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?

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

ganksy,
@ganksy@lemmy.world avatar

I feel like it’s visiting a friendly village I love rather than getting lost in a city that’s interesting because it’s awful. Honestly, I come here as much as I did reddit at this point. Less flashy. More endearing.

scottywh,

There’s good.things and bad things about it…

Personally, I’d begun to feel shackled by Reddit having gotten so overly moderated in recent years.

When someone is a fucking idiot and says idiot things I should be allowed to tell them they’re a fuckin idiot.

Reddit started protecting the idiots’ feelings over protecting people’s right to tell them they’re fucking idiots and maybe that’s how the fediverse will become too since people have become so accustomed to it but I like being able to call out the stupidity as much as I like genuine engagement and informative content.

I hate a lot of the low effort I’m a comedian bullshit that reddit allowed to run rampant in the last few years because no one was allowed to tell them they’re stupid.

scottywh,

For example… Lots of people think I’m the fuckin idiot…let them talk is still my point.

InvaderDJ,

For me at least, there’s just not enough content. Not enough communities, with not enough posts with not enough comments. Lemmy still hasn’t reached that tipping point where it can replace sites like Reddit. It fluctuates, but I think it is on the way.

rony4102,

But I am shocked to see the pace it’s growing with,and content quality is just(chef kiss)

Klear,

Beans.

victron,
@victron@programming.dev avatar

Yep, it doesn’t take long until you start seeing posts that you’ve seen already.

SeatBeeSate,

Minecraft communities seem to get a post a week at this point. Wish there was more interaction across the board.

AfricanExpansionist,

It’s very similar to old Reddit

Reddit eventually got super-specific subs because so many people showed up and made more and more niche content that suited the needs of subgroups in communities. For example, lots of big subreddits banned memes, prompting the rise of specific shitposting groups

cyberpunk007,

We came there, from the digg exodus. Now we’re here, from the Reddit exodus.

AfricanExpansionist,

I came to Reddit from Slashdot, like, a couple of months before the Digg exodus. It was cool to see it grow so quickly and become the hot new thing, but a lot of the more established users were quick to note the changes in culture. It probably took me those few months just to figure out how the UI worked. It was and is a website of mediocre design.

I always preferred Slashdot and its moderation system, but I’m far too much of a dilettante for its narrow range of conversation topics. I never cared for Digg. It felt too safe.

I know Eternal September brings problems but the large user base at Reddit made sure there was always fresh content and all kinds of weird subreddits. Too bad they went corporate.

Theharpyeagle,

Honestly I feel like we’ve all known reddit would go down like digg one day.

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.

HawlSera,

Yes, but I consider that a good thing

ristoril_zip,

Are you interpreting that as bad or good? It was clear there was some fuckery going on at reddit for the past many years, increasing rage/anger, bots everywhere, engagement focused bullshit.

Is “doom scrolling” a thing you want to be doing? I’m not implying “you could be doing something better with your time” because it’s your time to spend. But at the same time, change is good, right? Maybe instead of having one active platform, mix lemmy up with mastodon? Or start watching every Crash Course and Sci Show video that exists. Look up ZeFrank and dash down that rabbit hole for a couple years.

Daft_ish,

Browsing Lemmy is like traveling in a time machine. It’s like the internet from 2012 to now didn’t happen and people are worried about the Mayan calender ending.

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

Neve8028,

There are so many automated bots posting links every couple of minutes. I feel like I sometimes have to wade through tons of garbage to get to interesting posts. I’ve been blocking tons of bots and communities but it still feels like it takes effort to find content which isn’t what I want. I want somewhere that I can find interesting content when I’m taking a shit. Lemmy isn’t quite there yet.

PuppyOSAndCoffee,
@PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml avatar

Nah, Lemmy is just a tighter experience.

chicken,

For me it’s a little bit more addictive than Reddit since I get more comment replies. This is probably just because I stay away from any big subs on Reddit though.

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

Firemyth,

For me it’s the ridiculous amount of alt left/communist comments in EVERY thread. Even blocking the worst offending instances I still get a frankly insane amount of comments from delusional people thinking we should all give up our personal possessions and everyone just magically have access to everything at no cost to anyone.

rez_doggie,

Is someone missing the taste of boot?

Firemyth,

Is someone missing the taste of laziness? This is exactly what I’m talking about. You retards can’t help but comment. You have no plan. You deny reality. You just want but don’t want to put in the work to actually do anything. Someone told you something about Marx and because you lack the ability to do any actual research you just clump together and scream on here.

rez_doggie,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c67a9732-926a-498d-b423-2ab7ca5ff38d.jpeg

Firemyth,

Lol yes of course. You’re right everything that I’ve owned and worked for is yours. And your asshole is mine. Communism for all right comrade?

rez_doggie,

Sure now give me all your shit. ;)

davi,

the fediverse definitely is not as addicting as reddit and i stopped doing reddit so now it feels like my mental state is improving because of it.

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