Or at least less so than Reddit. It’s good, but, I can’t put my finger on it. Even when the content is good, the servers are up, and I’m getting notifications responding to comments, it’s never come to me doomscrolling for hours.
Edit: Guys, guys, I’m not trying to say Lemmy should be addictive or Reddit is better because it is. The opposite. I thought being addicted to something was always a bad thing? I was just curious as that I rarely ever see the content droughts people talk about, so I can scroll for as long as I want to with no interruptions, but unlike with Reddit, I don’t, and I would want to know a reason why. Is it psychological? Something behind the scenes? The type of people here?
For me at least, there’s just not enough content. Not enough communities, with not enough posts with not enough comments. Lemmy still hasn’t reached that tipping point where it can replace sites like Reddit. It fluctuates, but I think it is on the way.
It’s very similar to old Reddit
Reddit eventually got super-specific subs because so many people showed up and made more and more niche content that suited the needs of subgroups in communities. For example, lots of big subreddits banned memes, prompting the rise of specific shitposting groups
We came there, from the digg exodus. Now we’re here, from the Reddit exodus.
Honestly I feel like we’ve all known reddit would go down like digg one day.
I came to Reddit from Slashdot, like, a couple of months before the Digg exodus. It was cool to see it grow so quickly and become the hot new thing, but a lot of the more established users were quick to note the changes in culture. It probably took me those few months just to figure out how the UI worked. It was and is a website of mediocre design.
I always preferred Slashdot and its moderation system, but I’m far too much of a dilettante for its narrow range of conversation topics. I never cared for Digg. It felt too safe.
I know Eternal September brings problems but the large user base at Reddit made sure there was always fresh content and all kinds of weird subreddits. Too bad they went corporate.
Social media addiction comes from algorithms designed to psychologically manipulate you into scrolling endlessly to maximize ad impressions. It’s not a good thing.
It’s not, but since Lemmy and Reddit seem the same on a surface level (and unlike what many people say, I sort by New and so never see old content), I can doomscroll and waste time on both platforms. However, with Lemmy, this bad habit of mine has been tempered severely, and I don’t exactly know why. It’s a good thing, but a good thing that just came out of nowhere.
Some people here say because there’s no recommendations, which I feel is a good answer, but it feels just a little short. Is that really it?
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For me I think it’s the niche communities aren’t built up yet. If I’m looking for a conversation about a specific football team or game, etc there isn’t as much content here that I can find on Reddit.
Same.
Though, honestly though I’m not even sure what I’m interested in at this point.
I mostly just shitposted in r/politics and occasionally handed out advice in r/writing.
Kinda feels stuck in a rut, you know?
Because it’s kinda dead… I won’t go back to Reddit but Lemmy doesn’t scratch the same itch Reddit did. This is my first comment on Lemmy by the way.
Takes a deadboy to know a deadplatform, I guess.
16 billion years of evolution and still nobody asked if it’s your first comment on lemmy. Joking obviously, welcome to lemmy!
I feel that I am wasting more time on Lemmy than on Reddit because here the community is more to my liking (foss and linux)
I feel like it’s visiting a friendly village I love rather than getting lost in a city that’s interesting because it’s awful. Honestly, I come here as much as I did reddit at this point. Less flashy. More endearing.
Yes exactly, thats what I want from my Lemmy experience. I dont want it to be addictive. The way it is now is honestly so refreshing. I find I am checking my RSS feeds for news and stuff now. I only go on Lemmy to see stuff I want to see. Not stuff that worsens my mood.
Too much repeated content on my feed. I like it, but I need to be able to auto hide previously viewed posts for this platform to be the kind of doomscroller reddit was.
Sort by top six hour.
Also feel free to block any communities you don’t care to see.
Not sure what you’re using to browse Lemmy, but I believe the Connect app offers this functionality
also voyager and eternity have this feature afaik
Lemmy has zero monetary gain from you being addicted to the platform unlike Reddit.
Lemmy’s smaller community means that there’s not an endless stream of content to keep you hooked.
Even with millions of active users though I don’t see Lemmy being nowhere near as addicive as Reddit
We need to up the porn a little to beat reddit. Let’s be honest, porn is what wins technology battles. Plus using the reddit app to look at stuff is just fucking miserable. I don’t even look at that much but being single currently, it’s what I got.
Yep, not to mention it’s hard to find here. Even if I put on all, I can’t find any. Plus there aren’t that many people posting any even on those instances specifically for it.
I feel like that’s the point? Lemmy doesn’t profit from wasting our time, so it has no interest doing so. This means more time for me to do productive things.
Be patient.
Lemmy is still establishing itself as the goto replacement for Reddit. New communities are popping up all the time and more users will come.
I’m excited for it! I’m personally trying to build some of the really niche communities that were big before, like the tiny EarthBound one.
Thing is, though, is the site really growing? After most have just put up with Reddit’s bullshit, I can’t really find recent statistics of Lemmy’s active user base. And the few results I could find just show it’s being stagnant, or even shrinking. I could be wrong, though, if it is growing, even better!
Browsing Lemmy is like traveling in a time machine. It’s like the internet from 2012 to now didn’t happen and people are worried about the Mayan calender ending.
I took July off from any of this stuff. After Sync released (my preferred app before), I’ve come to lemmy to try to see how it’s going, but honestly, I’ve lost most of the desire to blindly browse random stuff like I did.
I am in a similar spot. For the better!
Yeah, my journey was just the same as yours. I’m reading more books now, though, so that’s cool.
There’s way less content, and most of it is pretty nerdy due to the userbase.
There will never be a poop knife, or chili soap, or any of that here
What makes you say that there will never be “a poop knife”?
Also no cumbox?
There will never be a poop knife, or chili soap, or any of that here
Only if people whine without making such content, then there never will be
