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I've been here a year or more now, it seems busier than when I started but never became the "reddit alternative" that so many people promised. Not that I was actually expecting it.
I still have accounts on other major platforms but I'm far more restricted what I can say in more commercial sites like reddit or youtube now, I notice I get shadow'd if I so much as utter a political take that isn't approved for mainstream consumption. Lemmy still has a degree of freedom that reminds me of the early internet, but I know the site's days are numbered, like everyone.
Since I got here, there are more and more bots and shills and astroturfers creeping in, and I don't mean "I don't like what this person said so they must be a bot" way, but investigated and 99% sure they're fabricated accounts, especially the ones that popped up everywhere during things like the New York elections with account-ages all made at the same time, etc.
Lemmy is just one of a dwindling list of forums and sites that preserve the old way of internetting, but it's a dying thing. Younger people growing up on the internet don't chat on forums, they don't scroll reddit even. They have custom feeds on custom aggregators and they socialize with discord groups about specific topics and games and are far less involved with the idea of public discourse.
Reddit will die. Lemmy will die. All the old ways will pass, and new things will emerge. I've seen it over and over, and have ridden through them all.