Right now, I don't think that I can tell people in good faith that this is a healthy community to come to.
What happened to federating with Lemmy? That seems like the best way to grow. As I understand it, it allows people to make new sites if they don't like the vibe of this site, while still remaining connected to posts or people they might like. Do I have that right?
I agree a lot with this. There is tons of "we need to make this community like this or that" and it feels weird because it's not really a community. People just want to chill and that's really the main aim any forum like this one should keep in mind, and neither bigotry nor non stop drama are good for that (not saying that to oppose the claim growth should be happening, it really should and it's a fair point). It's really become much less enjoyable to be around. At first I was a bit sad about some users (both trans users who were upset about the whole thing and users who were unfairly banned who just got pissed about the whole thing and left after getting unbanned anyways) leaving, but now? I don't care, like, wtf are they missing out on by not being here any more? And what are we missing by them not being around if all the discussions are just shit drama? I left too for a couple weeks because the atmosphere was getting gross and mean spirited and I made the mistake of letting it get to me, now that I'm back (thanks Capitol riots) everything looks so stupid.
At this point I kinda support just closing it down for 3 days or whatever just so people log the fuck off for a while and then aggressively pursue new users.
I want to laugh at funny memes that make fun of the awful world we live in, crack jokes with people with similarly morally calibrated senses of humor, get leftist news about events and places I wouldn’t get otherwise (something that has massively dropped off from the sub to this site, I might add) and get dopamine rushes from sparkly big number on bear.
As do I, and us all. That shared desire we have is what unites us and makes this website a community. A community is just a group of living things with commonality. Furthermore, all of those things you and I like to enjoy rely on there being other people here to share them with us. New users mean new and more varied (better) content so growth is very important. You say we don't have as leftist much news, something I also wish there was more of here, well that's a growth problem.
Now I'm not also not sure what makes a community "healthy" or not, but I know if a community stops growing it withers and dies.
Fair enough. It seems like it would be a lot easier to make that place if we federated. I think. I admit I'm not 100% clear on how that works so maybe I look like a huge dumbass.
I just made an account on lemmy.ml, and there's a lot of leftist news there.
Right now, I don't think that I can tell people in good faith that this is a healthy community to come to.
What happened to federating with Lemmy? That seems like the best way to grow. As I understand it, it allows people to make new sites if they don't like the vibe of this site, while still remaining connected to posts or people they might like. Do I have that right?
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I agree a lot with this. There is tons of "we need to make this community like this or that" and it feels weird because it's not really a community. People just want to chill and that's really the main aim any forum like this one should keep in mind, and neither bigotry nor non stop drama are good for that (not saying that to oppose the claim growth should be happening, it really should and it's a fair point). It's really become much less enjoyable to be around. At first I was a bit sad about some users (both trans users who were upset about the whole thing and users who were unfairly banned who just got pissed about the whole thing and left after getting unbanned anyways) leaving, but now? I don't care, like, wtf are they missing out on by not being here any more? And what are we missing by them not being around if all the discussions are just shit drama? I left too for a couple weeks because the atmosphere was getting gross and mean spirited and I made the mistake of letting it get to me, now that I'm back (thanks Capitol riots) everything looks so stupid.
At this point I kinda support just closing it down for 3 days or whatever just so people log the fuck off for a while and then aggressively pursue new users.
As do I, and us all. That shared desire we have is what unites us and makes this website a community. A community is just a group of living things with commonality. Furthermore, all of those things you and I like to enjoy rely on there being other people here to share them with us. New users mean new and more varied (better) content so growth is very important. You say we don't have as leftist much news, something I also wish there was more of here, well that's a growth problem.
Now I'm not also not sure what makes a community "healthy" or not, but I know if a community stops growing it withers and dies.
Fair enough. It seems like it would be a lot easier to make that place if we federated. I think. I admit I'm not 100% clear on how that works so maybe I look like a huge dumbass.
I just made an account on lemmy.ml, and there's a lot of leftist news there.
Lol yeah that's was supposed to be the main goal