In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.
My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.
Now I’m taking a break. I won’t post anything or I’ll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content 😢?)
But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.
However… I’m just curious.
Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?
Edit: I will still post stuff. I’ll just post a lot less!
yeah I don’t know exactly how these things work, but I did notice that all my comments in one popular sub all had exactly 1 view and vanished if I logged out. And my post history there isn’t much different from here, it’s not like I’ve been going there to troll and spam. I guess the wrong mod (or bot) decided that they didn’t like people objecting to genocide? My posts in other subs still appear as normal.
some subs might have filters on to automatically remove or hide comments its definitely more pervasive now.
What’s disturbing about it is the effect it has on the actual dialog. The mods have basically zero public oversight, so you have no idea when you read a sub what kind of manipulation has happened to the conversation you’re reading, both directly and indirectly (chilling effect).
It turns out that the Capitalism version of internet censorship is even more insidious and manipulated by shadowy forces, than even the Chinese government’s version.
For added scarytimes, consider that all the LLMs are being trained on this shit.
and reddit filters is seperate from the mod ones, so they can ovveride the sub filters and ban or remove your comment randomly too. im sure certain subs are protected as some mods are either power mods, or have connections with the admins.