I caught myself loads of times scrolling on Reddit while not even paying attention, or while scrolling on Reddit to then close it immediately opening Reddit again to continue scrolling.
It felt just like any other social media app, scrolling mindlessly, for at least a few hours a day. I noticed this has changed since I’ve been using Lemmy, where I might spend 30 minutes a day on. I’m curious if other experience this too! It feels nice to be freed from Reddit.
The only reason I use Lemmy less than I used reddit is the lack of content, I was following so many subreddits that every time I sorted by new I could scroll for hours before I hit the posts I’d seen last time I opened the app. Here there just aren’t as many communities and a lot of the ones I’m following are dead so my feed is just the same 20 posts every time I open it.
And actual content or discussions I want to engage with. Plenty of memes here, but if I want to talk about any hobbies that aren’t Linux or video games, there just isn’t much here (yet).
So for better and worse, I also spend less time on lemmy than I did on reddit
Also the constant outcries from vegans and environmentalists…like we get it, the world is on fire. You’re not the first to tell me that and there’s little I can do about it. It’s so exhausting.
I probably had only around 70 subs in my list of Reddit. On lemmy, I have 274.
But if you add up the active users in your subs and communities, the subs would still outweigh the communities significantly
Agreed, but it seems to be improving
Yes. Like others have said, the content hasn’t quite caught up in volume or diversity.
But I think another factor is that when I fire up Lemmy, it feels like r/all in that I’m getting everything. There seem to be quite a number of meme-themed
subredditscommunities that dominate my All feed. Now that I think about it, I should probably make the effort to block those; I’ve made that effort on kbin.In a way, I think it might be nice to have something equivalent to r/popular, fwiw.
Minor nit: “community” (“magazine” on kbin) doesn’t have the same ‘zing’ as “subreddit”. We need something like “sublemmy” or “sublem”.
Root problem Is the name ‘Lemmy’, which is kinda lame-y.
Also bad is that we’re not called Redditors but … lemmings? Lemurs?
Almost worth changing the name.
I’d like to to spend the same time on Lemmy, but then I just see the same posts all over again.
Yes, but only because the communities I used to be part of on reddit just aren’t the same here, in number of users or content. Maybe that will change, and I hope it does, but I keep seeing people being put off as Lemmy has been down so much or people have trouble creating an account and give up. I don’t dislike that Lemmy is smaller, it’s nice to have more real conversations with people, but the subreddit I used the most was my local city’s, and there just isn’t another space like that online. I miss it.
I’d say less time, probably b/c Lemmy doesn’t have a predatory algorithm to keep me on it for hours on end.
What pissed me off about reddit is how it fingerprinted your machine.
If you don’t know what that is, be scared. Be very scared.
That meant if some power-mad admin lording it over some subreddit blocked me for petty reasons, it would be easy to get all my other 6 alt accounts permanently banned.
F YOU for that, reddit.
Found some anti-fingerprinting defenses, which protect me at other sites, is the only silver lining.
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I’m actually spending more time. :-)
Yeah my browsing time has gone down compared to Reddit. But Lemmy has far less mindless content, if I’m on here I’m more engaged and actively read articles linked or write comments.
Yes, definitely! I wonder what that is. Because I definitely engage way more with the actual content, reading full articles, actually opening articles…on Reddit, I was so angry with myself because I wouldn’t actually read the shit. Which was very unlike me. Very odd
For me I’m on the website, and I need to click on “Next Page” which takes a bit of time to load, as well as Basically making everything before disepear and it can be hard to find it again
I suppose part of it is that a lot of Reddit content was repetitive, and also, because Lemmy is still much smaller, there are less mindless posts and comments, which make me take contributions more serious and cause me to be less frustrated about scrolling over comments which are only empty noise
Im beginning to use lemmy more and more and preferring it over reddit. Its much better, conversationally and without the suggested Jesus and Army and Navy ads etc. However my usage is still similar to reddit, ie scrolling and reading alot of things and memes etc. But the conversational interactions seem alot more productive, i like that.
The amount of time wasted on our attention spans because of ads… Sometimes I feel suffocated, it feels like an intruder trying to crack open my skull through repetition. It’s so nice to be able to go on a website with no ads like lemmy! MY ADBLOCKER DOES NOTHING IT HAS NOT HAPPENED IN THE PAST 10 YEARS
My adblockers work so well I haven’t seen a reddit ad in years.
I use block origin, noscript, plus my own pihole.
Yeah cuz I tend to run out of content quicker, but it gets refilled quite a bit throughout the day
I quit Reddit a while back so it’s nice being on a similar place again. I scroll through federated posts mostly, since that matches scrolling through r/all.
I spend more time on Lemmy, but that’s mostly because I admin an instance.
We appreciate you admins and mods!
Same. But even before that I was spending a ton of time as a regular user trying to generate activity. I think I’m finally starting to relax a little bit because Lemmy seems to be stabilizing. Growth has slowed but the core users are more active than ever, and people are starting to form sustainable communities. It feels so right to be a part of this.
100％. I was so addicted to reddit I would, like you said, open it without even noticing I did it. It was really shocking to me how many hours a day I was pissing away reading the reposts of bots and the thoughts of teen edge lords. The protests came at a great time, havent been back since (my sub is still on private hehe…) anyway, popping in here is fun and everything but I dont think it’ll ever get as bad as it was.
I’ve been splitting my old Reddit time across multiple sites and projects now. I’m pretty keen on watching the content at squabbles, they’ve generally got a really positive environment and nice pictures.
Also been working on improving kbin since it’s open source, great to get some mobile centric changes to make everyone’s experience a little better 🦙
I am starting to. Still browse Reddit occasionally for the communities that are not in here yet.
Reddit as a whole seems a lot less populated. Example, the r/android sub is nowhere near as active as it used to be.
