X has lost an estimated 40 million monthly active users in Brazil after the social network was banned in the country.

  • exanime@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In my case, I have the technical knowledge and spare hardware to host a small server. But, I find the value is too low for me to put in the effort

    Back in the day, in Reddit you could actually learn something, push your hobby, share some laughs. Reddit of course became a dumpster fire and I find it’s almost the same here

    As a user, no matter how I filter and tinker I cannot escape the diarrhea of USA politics in all communities; and to boot, any variation from the herd’s opinion is met with instant insults

    Today I find the fediverse is almost as bad as Reddit, only kept in check by the smaller size to be honest.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s sad because I had big hopes but the community here has worked against any hope of making it decent - it’s too confusing for a beginner to know where to sign up, if they do it’s a struggle to find active communities amid all the clones, and then if they try to participate all they’re get is abuse and downvotes if their opinion is a letter off from the accepted opinion.

      I would accept difficulties if people were at least trying to make it better but there’s never been any effort to work together improving things, no community get together or shared effort - just insults and bickering.