I had been feeling a bit drawn in to reddit for the past few months before the divorce. I feel like the slower pace at which content comes out on Lemmy is good for me in that way. I can’t just scroll and scroll and scroll my entire day away.
Does anyone else feel similar?
No. I really hope a few million users move over to lemmy and make it a bigger platform. I want to see more diverse content more frequently. I don’t need infinite content like on Reddit but I don’t want to see the same posts days in a row.
There’s a decent amount of activity tbf, it’s just that the lemmy algorithm is worse at surfacing it than Reddit was. I recommend sorting by top(hour) or even new(don’t worry, lemmys new feed is a lot better than reddits!)
Same here. More users, more topics and more posts are welcome!
For the popular communities, yes. For the smaller niche communities it just feels empty and sad. Hope this platform catches on so the “there’s a subreddit for everything” quote could be a thing here too.
I think you need to move to medium-sized communities for a little bit. like /android instead of /myspecificphonemodel, or /electriccars instead of /myspecificelectriccarmodel.
The great thing about small communities is that you only need to convince a handful of people to jump ship to get them started again.
I feel that. I’m finding myself gravitate back to going directly to individual blogs. Just in the past couple of weeks, I’ve been introduced to new blogs on these smaller, more slower-paced niche communities. So it feels reminiscent of how I used to use the Internet 10-15 years ago before Reddit and monetization of everything. I had a handful of places I’d rotate through. It was just enough that there was usually something new everyday, but not an infinite sea of content. And I’m finding now that I’m actually reading the links being posted instead of just reading the comments. It kind of makes me think of how people used to watch TV. A show would release one episode a week and you had to wait for next week’s show. And there was a limited number of shows. Now with all the content on all the streaming platforms plus YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc. there’s an endless amount of content to consume and no built-in breaks so you can literally binge non-stop.
With Reddit or other fill-in-the-blank service where your attention is the end goal to sell ads, the incentive is to get you to never pause, never take a break, never leave. It was exhausting. Here, it feels more relaxed.
Yes, I get that. I have a few fond memories of old old forums. With that said, Reddit’s ease of discovery for niche communities and my ability to instantly join the discussion without signing up to yet another website is something I will miss.
The thing with reddit is you would scroll and scroll and not find anything interesting, just little blips of dopamine in sea of inane content. I don’t like everything posted on lemmy but I find it far higher quality overall.
Tthe sea of most upvoted content in r/all always come from the same handful of subs anyway. I don’t miss that one bit at all, but I do worry about my Google results showing empty Reddit links when I’m looking for reviews and answers about some niche products. Reddit is seriously the only place I trust in finding genuine reviews.
Man I don’t know, I loved my homepage. Just so much shared passion for my hobbies and everyone was so positive and happy.
I might just have to stay on Reddit, the equivalent communitues are absolutely dead here.
Fully agree with r/popular though
But you also can’t just scroll endlessly through unknown stuff. There are thousands of rich, but extremely niche subs. There’s one for cultivating worms!
On Reddit, you could just scroll through /all and get bombarded with stuff you would never even think about looking for. That’s (at least currently) not possible here.
True but you don’t really mindlessly scroll through those communities, you mostly go on r/all or other popular communities for that. I used to watch a ton of content on r/videos but then some days I would scroll through the front page and just not find anything relatable to me. I joined the site pretty early, like back when it was mostly tech people. So to me the site got worse content wise but if that was the worst of it I could of accepted just hanging out in niche subs.
I just visited r/all and mostly just found American politics and low effort content. It’s just not for me personally.
Eh, whenever I looked at /popular or /all it seemed to be full of angry things like r/mildlyinfuriating or r/trashy and other stuff like politics which was just angry divisive stuff. I like the more chill and tech-focused things here.
You kind of can, sort by all, then top day or top week. It won’t be LITERALLY everything but it’s something.
Are you joking? It’s always asklemmy, memes, announcements, programmerhumour, and maybe one or two others for me.
Edit: just checked again, it’s:
An asklemmy from 2 days ago A meme from 18 hours ago A meme from 14 hours ago A “Reddit” post from 2 days ago
Yes. Truthfully for the last 2-3 years I have been dismayed with the direction social media in general were going, not only Reddit. Here were the 3 major issues I had: 1- lower quality of content & the volume of bad content drowning out the good, 2- the corruption of the companies themselves, and 3- the toxic social environment with nasty behavior becoming the norm. I think that fragmenting the web into smaller and more distributed communities, with a slower pace, will probably be a good thing at this point in time.
PS I’m happy to admit the web has always had a dark side, but it had gotten noticeably much worse in recent years.
3 is the biggest thing about pivoting more towards Lemmy / traditional forums for me. It’s been really nice feeling like I’m not drowning in a sea of trite idiocy and unempathetic rage every time I open a comment section. It’s genuinely refreshing to feel like I’m actually engaging with normal people again.
I definitely find the content to be deeper and more meaningful. I like the slower pace but I find myself excited to see posts with lots of comments.
deeper and more meaningful
Ah yes, like the “how do I not poop for 3 days?” post.
There also seems to be a deeper sense of community, at least in a few instances and communities, than I’ve experienced in a long time, excluding some of the more niche-er subs
I’ve engaged more with posts on Lemmy than all of my years on Reddit due to the deeper sense of community.
It’s really cut down the amount of endless doom scrolling I’d do throughout the day as well
I’ve become used to the endless stream of content from Reddit, so a part of me says no and the other says yes
Yup, when i mindlessly open lemmy something in my brain doeant jive.
But i really hope i get away from that quick dopamine chase.
It’s probably not going to last.
Breaking free of radicalizing algorithms and agenda driven rage farmers will feel weird for a while. There’s a process of recovery when healing from any destructive addiction.
Idk about everyone else, but I sort by new on Lemmy and “all” WAY more than I ever would on reddit. Even sorting by new or all on reddit it just shuffles around the same 100 posts they want you to see. Here people post about all kinds of stuff!
I do, but sometimes I get a feeling that I’m not seeing all the content I should be seeing.
I definitely see it as a double edge sword. On one hand I don’t mindlessly scroll as much, on the other, the lack of content is just because I’m figuring out the quirks, and I have a feeling finding new and weird communities could be a McGuffin quest.
I’ve been constantly going on https://browse.feddit.de/ to see if there any new communities that I’d like to join. Really do wish it were easier to discover communities but it is what it is
You could try sub.rehab for a list of sub equivalents.
I made https://lemmyverse.net for this reason 😊
Great site but list view for communities looks like this on my phone, the instances list view worked fine though.
Yeah I noticed that, the grid view is better on mobile, that’s for sure. the list view needs a bit of work to make it reactive, I’ll see what I can do.
Yes, kinda, sorta. It’s like an addict going cold turkey. I feel the urge for a faster paced feed from time to time. It’s unsettling how much I’ve been accustomed to this kind of BS.
Exactly! It’s like I didn’t realize how much I was itching for the next blue link until it wasn’t readily available. It really helped out things in perspective for me.
Because of the slow nature of content I ended up being subscribed to more communities than I would have back at Reddit. My feed is still 99% 196 just like in Reddit, but instead of needing to pop into r/all or r/popular every few hours, the New Comments sort ends up “sprinkling” interesting stuff from other communities into my feed.
I know I’m late to the party but is there any chance you can explain 196 to me?
There once was a r/195 which I’m late to the party for but was apparently just a dumping ground of memes by a bunch of students who all lived in dorm room 195 (or something along those lines) so when it shut down people who wanted to keep something like that going decided to set up r/196
The only rule (technically there were a few more such as no NFT avatars, or that one specific person could post porn if censored correctly) was that you had to post something before you left if you opened the sub. So it became a weird meme dumping ground, and because the mods weren’t assholes it ended up being a pretty nice space for left leaning folk and gender minorities.
No clue why posts are just titled “rule”. I assume it started out as people simply not having a title in mind when posting, and then just kinda stuck.
It is a blessing for someone like me who had a lot of difficulties to stay away from reddit. Lemmy gives me a slow paced window of reddit, with RSS feeds taking up the rest of the free time. So in the end the time I spend is more focussed on my interests but driven by reputable sites instead of someone in reddit.
To be perfectly honest, no :(
Reddit is just so incredibly massive, there’s always something new and interesting to find in /r/all
I hope one day that lemmy can achieve such reach.
