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?
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.
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.
Only because I can read the whole thing significantly faster than Reddit.
It isn’t designed to be as engaging. It’s a service not a product for sale
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.
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.
I don’t know why but personally lemmy is much more addictive than reddit. The content makes me discover more relevant things and with reddit I felt like been in a loop with always the same content or not relevant content maybe the threads I subscribed to were not the bests.
I find it just addictive enough. There are definitely lulls in activity, but they’re short-lived and I have things I should be doing besides shitposting so it’s actually helped me.
The quality, however, is much higher. This can be very subjective, but I do have some real world evidence. The number of times I’d show someone a meme and have them say “Please send that to me” has definitely gone up since I switched to the fediverse.
That’s really sweet.
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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.
Lemmy is definitively less addicting than Reddit, but it is still addicting, because it uses the up-/downvote mechanism.
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.
Yes and no, I feels like it absolutely could be as addictive as Reddit but there just isn’t enough content being generated for me to powerscroll for hours only to do the same thing the next day
Yeah, check it in the morning. Check again at night and it’s the same content. Bed by 8pm instead of 11.
Guess you need to sort by Hot
Be patient.
Lemmy is still establishing itself as the goto replacement for Reddit. New communities are popping up all the time and more users will come.
I’m excited for it! I’m personally trying to build some of the really niche communities that were big before, like the tiny EarthBound one.
Thing is, though, is the site really growing? After most have just put up with Reddit’s bullshit, I can’t really find recent statistics of Lemmy’s active user base. And the few results I could find just show it’s being stagnant, or even shrinking. I could be wrong, though, if it is growing, even better!
fedidb.org is good.
We’re still in the downturn from users who tried Lemmy, and then stopped using it. They are now dropping off the active usercount, causing it to go down.
Total usercount is still increasing, meaning new users are still finding their way here.
That’s actually a much more likely situation, sinc all of these sites use the monthly active users of it’s main metric, and it’s been 2 months since Reddit shot itself in the foot.
Honestly, I was so close to not using Lemmy at all. It looked so alien to me, like is this really the next most popular community website to Reddit? But no matter how clunky and unintuitive it was, I was determined to make it work. After some good third party apps, I’m more than satisfied.
However, can’t be said for everyone. It’s clear most people made an account, had no idea what an “instance” was, and then just gave up. Lemmy should invest in making their main website easy to learn and get the hang of, and try to become more popular, accessible, and branch out. Some might say how small it is gives it charm, but undeniably more people (maybe not on one instance) is better.
What this first wave has done is moved over a lot of early adopters, those types of people overlap with innovators.
Lemmy improved massively during the wave, and we are now getting great apps.
I for one will push for making signing up for an account in Thunder possible, so we can build better UX around joining Lemmy.
Lemmy itself has also seen a big jump in quality. There is now Photon, an alternative frontend that’s a lot slicker, and can be installed by instances to replace the current webUI.
The next time something triggers people to go look for something else, Lemmy will be looking a lot more ready.
Growing is not linear, particular not when competing with a larger alternative.
What basically needs to happen is that Reddit needs to fuck up a couple of more times. Some smaller stuff will net some users, largest stuff, many. After a while critical mass has been reached and it’ll be easier to grown naturally.
Well, that’s at least what I think needs to happen. I’m fully confident Reddit will fuck up as well. Though, this is a marathon, not a sprint.
Have a look at [email protected]
Communities are growing
No bots or people posting the same videos/posts that get 1k+ karma trying to make money by selling accounts.
I’m not saying I want an algorithm, but “hot” or “active” needs to be better at showing things other than memes
Maybe it’s just that memes are the hottest material for now.
Hot is basically just “active” but based on upvotes, and the people in c/memes think that giving upvotes completely randomly is good for lemmy
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).
@[email protected] 2 years
Ty
