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

WolfyGamer29, 10 months ago

I got stuck in a scroll-loop while trying to go to bed last night… granted, I broke out of it faster than I usually would on Reddit.

YoBuckStopsHere, 10 months ago

Lemmy isn’t giving you that dopamine hit you want? That’s likely due to the smaller nature of the Fediverse. Enjoyable content without the feeling your missing something.

OsrsNeedsF2P, 10 months ago

Nah mate I’m refreshing the Top Hour sort every 30 minutes

schwim, 10 months ago

Perhaps you require more ragebait?

If so, you’re stupid, your thought is stupid and your choice in underwear is stupid.

WookieMunster, 10 months ago

What a sad little man

hydro033, 10 months ago

whoosh

fred-kowalski, 10 months ago

Even when someone is really raging in comments, I purposely frame it as sarcasm so I don’t engage. But here I am, engaging. Yep, just like Reddit for me.

To serve the thread topic, I have about an hour a day free for some social media, regardless of the platform mix. Gave up Reddit as it got bumped.

schwim, 10 months ago

I’m enraged.

ryan, 10 months ago

Excuse you. I may be stupid, but my underwear is soft and comfortable.

TheButtonJustSpins, 10 months ago

Do any apps provide native notifications yet? I’d love to get alerts in my notifications bar rather than having to open the app and go through each account.

const_void, 10 months ago

Yes, Infinity does.

rambob, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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.

OldWoodFrame, 10 months ago

I think it’s just less well curated content due to fewer users because after some amount of time you get to the posts with a low number of upvotes. Just a scale thing.

That said I kinda prefer it.

TimeMuncher2, 10 months ago

No bots or people posting the same videos/posts that get 1k+ karma trying to make money by selling accounts.

rm_dash_r_star, 10 months ago

I never thought Reddit was addictive. I actually spend more time on Lemmy in a day than I did on Reddit. My browsing habits changed though. Reddit is so big I only looked at a few niche subreddits. Lemmy being much smaller I view a much wider range of topics. It’s a different and better experience for me.

clobubba, 10 months ago

I'm having a similar experience on kbin. I'm seeing and sometimes participating in threads I'd never have seen on Reddit.

drailin, 10 months ago

No. https://tenor.com/view/its-me-im-the-problem-taylor-swift-problem-taylor-im-the-problem-gif-26994473

MedicPigBabySaver, 10 months ago

Just wait. I’ll check with you and find out if you’re still “sober” in '25

!Remindme 2 years… (I think they have something like that. Can’t remember the exact tag).

can, 10 months ago

@remindme 2 years

MedicPigBabySaver, 10 months ago

Ty

theodewere, 10 months ago

this is some really good awareness, i think.. and that other thing is getting worser and worser for some reason..