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It feels like it's dying. Just anecdotally it seems like there have been less threads lately, less quality threads, and less discussion overall. More anecdotally I feel like the last couple of federation / defederation slap fights ended with many users leaving as well. I can think of a few who left because we were federating, some who left because we then subsequently defederated from lots of the fediverse, and then even a few who said they would leave if we didn't defederate and then left anyway when we did.

I feel like mostly overall I have seen very few new posters, and have seen less and less of some certain power posters.

Is this just a illusion or is this really what's happening. What is to be done?

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assumed this was a joke post

Ive been here the whole while, and currently it feels quite healthy actually, to me at least, compared to where it's been at difficult times

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[–] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

come back bmf, they don't appreciate you on the trueanon sub

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

No it seems fine

[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Yes and no. Hexbear as a political project is more or less dead. It's been that way since the first year or so. It's more or less just a club for commie shitposting now. I used to do organizing/theory on Hexbear, now I just use it for non-political posting.

Hexbear, barring some huge shift, will stay around this size for the next few years and experience a slow decline until shutdown. It is a site just past its peak experiencing a slow fall to obscurity that all things must go through eventually.

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think a bunch of those people would have left either way, they just weren't that socially functional.

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[–] _metamythical@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

It used to be around 500 daily users , now it's at 900. So, it's not decreasing, but maybe not increasing by as much I guess.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

has netcraft confirmed it though?

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

That'll be the true death

[–] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

I'm not on hexbear because of the federation issues, I still enjoy the instance from my .ml account. Not a poster though

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