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?
It’s not supposed to be. It doesn’t jam endless recommendations in your feed once you’ve gotten at the end of the new, fresh content. I feel like it’s a feature, not a bug, to have platforms that don’t optimise for time spent on them, because they don’t need our attention to show us ads.
I’m so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We’re not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn’t try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.
I never realized all this but it’s so true. I browse and comment until I’m caught up, then log off.
Wow
There is no karma system so no people shitposting and reposting as much to pump up their score. Without this kind of gamification there is less noise.
Basically, no dark patterns built to keep you scrolling.
So then what are the up/down votes for?
Individual post/comment votes. They would only get used for post/comment sorting at best. Nothing more.
Cool, thanks!
Exactly. It shouldn’t be addictive. It should fill a purpose.
Reddit did not fill a purpose. It was mainly skreee all day.
While I’ve some Reddit behavior here for the most part it’s been discussions.
I lean right. I’m not far right. I’m socially more left but fiscally I’m more right.
Reddit was just skreee to me.
Honestly an optional recommendation feature would be cool.
Yeah, I’d like it too, but I suppose it’s a lot of work.
The only person here answering the question lol
Agree’d, people aren’t contributing enough so it seems dead after a 30min check per day (might not be a bad thing).
If lemmy is to thrive and survive, post, comment and start discussions. That’s what is addictive and provides value.
Thunder’s latest update added a dismiss read posts feature, it lets you remove read posts on demand as you scroll, “refreshing” the feed with content you haven’t seen, but without actually refreshing the page.
Lets you scroll a lot deeper into the feed without it feeling “dead” or “stale”.
Good to know!
post, comment and start discussions. That’s what is addictive and provides value.
Just want to +1 this. You’d be surprised how “addictive” it can be to get active. And probably more valuable to you too.
Massively. If you can contribute, ask and learn on a discussion then you get WAY more out of it.
Lemmy is perfect for that atm, reddit you’d get immediately drowned out or some dickhead just dismissing your point and that’s it, done.
Despite being a smaller community, I find I’ve been getting significantly more replies on Lemmy. Maybe it’s easier to get noticed.
No, I will not discuss this with you, nor will I write a comment.
Reddit’s continuous contributions were more shitposts and inside jokes though, so the little I do read here feels a lot more personal and more in depth. It’s pretty nice.
I needed excuses to get the hell off my phone more anyway.
I browse about 5 hours a day according to my phone lol
We just need to get those mods from ask historians here and the millions will come I’m sure
Not sure. Sort by “All” and “New” and there’s a lot.
Not sure how this statement will age, but I feel Lemmy is here to stay. At least for now. Means it will likely grow over time.
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It’s like listening to the best band in your town and then comparing it to the music at the top of the global charts. The pure scale means you’re gonna get better bands if you include “everyone”. But I totally also hope Lemmy gets bigger. As a platform it isn’t inferior in terms of UX. We just need everyone to switch.
Tbh, I find most of the music on top of the global charts to be obnoxious bullshit.
That’s fair. Let’s rather go with a music platform. That has everything.
I find it’s better when I sort by top 6h
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:
That doesn’t have to be a bad thing. I commented on posts that were weeks old or a month old. Reddit had this bad habit that everything older than 30 minutes was irrelevant already.
Sure, seeing old posts doesn’t help to create an image of activity. But don’t think that something old is irrelevant, unless it’s a news post.
Social media addiction comes from algorithms designed to psychologically manipulate you into scrolling endlessly to maximize ad impressions. It’s not a good thing.
I truly appreciate the fact that I can browse Lemmy for my entertainment, and easily walk away when I need to be an adult and don’t auto smash the button when I open my phone.
To me this is a very, very good thing.
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.
That’s legit! Glad to have witnessed your first comment!
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.
“kinda dead” is the last way I’d describe it. Dead like i95 compared to LA? I guess…
Only because I can read the whole thing significantly faster than Reddit.
I see no videos or gifs on here, which is a huge addiction factor
On Reddit when i browse r/all I I keep getting surprised on the different communities that exists. On lemmy so far I mostly see tech related stuff. I’ve ended up browsing both reddit and lemmy.
Tech related stuff and old memes*
I check lemmy and it has the same stuff day in and day out or three posts about the same exact thing on the front page for three days. Just not enough content for proper doom scrolling.
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.
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You can use lewy.world to make an NSFW account.
Porn
Cats
Memes
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
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 have actually been using Lemmy a lot more the past few days. I haven’t had discussions this good on the internet in years. There’s no karma so people don’t spam the same jokes over and over again, It’s actually really good, well constructed discussion most of the time.
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.
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
I check it 2-3 times a day, feel happy. I don’t feel the need to check it 30 times a day. I’m happy.
This is the way.
