I caught myself loads of times scrolling on Reddit while not even paying attention, or while scrolling on Reddit to then close it immediately opening Reddit again to continue scrolling.
It felt just like any other social media app, scrolling mindlessly, for at least a few hours a day. I noticed this has changed since I’ve been using Lemmy, where I might spend 30 minutes a day on. I’m curious if other experience this too! It feels nice to be freed from Reddit.
Yeah my browsing time has gone down compared to Reddit. But Lemmy has far less mindless content, if I’m on here I’m more engaged and actively read articles linked or write comments.
Yes, definitely! I wonder what that is. Because I definitely engage way more with the actual content, reading full articles, actually opening articles…on Reddit, I was so angry with myself because I wouldn’t actually read the shit. Which was very unlike me. Very odd
I suppose part of it is that a lot of Reddit content was repetitive, and also, because Lemmy is still much smaller, there are less mindless posts and comments, which make me take contributions more serious and cause me to be less frustrated about scrolling over comments which are only empty noise
For me I’m on the website, and I need to click on “Next Page” which takes a bit of time to load, as well as Basically making everything before disepear and it can be hard to find it again
On Reddit it felt useless to comment, when I found an interesting topic the discussion was already drowning with one word comments and other useless stuff. Here on Lemmy the discussions feel more genuine. Probably it’s because the userbase is more mature, or the nature of Lemmy is not to generate money.
Im beginning to use lemmy more and more and preferring it over reddit. Its much better, conversationally and without the suggested Jesus and Army and Navy ads etc. However my usage is still similar to reddit, ie scrolling and reading alot of things and memes etc. But the conversational interactions seem alot more productive, i like that.
The amount of time wasted on our attention spans because of ads… Sometimes I feel suffocated, it feels like an intruder trying to crack open my skull through repetition. It’s so nice to be able to go on a website with no ads like lemmy! MY ADBLOCKER DOES NOTHING IT HAS NOT HAPPENED IN THE PAST 10 YEARS
Yes. Like others have said, the content hasn’t quite caught up in volume or diversity.
But I think another factor is that when I fire up Lemmy, it feels like r/all in that I’m getting everything. There seem to be quite a number of meme-themed
subredditscommunities that dominate my All feed. Now that I think about it, I should probably make the effort to block those; I’ve made that effort on kbin.In a way, I think it might be nice to have something equivalent to r/popular, fwiw.
Minor nit: “community” (“magazine” on kbin) doesn’t have the same ‘zing’ as “subreddit”. We need something like “sublemmy” or “sublem”.
I’ve doom scrolled on here a few times, but it’s not nearly as bad as I was with reddit.
That said, it’s partially due to less content, and I’ve also made myself pick up a book for the first time in ages after leaving reddit.
I spend more time on Lemmy, but that’s mostly because I admin an instance.
We appreciate you admins and mods!
Same. But even before that I was spending a ton of time as a regular user trying to generate activity. I think I’m finally starting to relax a little bit because Lemmy seems to be stabilizing. Growth has slowed but the core users are more active than ever, and people are starting to form sustainable communities. It feels so right to be a part of this.
Yes, but only because the communities I used to be part of on reddit just aren’t the same here, in number of users or content. Maybe that will change, and I hope it does, but I keep seeing people being put off as Lemmy has been down so much or people have trouble creating an account and give up. I don’t dislike that Lemmy is smaller, it’s nice to have more real conversations with people, but the subreddit I used the most was my local city’s, and there just isn’t another space like that online. I miss it.
I used Reddit for mindless nonsense but mostly for finding answers in niche topics. As good as Lemmy seems so far it will take a long time for the user count to be suffient enough to fill the information void. I’ll bet our time spent here will increase as user volumes increase
I’ve noticed this too. Most of the stuff on Reddit’s frontpage has an angry undertone. Anger = Engagement.
I’d say less time, probably b/c Lemmy doesn’t have a predatory algorithm to keep me on it for hours on end.
I actually am spending about the same amount of time on Lemmy as I used to on reddit, modulo interesting posts for me to interact with.
i would scroll a lot longer on lemmy if there would be more content and my app Liftoff wouldn’t completely reset where i left off when i click a link or leave the app for a second. each time i have to search again where i was etc… sucks after 2 time too much to try again. also the sorting in the app don’t rly works… i click sort by new in my profile and it does nothing.
I spend a lot more time in Lemmy. The conversations here are engaging and intelligent and I actually learn something. Reddit on the other hand was overwhelming as your comment can easily be drowned out by thousands of comments and shit comments.
I enjoy my time here. And Reddit? What is a Reddit? Never heard of it…
I’m actually spending more time. :-)
Yes. Lemmy goes down too, forcing me to step away from it.
I think a big portion of it is the quality of the content and comments. Just not as much on there, and not as many of the small communities I would check.
