It seems good enough to pass the time to me. But the niche communities on here just aren't as active, or the discussions not as rich. For example the stable diffusion sub I visit hardly gets traffic, and it's mostly people posting pictures. Whereas on Reddit, the was more news and discussions about workflow and resources.
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Lemmy has pretty much replaced my other social media scrolling. I probably spend about the same amount of time here as I used to spend flicking between fb and reddit, but I spend more time reading and interacting here.
Weird that I'm actually more engaged with a platform that doesn't really have an aggressive engagement algorithm.
it hasn't attracted grifters who could "addictify" content to post yet perhaps?
Like you know it's like health food, before people add extra sugar and salt and whatever to have people eat too much
tbh I donβt fall into rabbitholes here the way one may on Reddit, but I feel like the time I spend here is more worthwhile; So the analogy of Lemmy being healthy food, and Reddit being junk food makes sense to me.
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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.
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.
I either get downvoted hard or upvoted hard so it's kind of addictive that way
That's because there's no drama here. On reddit there's non stop controversy and sub drama and that kind of shit is addicting whether you realize it or not.
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.
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Reddit is crack ... because it took years of cocaine use before users converted it into crack
Lemmy right now is just cocaine .... just keep using it for a few years and you'll eventually start turning the cocaine into crack ... it's still an addiction but right now we believe that we can manage the addiction and use it and not use it at will .. give it time and we will eventually get to the point of doom scrolling endless content like a helpless crack addict. Enjoy Lemmy while you can, we are building a tolerance and we will eventually want to ramp up our usage in a few years and whore ourselves out for the next hit.
Nah mate I'm refreshing the Top Hour sort every 30 minutes
I spent more time here than on Reddit ΰ² _ΰ²
The load is spread in different apps though.
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).
I never actually had a Reddit account so there wasn't an opportunity for them to customise a feed to me. That being the case after getting a bumch of random communities subscribed via bot the 'all' feed here seems to largely resemble Reddit for the non-logged in. The only part that's a bit oboxious is the multi-comminity posting where one user sends the same thing to a similar community on mutiple hosts. Hopefully at some point there's a way to create some kind of multi-homed community so they're not so independent of each other.