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 think for me is the lack of integrated video content in the lemmy apps (on ios anyway). On reddit, the videos are mostly hosted on v.reddit.com directly and they are automatically loaded and displayed in the apps. In lemmy, it’s often handled as external links that we have to open in a browser. It’s less integrated, less « alive ». I don’t use the web UIs so I don’t know if it’s the same there.
I am currently trying several lemmy apps on android and most videos play in the apps. Some of them even autoplay as you scroll past.
That’s good to hear. It means that the same behaviour should make it’s way to most ios apps soon too.
What didn’t help too, is that we had almost perfect mature apps before for reddit (e.g.: Apollo), and now we have to start over from scratch with new apps. Dev teams are doing a phenomenal job, but the transition can be bumpy sometimes.