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.
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
This a thousands percent.
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
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
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
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
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
Nope. I spend significantly more time, attempting to engage and energize this community. :)
not sure if more or less, but the time spent here is 100% more enjoyable. With corporate social media there’s always this vague sense of brain-rot going on in the background. Don’t feel this here. Actually had some nice conversations over the fast few weeks.
I’d like to to spend the same time on Lemmy, but then I just see the same posts all over again.
I actually am spending about the same amount of time on Lemmy as I used to on reddit, modulo interesting posts for me to interact with.
Me too. I’m glad to not have any more or less really and content here seems to not yet be from the same 20 ppl.
Mostly cuz there’s a lot less stuff to do here. A lot of my favorite communities haven’t migrated over yet., and the ones that are here aren’t very active. The ALL feed seems to be mostly news, politics, and old memes, nothing I really care for.
I think I’m still getting used to lemmy and navigating around I think subconsciously I am put off by this… Once I get the hang of it I am sure my habits will go back.
Yes. Lemmy goes down too, forcing me to step away from it.
Yeah, and it’s a good thing… also, I comment now which I didnt really bother to do on reddit.
Threepwood!
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 spend more time on Lemmy, but that’s mostly because I admin an instance.
We appreciate you admins and mods!
Yes. I browse for less time now, but I find the interactions and content on Lemmy and other federated sites to be more enriching, interesting, and civil.
I mainly access reddit by Google searches, so yes unfortunately I am still tied down to reddit somewhat. Too mad Lemmy never is a result on Google when asking a question
My hope is that there will be eventually. Lemmy is slowly surfacing already, before, when searching ‘lemmy’ on google, the musician had a big display, now it’s toned down and shared with lemmy making some of the top results.
