Back in 2020, there was a massive explosion of users not only in places like this, but in all sorts of smaller niche spaces across the internet. There was suddenly a huge interest in Matrix, the Fediverse, Gemini, projects like Spacehey, Pixelfed, Lemmy, etc. It was nice.
However, in the subsequent years (has it been almost 7 years already? How?) it seems much of this attention has redirected elsewhere and these places have been left very underpopulated. The Fediverse Matrix room used to be very active, now there are perhaps two or three messages there a week.
At the time, it seemed 2020 would be something of an Eternal September for these places. Apparently I was incorrect.
Either way, go update your gemini capsule. Make a post here, or on Station, or wherever. Reactivate your fedi.
Don't let these places die.