It is difficult to find conversations on the Fediverse that don’t boil down to “America bad” “Linux good” “is the Fediverse growing?” and if that trend keeps up for terribly much longer people will stop logging in because they’ve experienced all the platform has to offer. Even people who hate America and love Linux are going to wander off if you don’t show them enough cat pictures.
Threads like “ask a question and my guinea pig will type the answer” are way too rare here.
There’s a definite bent, but I actually don’t feel starved for diversity. Looking at the posts in my feed sorted by new, it’s about half America bad but there’s also miscellaneous news stories and programming memes. No ancient Roman memes or goofy maps today, but I also spend a lot of time on that.
I suspect the next people in line to sign up are also interested in OSS and unhappy with Trump, but less likely to actually post about it, so basically content will regress to the mean fast enough to keep up. We’ve already seen a lot of movement away from Marxist-Leninist politics, which is what the devs started with.
It is difficult to find conversations on the Fediverse that don’t boil down to “America bad” “Linux good” “is the Fediverse growing?” and if that trend keeps up for terribly much longer people will stop logging in because they’ve experienced all the platform has to offer. Even people who hate America and love Linux are going to wander off if you don’t show them enough cat pictures.
Threads like “ask a question and my guinea pig will type the answer” are way too rare here.
Do you see a bunch of “America bad” posts or a bunch of News/Discussions which places a negative light on America due to the bad things America does?
There’s a huge difference, people don’t typically get tired of being aware of and discussing current events.
There’s a definite bent, but I actually don’t feel starved for diversity. Looking at the posts in my feed sorted by new, it’s about half America bad but there’s also miscellaneous news stories and programming memes. No ancient Roman memes or goofy maps today, but I also spend a lot of time on that.
I suspect the next people in line to sign up are also interested in OSS and unhappy with Trump, but less likely to actually post about it, so basically content will regress to the mean fast enough to keep up. We’ve already seen a lot of movement away from Marxist-Leninist politics, which is what the devs started with.