do you think Lemmy is dead?

No

Lemmy has minuscule portion of users compared to mainstream social media. It doesn't mean it's dead.

Dead, no, stagnant, yes.

i feel as if I'm seeing more engagement on posts sometimes, so i would say no

Not that I can see

Subscribe to more communities

!trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe is good for finding new ones

Edit: Although the bot seems to have stopped posting recently, maybe it's moved?

I came across in the big Reddit migration and while I loved the idea, it felt like every third post was about the meta or Reddit. I ended up dropping all social media. A few months ago I started passively reading Reddit again and as many predicted, the whole vibe is just off. So I began checking back here a bit and it's a bit closer to what I want now. It feels like there is a bit less going on than back then, and I'm totally okay with that.

Be active and be what you want to see. This is a community driven system and you will get a lot more out of a community by participating over just observing.

Throwing this out there in case you are just scrolling through "all":

Your instance is small and you won't see content from communities no one on your instance has subscribed to. An example:

I see posts from a community on "all" that I haven't subsribed to, but someone on my instance has subsscribed to said community. Otherwise we on sopuli would not be fetching updates from those communities and I wouldn't see it on "all".

There is a project (forgot name) that makes bots on instance subscribe to new communities from an instance but not sure if it's still working/set up on your instance.

A bit, yes. BUT I go away for a few months and then return to Lemmy with full force. When I'm active here it feels like an active space, when I'm not active, it feels a lil dead.

So the issue is more about the way you engage with the community.

Also I think Lemmy data is available. Posts per month, users etc.

There's too much in-fighting and drama for it to be dead.

I'm smoking weed about it.

Add more channels (?) I mean, I preferred passive consumption of content too. But in lemmy, there needs to be more posters.

Not even kind of.

I want a digest I can read for ten minutes a day, rather than spend six hours churning through a hellhole.

I have a life to live.

Yes. The lead singer of Motorhead died a few years ago.

I sort by new and hide anything read so I always get the freshest stuff. I like that there is a limit so I am more likely to close the app and so some reading or learning rather then scroll forever.

I don’t get that feeling at all. Maybe your instance isn’t federated with many other instances?

Also, what’s the comparison for what “alive” looks like? Lemmy’s like the message board I always wanted.

It feels newborn, if anything. Like 30-40% of comments I see are from users < 30 days old.

Try piefed. The frontpage experience is wildly different.

View all and block what you're not interested in, that way you automatically get to see all the new stuff.

It's not dead, it's just not matching the level of activity of users as the numbers of users there is reported on paper.

I'd like to see Lemmy get a lot of microcommunities like Reddit but the problem is, one user can do so much.

Nah, seems like it's growing week after week.

It’s definitely not growing at any real noticeable rate. Wouldn’t surprise me if the MAUs is trending downwards. Seems to just be the same 50 people cross posting and commenting.

I know I am. Spooky, huh?

Eh, its more alive than like ham radios or Meshtastic. More alive than Briar's Public Forums. Good enough I guess 🤷‍♂️

Nope.

Compared to reddit? Yep. But I'm brand new and I like the quieter vibe. Although I've got no idea how this platform works, I do feel like im cut off from stuff as a feddit. Uk person

I feel like there’s more going on now.

At least my list of content filters keeps growing every day so more and more threads gets hidden. There's not really much content here for people who are not into politics or rage inducing news articles. Sometimes I wonder why I even keep coming back here.