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?
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.
16 billion years of evolution and still nobody asked if it’s your first comment on lemmy. Joking obviously, welcome to lemmy!
If not for the fact that the ttrpg community was so important to me on Reddit, I’d probably not have migrated over, as addicted as I was to the generic /all content on Reddit, I’m glad to be rid of it.
But lemmy is yet to be able to sustain the equivalent community, I want to have access to that infinite pool of topical conversation that I can’t find anywhere, I won’t go back to Reddit but it’s just getting smaller here on Lemmy.
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Takes a deadboy to know a deadplatform, I guess.
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!
Have a look at !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
Communities are growing
It’s a mix of not neverending content (yet) and it’s not designed to keep you in. I’m sure Reddit has had people who only work on increasing the doom scrolling.
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Change sorting to “Top 6hr”. I browse by Hot sometimes but that’s my primary sort atm
The biggest issue is Lemmy shows old posts for too long on the front page
There is an easy solution to that:
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
There will never be a poop knife, or chili soap, or any of that here
My brother in Christ, do you already forget about the no pooping meme?
it’s been at least 3 days since that happened. that’s AGES ago
What makes you say that there will never be “a poop knife”?
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
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)
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I thought that, then I put Sync on my phone, and now I can lost an hour or more unintentionally, just… scrolling…
But that’s the app. When I’m desktop or web app, I find it much easier to check out without getting totally sucked it.
Which reminds me. Should probably get back to work now.
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There is less content to scroll. That’s all.
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?
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?
I think it’s a combination of less presence/engagement in niche content, sorting methods not quite being there, and not enough discovery without going out of band to find things
One thing I really miss is the science groups, askscience always had great debate that I haven’t yet found here
That’s right, science topic is underrepresented on Lemmy.
Which is really strange to me, I mean we’ve got early adopters and lots of technical people. It seems like science should be big here
Yes and no, I feels like it absolutely could be as addictive as Reddit but there just isn’t enough content being generated for me to powerscroll for hours only to do the same thing the next day
Yeah, check it in the morning. Check again at night and it’s the same content. Bed by 8pm instead of 11.
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.
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.
Lemmynsfw.com and pornlemmy.com are slowly rising.
They’ll get there
