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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Did my part.
Waiting for some extremely confused person to walk in here
Geoguessr players about to pinpoint your exact location on a map
By the shadow I can tell this is on the summit of Liberal Mountain
Them bitches can come at me.
Putting a marker in my pocket for when I go out today. I'm doing this (assuming I'm not the first bit of graffiti)
this is the great dialectic!
they're both tentpoles of Hexbear Revolutionary Consciousness
are those even real?
I know effort is, I've never seen the others
How many of those new users are cannibals though? Release the stats, mod.
Mods are self-admittedly flooding us with posting scabs who will both eat our lunch and then subsequently also eat us.
maybe once they eat us, we can finally eat our damn lunch, inside their stomachs. fricking greedy cannibals man
we have an application now?! my open borders hexbear
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There used to be a way to see how many people were online, right? Did that go away completely, or is it just hiding behind CSS?
Right, but it used to say how many were online now?
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Gotcha.👍
Line of best fit with a logarithmic function on those data points suggests that without taking peaks into account, there are around 350 users online in any given hour. Maybe in the 250-500 range.
Thanks, but I was more wondering about like what our most active hours were and how that compared to other instances. Like I know we're all pulling nightshifts in moscow, but is that balanced out by our counterparts at Langley?
iirc it wasn't exactly accurate anyhow. At one point I believe it counted every tab as a user
I am the Hexbear tabs.
Yeah, something like that, but that's something that should've been easy to fix. Just wondering if the number was still available. Woulda been nice to know.
I believe the Lemmy backend is now accessible both through websockets and through HTTP endpoints. It doesn’t make the count impossible, but definitely complicates things. I don’t know why the decision was made to remove it, but I trust the devs didn’t remove it arbitrarily.
are you thinking of a phpBB website
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
526 of those users are feds and 278 are libs.
Love my rookie FBI shitposting-on-the-hexbear-for-salary working stiff comrade.
Unionize, my brothers and sisters! Reject the tyranny of the Professional Managerial Class and embrace a federal bureau of investigation 32 hour workweek!
Makes sense. If you've got the data to support that we aren't shrinking or growing at an unhealthy rate (because I think both are possible) then it's probably not much to worry about.
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So basically my impression is totally backwards, and actually we're growing, not shrinking. As is customary everyone please just ignore me I clearly have no idea what's going on
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.
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.
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.
me looking through four years of posting for opsec violations
Joke's on you a bunch of people already know where I live.
I'm actually a twink named Lube and I live on Liberal Mountain
There's way too much info on my account but I like my account and username
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
Reusing usernames between sites is one of the main ways that people get doxxed on forums like this, just fyi
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
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.
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
god I have 20k comments between a couple of accounts. you're reminding me I need to
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
Yeah, this is approximately my 420th account
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I do that. Not sure why.
Can't become an asshole if you were already an asshole
it's called an anal fistual
Smh I'm not an asshole I just type lol in response to every comment
Lots of exceptions to the rule getting upset about this one lol
lol
It has shifted a lot already. UlyssesT leaving allowed a lot more pro AI stuff to seep in.
I'm frequently making comments to the effect of "the recent advancements in AI are actually tangible and not just a grift for VC money, so we should be aware of the fact that it might not be a fad and it could represent a pretty big shift in power against labor". Is that what you're considering "pro AI stuff"? Because every time I mention it goes over like a lead balloon 'round these parts.
Because I don't consider that type of sentiment to be either pro or anti AI, but rather an observation of the material world.
no I meant the struggle session about if AI art is actually good because it lets disabled people draw or something. Which is like, yeah, but idk something about how people use AI art doesn’t make me think that’s it’s current social function (it’s what you’re saying, a tool against labor)
Right on, I'm just paranoid about being accused of being an AI bro!
understandable!
that's almost back to launch levels
Horsepoo theory
Who has gotten the most upbears in badposting?
Getting banned for bad posting is probably the high score
The best posting is that sweet spot between a post so good its bad and a post so bad its good.