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?

EhList,
@EhList@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

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

MrFunnyMoustache,

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

s20,

Reddit uses algorithms to drive engagement. I mean, not old.reddit, but regular reddit. Lemmy doesn’t.

Basically, modern Reddit, like other big name social media, is specifically designed to be addictive because it’s evil. Lemmy isn’t.

GiddyGap,

Less niche communities. Don’t worry. Doom scrolling is ready to pounce.

stillitcomes, (edited )

For me a big thing is that because Lemmy is so small, it’s not diverse. It’s mostly liberal-to-leftist nerds from America and Western Europe. I roll my eyes and scroll past whenever there’s a post about any Asian country because you know it’s just gonna be a bunch of foreigners (whose exposure to the country is limited to news headlines) pretending they know anything. And unlike Reddit there are seldom any locals available to set people straight.

Morhamms357,

You’ll never believe where I’m from…

NuPNuA,

We seem to have a lot of Eastern Europeans and Latin Americans too.

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

There is monyet.cc and !philippines but I get what you mean.

Also some content might be in the local languages so if you haven’t them selected in your settings they might be invisible to you

iByteABit,

It definitely would be to me if there was more diverse content, I usually stop scrolling after seeing the same news articles reposted over and over again, posts that have been in my feed since yesterday, and one too many posts about Linux/FOSS or whatever.

I still love it for what it is, but it can’t keep me interested for as long as Reddit did yet.

Polar,

Too many nerds here with a hard on for FOSS. Really makes the front page extremely biased.

iByteABit,

Maybe I gave the wrong impression, I love FOSS and Linux, I’m also a huge nerd.

I just wish there were more people with different interests here, it gets tiring to interact solely with other tech nerds.

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I know, I feel the same.

Feel free to have a look at !casualconversation !personalfinance !moviesandtv

Also !trendingcommunities and !newcommunities

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Block them, gives space for the rest of the content

const_void,

It literally says right in the side bar:

A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

iByteABit,

I’m talking about the entirety of Lemmy, not just your instance

I also love the privacy/FOSS content, it’s just that Reddit left a huge hole for me with normal people content that I hope to see more of here in the future

Rottcodd,
@Rottcodd@kbin.social avatar

Actually, I've found just the opposite - I've been more likely to spend more time on lemmy/kbin over the last couple of months than I spent on Reddit in years.

It got to the point that I'd just pop onto Reddit, look around, see the same basic variety of botspam, astroturfing and concern trolling, and go do something else. It wasn't even worth posting anything, since any response I got was almost certainly going to be from a bot or a human-who-might-as-well-be-a-bot, and it was going to be the same thing either way - just some shallow bit of stock rhetoric that at best might be sort of tangentially related to what I actually said.

But then I came here and rediscovered the pleasure of reading posts written by actual people who actually think about what they're saying, who will actually read and think about what I actually say in response, then write a response that they've actually thought about.

And that was it - I was hooked in a way I hadn't been for years on Reddit.

That said, it's nowhere near as good now as it was a few months ago, and I have been less active recently. The last big migration in particular, after the API changes went into place, led to both more bots and more humans-who-might-as-well-be-bots, and the quality here went sharply downhill.

It's still better than Reddit though. And it's been improving again of late.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

I find it just addictive enough. There are definitely lulls in activity, but they're short-lived and I have things I should be doing besides shitposting so it's actually helped me.

The quality, however, is much higher. This can be very subjective, but I do have some real world evidence. The number of times I'd show someone a meme and have them say "Please send that to me" has definitely gone up since I switched to the fediverse.

radix,
@radix@lemm.ee avatar

That’s really sweet.

theodewere,
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

awww, you're sweet

radix,
@radix@lemm.ee avatar

:O

KTVX94,

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

SharkEatingBreakfast,
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works avatar

Endless content can definitely lead to a more addictive platform. Because it’s trying to encourage more users to generate their own content, there’s certainly less of it, bit definitely less garbage to wade through.

That said, I feel that I’m learning more, sharing more, and interacting with others more.

It’s also much nicer than R×ddit, because I’ve seen so much less: ragebait, fake stories, sensationalism, intentional factual inaccuracies/disinformation, shilling, shitty bots, etc.

flossdaily,

It’s just a lack of posts and comments. It’s not busy enough here to allow for endless scrolling.

JustNeedAUserAccount,

Having the same post appear several times in your feed also doesn’t help and the general lack of engagement often makes lemmy feel like a ghost town.

flossdaily,

Yuuup.

scorpious,

And that’s a good thing.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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

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