Anyone else feel that Lemmy just *isn't* addictive?

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?

ininewcrow,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

Reddit is crack … because it took years of cocaine use before users converted it into crack

Lemmy right now is just cocaine … just keep using it for a few years and you’ll eventually start turning the cocaine into crack … it’s still an addiction but right now we believe that we can manage the addiction and use it and not use it at will … give it time and we will eventually get to the point of doom scrolling endless content like a helpless crack addict. Enjoy Lemmy while you can, we are building a tolerance and we will eventually want to ramp up our usage in a few years and whore ourselves out for the next hit.

scorpious,

And that’s a good thing.

RampageDon,

Doom scrolling wasn’t there in the early days of reddit. Lemmy is still new. I think people just had high hopes and expectations that lemmy would be a 1 to 1 replacement for reddit, but that was never going to happen. Reddit has had years to grow and optimize while lemmy is just a fledgling with a niche user base.

Also I think lemmy is missing that hook or gimmick to get, for lack of better words, the attention seekers here that will make posts and content just for upvotes or to show up on everyone’s front page. Not saying lemmy needs to be reddit, but I do think it needs a little extra something than just being a decentralized reddit alternative.

MrFunnyMoustache,

There is less content to scroll. That’s all.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Eeeh, nope. It’s 6:25AM and I already spent 2 hours on Lemmy.

FoxAndKitten,

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

Anon819450514,

That’s right, science topic is underrepresented on Lemmy.

FoxAndKitten,

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

rambob,

I think for me is the lack of integrated video content in the lemmy apps (on ios anyway). On reddit, the videos are mostly hosted on v.reddit.com directly and they are automatically loaded and displayed in the apps. In lemmy, it’s often handled as external links that we have to open in a browser. It’s less integrated, less « alive ». I don’t use the web UIs so I don’t know if it’s the same there.

s1ndr0m3,

I am currently trying several lemmy apps on android and most videos play in the apps. Some of them even autoplay as you scroll past.

rambob,

That’s good to hear. It means that the same behaviour should make it’s way to most ios apps soon too.

What didn’t help too, is that we had almost perfect mature apps before for reddit (e.g.: Apollo), and now we have to start over from scratch with new apps. Dev teams are doing a phenomenal job, but the transition can be bumpy sometimes.

Strayce,

Lemmy has pretty much replaced my other social media scrolling. I probably spend about the same amount of time here as I used to spend flicking between fb and reddit, but I spend more time reading and interacting here.

Weird that I’m actually more engaged with a platform that doesn’t really have an aggressive engagement algorithm.

kornucopeya,

it hasn’t attracted grifters who could “addictify” content to post yet perhaps?

Like you know it’s like health food, before people add extra sugar and salt and whatever to have people eat too much

chgh,

tbh I don’t fall into rabbitholes here the way one may on Reddit, but I feel like the time I spend here is more worthwhile; So the analogy of Lemmy being healthy food, and Reddit being junk food makes sense to me.

STUPIDVIPGUY,

I have a habit of scrolling during downtime during the day but I don’t have an attachment to lemmy specifically. One thing I like about this app is how mundane a lot of the posts seem, it’s not overly exciting and doesn’t cause tiktok-style dopamine addiction.

All forms of social media could be argued as being addictive to some degree but lemmy IMO is relatively harmless. Though there is something to be said about rage farming, many of the posts seem to be negative or anger-inducing in some way, but it’s not bad compared to many other platforms. And of course there is the ability to filter your feed by blocking certain communities but the personalization in that regard isn’t as good as reddit was.

Jimmycakes,

That’s because there’s no drama here. On reddit there’s non stop controversy and sub drama and that kind of shit is addicting whether you realize it or not.

CobblerScholar,

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

SubNoize,

Yeah, check it in the morning. Check again at night and it’s the same content. Bed by 8pm instead of 11.

WtfEvenIsExistence,

Guess you need to sort by Hot

Aelorius,

I don’t know why but personally lemmy is much more addictive than reddit. The content makes me discover more relevant things and with reddit I felt like been in a loop with always the same content or not relevant content maybe the threads I subscribed to were not the bests.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I get addicted by farming downvotes now. Because imaginary internet points are so useless. Why get karma when you can get negative karma?

Psst. You see that ⬇️ arrow? Give it a press, please.

WtfEvenIsExistence,

I would, but my instance disabled downvotes, and I’m too lazy to move to another instance.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t know instances can do that.

jivandabeast,

Less content, and the sorting seems to favor posts that are getting comments rather than new and rising posts. So you frequently have posts over a day old that stay at the top slots of your feed

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