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?

sarcasticsunrise,

I can’t meet ya on that brother, I don’t comment very often, but I feel like I’m terminally on here. I do wish more non-tech related stuff popped up in my feed, but that’s the flavor of Lemmy for now I guess. All in all, I like it here

Evil_Shrubbery,

I find it very addictive actually, at least the endless scrolling lasts a bit longer than in Reddit, tho there is still more top stuff on Reddit (bcs there is more content that gets distilled into good content, whereas I feel like on average I see better content on Lemmy).

Tho if I need some technical review of some obscure product, Reddit is still where I look it up.

tinho,

I feel that I am wasting more time on Lemmy than on Reddit because here the community is more to my liking (foss and linux)

DavyJones,
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Don’t even get me started on 🏴‍☠️

chalupapocalypse,

There’s way less content, and most of it is pretty nerdy due to the userbase.

There will never be a poop knife, or chili soap, or any of that here

phexinator,

Have faith! We’ll have our own cum poop soap box soon!

Isoprenoid,

There will never be a poop knife, or chili soap, or any of that here

My brother in Christ, do you already forget about the no pooping meme?

dom,

it’s been at least 3 days since that happened. that’s AGES ago

dan,
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the WHAT?

Fissionami,
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There will never be a poop knife, or chili soap, or any of that here

Only if people whine without making such content, then there never will be

Karmmah,
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What makes you say that there will never be “a poop knife”?

bstix,

You need to subscribe to more communities. There’s plenty of content here to keep me entertained for the day.

kthxbye_reddit,
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Also no cumbox?

DM_Gold,
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Y’all need to start sorting by top posts the past 6 hours. Changed Lemmy for me. Right now the algorithm for hot and active is too stale.

jecxjo,
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There are a lot of channels that are missing from what i did back in Reddit. Many i have no interest in modding so they most likely wont show up for a long time.

pomodoro_longbreak,
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I thought that, then I put Sync on my phone, and now I can lost an hour or more unintentionally, just… scrolling…

But that’s the app. When I’m desktop or web app, I find it much easier to check out without getting totally sucked it.

Which reminds me. Should probably get back to work now.

ljdawson,
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

NathanielThomas,

It doesn’t have the user base of Reddit so it doesn’t feel as addictive but I think with time it could get on par with Reddit.

The biggest issue is Lemmy shows old posts for too long on the front page

Rusky_900,

It’s like listening to the best band in your town and then comparing it to the music at the top of the global charts. The pure scale means you’re gonna get better bands if you include “everyone”. But I totally also hope Lemmy gets bigger. As a platform it isn’t inferior in terms of UX. We just need everyone to switch.

SexualPolytope,
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Tbh, I find most of the music on top of the global charts to be obnoxious bullshit.

Rusky_900,

That’s fair. Let’s rather go with a music platform. That has everything.

plumbercraic,
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I find it’s better when I sort by top 6h

Madbrad200,

Change sorting to “Top 6hr”. I browse by Hot sometimes but that’s my primary sort atm

Isoprenoid,

The biggest issue is Lemmy shows old posts for too long on the front page

There is an easy solution to that:

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/0f15c115-1601-4bbd-8c95-680e726b1716.png

Ignacio,

That doesn’t have to be a bad thing. I commented on posts that were weeks old or a month old. Reddit had this bad habit that everything older than 30 minutes was irrelevant already.

Sure, seeing old posts doesn’t help to create an image of activity. But don’t think that something old is irrelevant, unless it’s a news post.

SlothMama,

I am kinda glad, and it reminds me of early Digg. When I first used Digg, it didn’t tailor the order or content of anything to you, it didn’t use an algorithm to keep throwing content at you, changing the order of what you see, and Lemmy reminds me of this.

I’m not here up be addicted or scroll endlessly, if anything, Lemmy feels healthier, like I can walk away and do something else.

dan,
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That must have been very early in Digg’s lifetime. I remember power users like MrBabyMan always being in the first few positions on the front page.

w00tabaga,

Cut out Reddit completely if you haven’t already, that helps a lot.

Reddit is so much bigger, but if you remove that competition to cure the same “itch”… you’ll be here more.

ComradePorkRoll,

Just enjoy the detox.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/97d946bf-1ce4-4403-b89b-1288c3547e87.jpeg

nieceandtows,

I guess this would be just as addictive once gifs and video work as expected, and we start seeing tons of short videos.

muddybulldog,

Only because I can read the whole thing significantly faster than Reddit.

drekly,

It wasn’t until I started using sync, and my scrolling time skyrocketed.

Little8Lost,

Same with lemmy, but i switch between like 7 apps when i need other functional features

Sigmatank,

There a few things that we just haven’t crossed the threshold for yet that I found engaging (if not “addictive”) at Reddit, several of which were live threads about an event (NFL/NBA/Soccer/F1/etc). We’re not big enough here for that yet, where Mastodon is (you can get awesome interaction on hashtags about topics while they’re happening). The other thing was when a post got popular you could scroll through hundreds of comments with at least some thought behind them, and here it’s more like 10-25. The content is often better here, there is just less of it. Which is fine for me, it’s just a slightly different experience than I was having at Reddit, but I think some of those things will come with time.

OldWoodFrame,

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.

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