do you also spend a lot less time on Lemmy compared to Reddit?

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.

lyptt,

I quit Reddit a while back so it’s nice being on a similar place again. I scroll through federated posts mostly, since that matches scrolling through r/all.

hamsteronvase,

What pissed me off about reddit is how it fingerprinted your machine.

If you don’t know what that is, be scared. Be very scared.

That meant if some power-mad admin lording it over some subreddit blocked me for petty reasons, it would be easy to get all my other 6 alt accounts permanently banned.

F YOU for that, reddit.

Found some anti-fingerprinting defenses, which protect me at other sites, is the only silver lining.

condenser,

I used to browse reddit through alternate frontends on desktop and 3rd party apps on mobile precisely because of that. I never liked the new flashy design.

Shotgun_Alice,

I’d say less time, probably b/c Lemmy doesn’t have a predatory algorithm to keep me on it for hours on end.

GoinEasy9,

I’m actually spending more time. :-)

quaddo,

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 subreddits communities 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”.

hamsteronvase,

Root problem Is the name ‘Lemmy’, which is kinda lame-y.

Also bad is that we’re not called Redditors but … lemmings? Lemurs?

Almost worth changing the name.

Lazylazycat,

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.

ezmack,

Yeah it’s slower with less people. Reddit I scrolled to find stuff, where as I use lemmy to post things i find

HowlsSophie,

Yes. There’s less content to scroll through here (not a bad thing) so ensures scrolling isn’t a thing anymore. I’ll still visit a certain Reddit sub from time to time but at some point I’ll probably let that go too.

Elcapitan786,

I am starting to. Still browse Reddit occasionally for the communities that are not in here yet.

Reddit as a whole seems a lot less populated. Example, the r/android sub is nowhere near as active as it used to be.

ChrissieWF,

No, since I can’t sensibly use Reddit on my phone.
I misread - yes, I use Lemmy somewhat less now than I used to use Reddit. Which is probably a good thing^^

anarchyrabbit,

I think I’m still getting used to lemmy and navigating around I think subconsciously I am put off by this… Once I get the hang of it I am sure my habits will go back.

guybrush,

Yeah, and it’s a good thing… also, I comment now which I didnt really bother to do on reddit.

anarchyrabbit,

Threepwood!

redballooon,

I’d like to to spend the same time on Lemmy, but then I just see the same posts all over again.

Im28xwa,

Nope, the same amount of time

Saltarello,

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

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