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.

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.

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.

buwho,

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.

Mangoguana,
@Mangoguana@lemmy.world avatar

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

hamsteronvase,

My adblockers work so well I haven’t seen a reddit ad in years.

I use block origin, noscript, plus my own pihole.

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.

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. :-)

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

awderon,

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.

Polydextrous,

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

CiderApplenTea,

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

Kyoyeou,
@Kyoyeou@lemmy.world avatar

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

awderon,

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.

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.

TheWeirdestCunt,

The only reason I use Lemmy less than I used reddit is the lack of content, I was following so many subreddits that every time I sorted by new I could scroll for hours before I hit the posts I’d seen last time I opened the app. Here there just aren’t as many communities and a lot of the ones I’m following are dead so my feed is just the same 20 posts every time I open it.

demesisx,

I probably had only around 70 subs in my list of Reddit. On lemmy, I have 274.

jeffw,

But if you add up the active users in your subs and communities, the subs would still outweigh the communities significantly

mannycalavera,
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk avatar

This a thousands percent.

smort,
@smort@lemmy.world avatar

And actual content or discussions I want to engage with. Plenty of memes here, but if I want to talk about any hobbies that aren’t Linux or video games, there just isn’t much here (yet).

So for better and worse, I also spend less time on lemmy than I did on reddit

catastrophicblues,

Also the constant outcries from vegans and environmentalists…like we get it, the world is on fire. You’re not the first to tell me that and there’s little I can do about it. It’s so exhausting.

bionicjoey,

Agreed, but it seems to be improving

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^^

guybrush,

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

anarchyrabbit,

Threepwood!

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.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • [email protected]
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • oklahoma
  • Socialism
  • KbinCafe
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • Ask_kbincafe
  • SuperSentai
  • feritale
  • KamenRider
  • All magazines
    •