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?

ImpossibilityBox,

The big difference for me it’s the overall lack of comment interaction on posts here. I was addicted to reddit not because of the content but because of the community interaction below the content.

Side note: Just now my phone keyboard did NOT autocorrect to reddit. It appears I have finally doesn’t enough fine away from their for my phone to recognize it.

Llewellyn,

Lemmy also has it.

KTVX94,

I felt the same and it’s good. I guess that’s the upside of no algorithm.

rab,

I either get downvoted hard or upvoted hard so it’s kind of addictive that way

ExLisper,

How do you downvote someone?

owiseedoubleyou,

Your instance seems to have downvotes disabled. If you don’t like that, well, just move to another instance.

ExLisper,

I didn’t know it’s instance dependent. Cool. I actually don’t mind that.

PopcornTin,

I took July off from any of this stuff. After Sync released (my preferred app before), I’ve come to lemmy to try to see how it’s going, but honestly, I’ve lost most of the desire to blindly browse random stuff like I did.

Fonchote,

I am in a similar spot. For the better!

butterflyattack,

Yeah, my journey was just the same as yours. I’m reading more books now, though, so that’s cool.

sixty,

I see no videos or gifs on here, which is a huge addiction factor

GenBlob,

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.

Blastasaurus,

Yeh I agree. But also, this is good, no?

thegreatgarbo,

Yes!

BlueDepth9279,

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.

CertifiedBlackGuy,

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?

deadboy,

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.

Vakbrain,
@Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

That’s legit! Glad to have witnessed your first comment!

Khrux,

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.

rigatti,
@rigatti@lemmy.world avatar

Takes a deadboy to know a deadplatform, I guess.

suenoromis,

16 billion years of evolution and still nobody asked if it’s your first comment on lemmy. Joking obviously, welcome to lemmy!

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime,

“kinda dead” is the last way I’d describe it. Dead like i95 compared to LA? I guess…

alex,

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.

Lemmylefty,
@Lemmylefty@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly. Places/communities like Lemmy can and should serve different functions for different people - newsfeed, forum, meme collection/dumping ground - but the fine line between value and addiction gets obliterated by moneyed interests.

Dee,
@Dee@lemmings.world avatar

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.

Poayjay,

I never realized all this but it’s so true. I browse and comment until I’m caught up, then log off.

Wow

wintermute_oregon,

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    Daft_ish,

    Fiscally right?? Does that mean you write a check to Jeff Bezos every month?

    wintermute_oregon,

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    Daft_ish, (edited )

    I just don’t get this “fiscally conservative” bullshit. You want to cut taxes on the rich as infrastructure continues to crumble? You want to hide your money in offshore bank accounts? You want to implement legislation that funnels unregulated money into corporate bank accounts then forgive all the debt? You want to use campaign finance to accept bribes then have the courts make it legal?

    Edit: Maybe it’s you want to raise the national debt to record numbers then years later pretend all the sudden to be “worried about the deficit” and refuse to raise the debt ceiling and threaten to shut down the government.

    Vulnicura,

    Honestly an optional recommendation feature would be cool.

    alex,

    Yeah, I’d like it too, but I suppose it’s a lot of work.

    SlopppyEngineer,

    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.

    dingus,
    @dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

    Basically, no dark patterns built to keep you scrolling.

    turtlepower,

    So then what are the up/down votes for?

    limerod,

    Individual post/comment votes. They would only get used for post/comment sorting at best. Nothing more.

    turtlepower,

    Cool, thanks!

    Morhamms357,

    The only person here answering the question lol

    EhList,
    @EhList@lemmy.world avatar

    It isn’t designed to be as engaging. It’s a service not a product for sale

    Kolanaki,
    @Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

    It feels the same to me, but with less jackasses. So it’s better.

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime,

    Yep exactly! Jackasses still around. But I’m not having to block someone daily

    Ultraviolet,

    Social media addiction comes from algorithms designed to psychologically manipulate you into scrolling endlessly to maximize ad impressions. It’s not a good thing.

    Duranie,

    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.

    Morhamms357,

    It’s not, but since Lemmy and Reddit seem the same on a surface level (and unlike what many people say, I sort by New and so never see old content), I can doomscroll and waste time on both platforms. However, with Lemmy, this bad habit of mine has been tempered severely, and I don’t exactly know why. It’s a good thing, but a good thing that just came out of nowhere.

    Some people here say because there’s no recommendations, which I feel is a good answer, but it feels just a little short. Is that really it?

    Anamnesis,

    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.

    Krompus,
    @Krompus@lemmy.world avatar

    Sort by top six hour.

    Also feel free to block any communities you don’t care to see.

    LeftRedditOnJul1,

    Not sure what you’re using to browse Lemmy, but I believe the Connect app offers this functionality

    HawlSera,

    Yes, but I consider that a good thing

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