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?
What I find sad is that on Reddit I was on lots of tech stuff, but also just talking with random tran drivers, firemen, cyclists, and meme people.
On Lemmy its mostly just tech.
With Connect app it’s exactly like Reddit. Maybe you need to subscribe to more sublemmy or scroll on global and not local. It’s literally the same as Reddit minus the amount of reposts, astroturfing and a little less negative. Maybe you miss that?
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
It wasn’t until I started using sync, and my scrolling time skyrocketed.
It’s not supposed to be. It doesn’t jam endless recommendations in your feed once you’ve gotten at the end of the new, fresh content. I feel like it’s a feature, not a bug, to have platforms that don’t optimise for time spent on them, because they don’t need our attention to show us ads.
I’m so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We’re not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn’t try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.
