I believe there are fewer people nowadays, but Similar Worlds was always a small tightknit community. I don't believe it's become smaller due to AI, it's been more like a steady decline over many years, long before AI became anything like what it is today. This is gonna sound terrible, but the "quality of people" is what has declined the most. This was originally a "refugee camp" for people who used to use another social network called Experience Project, however Similar Worlds got a lot of things wrong about what made Experience Project good, so few people from those times hung around for very long. I honestly only know a handful of people here now who are even capable of spelling their own name, let alone have anything remotely interesting to say. I don't even try to post anything interesting myself anymore, because this website, and the large majority of its community, just isn't worth it. Just little things like showing ads in the middle of our profiles (between collections and posts) makes it feel incredibly cheap. Everyone here know each other, and if they don't know you, they'll accuse you of being someone else's alt-account. 😅