Has SW become really quiet these day, or have long term members just settled into like minded tribes and become insular. Not a judgement in any way, I am just being curious.
@OogieBoogie Im same way i MOVED TO California in the laten 1950es live there till 1984,,,people there love the southern droull i call it, after 30 years i spoke like thay did,,moved to Tennessee now i speak southern some what,,
I got algorithmed to the back of the bus and only see a fraction of whats posted so yeah it looks slow to me. I only see maybe 10 new questions before the posts start repeating.
@Beetlejuice68 I've never collected hundreds of friends. I thought it defeats the purpose. Collect friends to get that number up? That might be the problem. I'm only seeing the conversations my friends list are involved in.
It has become very quiet. The most active members all bailed or are seldom online anymore because they've got shit happening in their real lives (pregnancies, relationships, struggles, etc).
I think there are three or four main clusters of users, and blocking keeps people from seeing much outside their cluster. The right-wing politicals block the left-wing politicals and vice-versa. And then the "I hate politics" & "lets talk sex" crowds blocks both. If you're blocked by a bunch of the main posters in a cluster, you just won't see much that cluster's activity.
@Notladylike Probably by what kinds of posts you mostly see; maybe also by who is in your block list. We have no way of knowing for sure who all has blocked us, but the people who block you are another indicator.
It's been on that path a while as near as I can tell. Perhaps the reputation type stuff is condensing many, but there are more than a few announcing their departure (although such announcements are usually worth less than the photons they generate to display)
@Beetlejuice68 yeah, I suppose. I feel like I don't have the energy to wade into controversial things nor the desire to interact with the super banal, so I end up seeing almost nothing here. And any direction I try to lead is either pretty much unseen or no interaction, so I stop bothering with it
@stound I don’t get people who don’t tolerate small talk initially and expect expansive conversation from the get go as if you already know the person.
@Beetlejuice68 you can post most any thing,,if you have some one that flags you,,over and over ,,that member in in a violation for weeks,,,gets fed up quits
@JimboSaturn I understand people get busy and not everyone is in the Northern hemisphere, but it has seemed a lot quieter here for quite some time now. I wonder if the same would have eventually happened to the Experience Project as well, which people appear to have enjoyed more.