure, it's more problematic on some instances than others but it's almost everywhere. That's also relatively easy to filter out of one's feed but it still needs to be filtered manually which may not be the most interesting thing a brand new user may want to do... that is if they have not already been dissuaded to join just by reading the default feed?
- The default Piefed onboarding process asks you how much politics you needs, hides at least "trump" and "musk" if you want to, and suggests you a list of diverse feeds/topics to join.
  Maybe it could be even more agressive and add other words to the blocklist, but it's not too bad as it is.

I came across in the big Reddit migration and while I loved the idea, it felt like every third post was about the meta or Reddit. I ended up dropping all social media. A few months ago I started passively reading Reddit again and as many predicted, the whole vibe is just off. So I began checking back here a bit and it's a bit closer to what I want now. It feels like there is a bit less going on than back then, and I'm totally okay with that.

Be active and be what you want to see. This is a community driven system and you will get a lot more out of a community by participating over just observing.

!fedigrow@lemmy.zip if you want to help build communities

There's too much in-fighting and drama for it to be dead.

I'm smoking weed about it.

Good to see you around
- Good to see you around
  💚 Thanks mate. I'm never too far away. I've had more going on IRL lately but I spend most of my time on crazypeople.online communities these days too. Mysteriously the vibe there is right up my alley. 😜

i feel as if I'm seeing more engagement on posts sometimes, so i would say no

numbers seem to disagree
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90
- I get that they've been dipping recently, but holy crow-- could it really be true that there are well over 9M posts by day?! oO (and ~14M comments per day?) No way am I seeing a tiny fraction of that in my ALL feed, altho I understand that's completely dependent on users at my instance being subscribed to communities around the FV.
  One other interesting stat is that the running Lemmy instances have steadily been going down, which is naturally going to delete lots of user accts and communities, likely explaining part of the situation, here. So what if the users who choose to stay, decide to sign up via a different service, thereby 'picking up the slack?' (Mbin, PF, etc)
  Indeed, on the whole the FV still seems to be growing:
  https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90
- People are moving to Piefed

Not that I can see

Subscribe to more communities

!trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe is good for finding new ones

Edit: Although the bot seems to have stopped posting recently, maybe it's moved?

That bot stopped working, !newcommunities@lemmy.world is probably the place to go

Throwing this out there in case you are just scrolling through "all":

Your instance is small and you won't see content from communities no one on your instance has subscribed to. An example:

I see posts from a community on "all" that I haven't subsribed to, but someone on my instance has subsscribed to said community. Otherwise we on sopuli would not be fetching updates from those communities and I wouldn't see it on "all".

There is a project (forgot name) that makes bots on instance subscribe to new communities from an instance but not sure if it's still working/set up on your instance.

https://lemmy-federate.com/
- That's the one, thanks Blaze.

A bit, yes. BUT I go away for a few months and then return to Lemmy with full force. When I'm active here it feels like an active space, when I'm not active, it feels a lil dead.

So the issue is more about the way you engage with the community.

Also I think Lemmy data is available. Posts per month, users etc.

It feels newborn, if anything. Like 30-40% of comments I see are from users < 30 days old.

<30 days old means nothing.
Lemmy users are more paranoid about government, could be just using discarding their accounts often.
I've been on lemmy since the reddit API thing, but this account is only 2 months because I've tried quitting lemmy a few times, and I failed because I'm bored and I need a soapbox to vent.
it feels like early reddit. a lot of the same style and content. and a lot of replies in threads that are trying way too hard to be edgelordy but just seem crude and naive.

Not even kind of.

I want a digest I can read for ten minutes a day, rather than spend six hours churning through a hellhole.

I have a life to live.

Okay, valid. I don't, so that makes sense.

Add more channels (?) I mean, I preferred passive consumption of content too. But in lemmy, there needs to be more posters.

I sort by new and hide anything read so I always get the freshest stuff. I like that there is a limit so I am more likely to close the app and so some reading or learning rather then scroll forever.

Definitely. Really nice to "run out" of posts to remember to actually close my app once in awhile.

It's not dead, it's just not matching the level of activity of users as the numbers of users there is reported on paper.

I'd like to see Lemmy get a lot of microcommunities like Reddit but the problem is, one user can do so much.

I don’t get that feeling at all. Maybe your instance isn’t federated with many other instances?

Also, what’s the comparison for what “alive” looks like? Lemmy’s like the message board I always wanted.

Try piefed. The frontpage experience is wildly different.

View all and block what you're not interested in, that way you automatically get to see all the new stuff.

I know I am. Spooky, huh?

Nah, seems like it's growing week after week.

Eh, its more alive than like ham radios or Meshtastic. More alive than Briar's Public Forums. Good enough I guess 🤷‍♂️

It’s definitely not growing at any real noticeable rate. Wouldn’t surprise me if the MAUs is trending downwards. Seems to just be the same 50 people cross posting and commenting.

Compared to reddit? Yep. But I'm brand new and I like the quieter vibe. Although I've got no idea how this platform works, I do feel like im cut off from stuff as a feddit. Uk person

Welcome!
!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
!newcommunities@lemmy.world

At least my list of content filters keeps growing every day so more and more threads gets hidden. There's not really much content here for people who are not into politics or rage inducing news articles. Sometimes I wonder why I even keep coming back here.

Memes and furries
- The memes in !memes@lemmy.world are tepid at best, I need a better source...

I feel like there’s more going on now.

Nope.