Hell, many of the communities barely show up when you search within Lemmy!

I know there are places on this site that I have no idea where they are, and I’ve been here like 2 months now.

This is one of the biggest opportunities in recent years for a new social media platform to come up and establish itself and Lemmy seems to be totally squandering the opportunity. The fact that the active user count is dropping so fast, should be very worrying.

I think a lot of it has been mentioned by @rr7@lemmy.world, but it isn’t just what is here, but also what isn’t there. Namely the lack of posts in communities outside a handful of political ones. Social media should be some form of conversation and yet if you go to lots of the slightly more esoteric communities and there are few posts and even fewer replies to those posts. You’ll basically be talking to yourself if you want to talk about cars or the latest gadget or asking for help on some DIY project.

There are like 50,000 active users. That is the metric that matters above all else.

People that make an account and never post (which is where that 400,000 number you are referring to comes from) means next to nothing. If the number of active users continues to decrease, then this site will be dead, regardless of what the user count it.

There is the old cliche that during holiday dinner there is always that one right-wing uncle who never shuts the fuck about politics (these days being during Thanksgiving and how great Trump is). Everyone finds what this uncle is saying is cringe as hell.

Well, that’s kind of what Lemmy is becoming, but for the far-left.

If it is in a political community, it is one thing. And to a large degree, I might even agree with most left-of-center views.

But there is an endless stream of edgy pro-commie and similar posts and a dearth of other light-hearted posts to counter balance it. Almost all communities outside the ones listed above get no traffic, so there’s no point in trying to start a conversation about cars or DIY projects or electronics. Hell, even the NSFW communities on Lemmy are rather lame.

I’m curious how long does your phone battery last these days?

It used to be that my early smartphones from years back would barely last a day and I’d be looking for a charger all the time. With my latest phone, on a reasonably heavy use day, I can go to bed with about 50 to 55% battery left. And last night, I barely used my phone at all and went to bed with like 65 to 70% battery left. And to be clear, it wasn’t sitting on a charger all day either. I got up, went to work and at the end of the night was left either enough battery to last be the entire weekend if I had continued the low usage.

Battery tech, and CPU and screen efficiency has advanced enough to where getting 2 days is not uncommon and I don’t care if it takes a couple of hours to recharge it at night. I also think much of the initial excitement of having a smartphone has died down so I’m not on it 24/7. Also having a tablet to offload some usage time helps as well.

So ultimately super fast chargers seem almost useless to me for most situations if they degrade the battery at all.

Internet Headline Rule 101: if a headline is in the form of a question, 9 times out of 10, the answer is no.

They are laughing at you, not with you.

I really didn’t think the Shield was going to be worth the money, but I’ve had the Pro for a while now after my smart TV’s own smart functions started to flake out. Definitely recommended

I’ve had situations where having a stylus even on the smaller screen of a phone wouod have been handy. Sketching with your finger is very crude. It’s not something I would pay a premium for and I wouldn’t want it robbing a bunch of space to fit it inside, but it would be a nice addition that I might use on and off.

I think they have to be way thinner when they are folded. Having a device that is essentially twice the thickness of a regular phone doesn’t seem comfortable.

Have one with my tablet and it’s great for sketching.

That worked. At least I believe it did.

I got no problems joining a community, but I don’t even see HOW to do so. Usually I see a “subscribe” button or something, but I have to sign in. But I am already signed in to Lemmy. Does this mean creating a whole new account? I don’t get how and why these various sites don’t work together.

There are sooooo many Linux folks here, it’s crazy. Which is fine if that’s what they want to use, but yeah this site has certain groups that overwhelm others.

So much this! Can there really be only a dozen or so posts in a community as wide as cars? Like seriously? I must have some setting messed up.

Homeassistant, HomeImprovement and woodworking are the only ones that I found that are mildly related and even then the traffic there is sparse.

I used the Communities link and searched for cars and DIY and engineering and subed to any of the ones which seem to have even a little bit of traffic (in the hopes that maybe things would increase eventually). For car ones, literally just “Cars” and “electric vehicles” are the only real one I bothered to sub to. Tried looking for Subaru or WRX stuff and that came up basically empty. For tinkering there is “3d Printing” and “woodworking” but I think the woodworking one is moving servers so it might disappear. Also “Machinist” but there’s no traffic in that one. Which is the case for far too many of the ones that come up.

I think the main subs are at a sustainable level, but not the niche subs. But Lemmy needs more than just politics and general news and complaining about Reddit to sustain itself.

As I replied to someone else, it doesn’t help that the content moves around. Was a post in one of the subs (are they even called subs here?) that they were changing servers which apparently would mean they’d disappear if you didn’t change your settings too. For such a simple thing, you’d think it would be automatic.

I have. And it did indeed get replies. Great! Then everything went dead again. Not so great.