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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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You are right though, that a lot of old power posters have either left or aren't posting as much.

That happens though, and it's good that we're seeing growth as the "vanguard" is stepping back. That means the general culture of the site has been defined and growth is slow enough that it won't suddenly shift anytime soon.

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It’s very rare to find someone who can post that hard for an extended period of time without becoming an asshole about it. User churn is good in a lot of ways. People should be taking breaks as they deem it healthy.

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Though keep in mind just because a user doesn’t post here, doesn’t mean the person themselves aren’t still here. After 7k comments I’m concerned about how much info I’ve posted, so I plan on not using this account anymore and using a new one. I know I’m not the only one, either.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

side-eye-1

[–] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

me looking through four years of posting for opsec violations awooga

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

Joke's on you a bunch of people already know where I live.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

I'm actually a twink named Lube and I live on Liberal Mountain

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There's way too much info on my account but I like my account and username agony-deep

Uhhh so is everyone's friend on here reusing their usual username on this site?

I wonder how bad of an idea it would be to have an "opsec service" on here where you could request people to look into your account and see how opsec-fucked you are

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reusing usernames between sites is one of the main ways that people get doxxed on forums like this, just fyi

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeahh my friend knows this they just enjoy having a unified internet presence

Idk, maybe I'll have to try doxxing my friend (without actually doxxing doxxing) and help to clean up their internet presence

[–] glans@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

my friend knows this they just enjoy having a unified internet presence

your friend should use shampoo on the inside and scrub that terrible idea out of their brain. nobody cares except that person and some fucking freak who may one day decide to go to personal, intimate war with them.

embrace the serially pseudonymous internet

i hope your friend is at least using a password manager so their passwords are not also shared amongst websites.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeahh this friend has decent security practices (use of password manager, encryption, metadata deletion, lack of conventional social media at all lol, etc) otherwise but they really need to find the energy sometime to clean up their... "online footprint" and probably do need to get over that idea lol

I really do want to live in a world where people can be themselves if they want to without having to be prepared for some reactionary piece of shit hunting them down though

It seems like recycling online identities every few months would make finding and keeping friends more difficult

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

god I have 20k comments between a couple of accounts. you're reminding me I need to logout

[–] Des@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

every time i think i've been too excessive on here i just check out another users posts/comment totals

lol i can probably keep this account as primary a bit longer

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is approximately my 420th account

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

420th account

based

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't become an asshole if you were already an asshole smuglord

[–] glans@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

it's called an anal fistual young-sheldon

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Smh I'm not an asshole I just type lol in response to every comment

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

Lots of exceptions to the rule getting upset about this one lol