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?
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.
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
It sort of feels like the old days of reddit. I had forgotten how nice it was.
deeper and more meaningful
Ah yes, like the “how do I not poop for 3 days?” post.
Instant classic
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
Oh this is nice. This will be helpful.
Nice. Super helpful. Thanks.
Is there a way to add stuff to that? I made Evil Buildings on here which isn’t listed on that site. It’s not official, though I’d be happy to speak with the mods of the subreddit if they wanted to chat about it
Edit: Nvm I’m dumb, it’s literally the first link after the top bar of faq and similar
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.
Oh wow, specially the communities view is gold. Thank you! This will be great to share people also when reddit third party clients disappears.
I love this, thank you!
Not sure if the privacy settings would allow such a thing, but would a recommended feature based on your account be a possibility for the future?
The issue is getting access to your account and figuring out how to “reccomend” communities. The way reddt etc do it is by analyzing other user data, which I don’t have. Perhaps we could manually tag communities somehow. 🤔
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 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.
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.
To me, the problem is that usually only a small percentage of people in the small-medium subs were actually content submitters. Personally, I would comment on things often (or lurk), but not submit news and articles. I honestly still jump to reddit once a day to check major news, which will be much harder when my 3rd party app is gone.
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I know they are called communities, but I really wish they were called “sublime”.
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 feel like sorting by new on reddit for many years has just kinda been a cesspool. Like 1 post worth seeing per page lol
Yup. And the amount of not-so-subtly sponsored posts got way too obvious to ignore. Like idk if they get click shared revenue or just want more engagement with certain posts for some other reason, but there’s no legitimate reason why the same exact <100 word article loaded with embedded ads every ten words would be posted to 30 different subs by different accounts.
Looking at new/all on Reddit is scary lol, lots of fucking dicks out there man… LOTS of dicks.
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!)
Absolutely. Seeing mostly posts about poop and Reddit gets boring quickly.
Same here. More users, more topics and more posts are welcome!
No, honestly.
I hate that the algorithm is super broken and the only meaningful sort option is “TopDay”, which means Lemmy is only good for me to look at once every day at the same time.
Admittedly, I’m so bored, I open Boost for Reddit for more content.
Really hope more content comes to lemmy before third party apps shut down.
Since the 0.18 update I find that the sorting is working pretty well. I also like that there are now options for Top 1 Hour, Top 6 Hour and Top 12 Hours.
Jerboa needs this added
I agree. I have been using the mobile website again because Jerboa doesn’t have these sorting options.
I have been quite happy with Lemmy’s mobile web interface, and relieved that there’s no real need to install and trust an app. The only reason I used apps for Reddit was that they deliberately made their mobile website unusable.
That’s true but I will still switch to Sync for Lemmy as soon as it’s ready because Sync is just that good and I’m familiar with the UI/UX
Agree. I find the slower pace or lack of an algorithm or whatever it is is leading to me opening lemmy, then kbin around once or twice per day (have 2 accounts and slightly different subs between them which is frustrating in itself).
Then I find myself back on reddit for a bit more scrolling, particularly of the communities I haven’t found an alternative for or that are still more active on reddit.
I suspect this will change come July when the Relay app that I use on mobile presumably ceases to function due to the API changes. And my routine will just be kbin/lemmy (hoping for a unified app soon on android). But I’m not sure that’s necessarily a bad thing and might reduce my overall screen time a bit.
Still, I am sad the reddit golden age is effectively over at this point.
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And my routine will just be kbin/lemmy (hoping for a unified app soon on android).
Eh - you can join Kbin Magazines with a lemmy account, and Lemmy communities with a Kbin account.
Honestly It’s been way worse for me lol, the discussions here are actually meaningful so I can sink way too much time reading threads instead of getting bored after looking at 5 consecutive reposted memes on reddit
Edit: I’m not complaining though, this is definitely better
i hope the bulk of reddit stay where they are now. we dont need those really. also so many instances to read from. we dont seem to be running out of content here any time soon.
The only thing that somewhat bothers me is that, if I Google something 8/10 times I’ll have a reddit thread(s) as the top result. I don’t feel like giving reddit revenue or clicks though. (I do have adblock on PC and revanced on the reddit app so I try to minimise it).
But instead of using reddit every 1hr or so for 15min, I now use reddit 1 a week maybe for 10mins.
well they brought it on themselves. mods and users are the ones who made it what it is. Denying users third party apps is a straight spit in the face. best way is just consume their media with null telemetry and 0 shame.
I work in IT and reddit is (and will probably remain) a huge resource for my job. So I don’t think that’s going anywhere any time soon. Not using them as my main “feed” is a huge boon though.
Yep! Slowly we’ll eventually get rid of it. Just like any migration :)
I’m hoping code overflow + GPT will be good enough to minimize the number of times I have to go on there…
For real? Most of the frontpage of lemmy seems to be filled with memes and news about reddit, both of which I don’t care about. Of course, I had curated my reddit feed over time and seems like it will take time to do the same over here.
Yeah, it feels like having a much smaller community harkens back to earlier internet days. I remember spending hours on the world of warcraft off topic forum back in the day. Always had great conversations and met some awesome interesting people.
I feel more the lack of my favorite communities that haven’t made the jump. Some alternative attempts exist here but are dead. I miss the variety of topics and random discovery as well.
I miss the /r/legaladvice drama and the fun on /r/bestoflegaladvice. That was my go-to “take a break and feel better about my life” sub where I would also learn things occasionally.
I’ll add I miss r/aspergirls dearly.
I also miss AskScience and AskHistorians and CongratsLikeImFive and dadswhodidntwantpets and Epilepsy and excatholic and HobbyDrama and HomeschoolRecovery and lotrmemes and TIFU and OutOfTheLoop and outside and Random_Acts_of_Pizza and SubredditDrama and sysadminhumor and WotchesVsPatriarchy 😔
They are still there, you can still participate if you want. Lemmy isn’t a religion, and I promise you will not be shunned and sent to hell if you hang out on Reddit for the subs you miss.
Yeah that is always a shame. There are a few communities that I am missing still as well.
Yeah I still have to go to reddit for good, solid PC gaming news or updates about Starfield. The CFB subreddit as well. It feels like my frontpage/subscribed on Lemmy is a shell of what it used to be, and maybe that’s a good thing but I feel like I have to keep going back for random stuff.
One big issue I have with federation is that there are like 4 versions of r/gaming, each with their own pace of content but they don’t seem to be getting updated in Lemmy.world. I’m tempted to make an account on .ml or .ca just to get more content since .world is defederated by a few places.
but they don’t seem to be getting updated in Lemmy.world.
I think that’s something to do with the version of Lemmy that .world is currently on, so that should hopefully be resolved relatively soon.
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.
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.
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.
So much this. I had so much anxiety and anger on /r/all. It’s so political and just nasty and toxic. Not all of it, but it was a daily occurrence for sure.
A few.monthd ago I switched back to my subbed feed and made sure to purge anything political and man, my mental health went way up. I felt like a different person.
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.
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
Maybe top isn’t the best sort then. I get a mix of stuff but asklemmy and memes are two of the most popular communities (that my instance connected to? IDK still learning) so I do see a lot of posts from there.
Maybe something like hot or active would be more diverse but I don’t know since the instance I’m on is still on 0.17.4 and I heard those are fixed in .18
Edit: lemm.ee did just update to .18.1 and all hot does seem more diverse for me at first glance.
That was on hot.
And I tried a bunch of times replying to this comment when I first saw it two days ago, and repeatedly got network errors.
Again, I want to stress - directionally, I think federated systems are a cool, good, and functional idea. Presently, it’s disingenuous to pretend they are fit for purpose.
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
I never really scrolled through r/all, just the selection of subreddits I’ve explicitly opted into. And it paid off, my feed was overwhelmingly filled with content was interested in.
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 definitely something we need to train ourselves out of. How depressing that a few years of social media has changed us that much
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.
Changing to Lemmy from Reddit is like switching to smoking marijuana after a crippling cocaine addiction.
The lack of unwanted rage bait posts and karma farmers has improved my mood by a lot. I gotta be honest though, I’m still scrolling through Apollo and giving myself my last dopamine hits before July 1st. Won’t miss that place
Being used to high-traffic subreddits it’s definitely a change one needs to adapt to. But I slowly start enjoying it. I just wish there was more non-meta content. Most of it is directly or indirectly related to Lemmy oder the Fediverse in general.
Yeah, I think that will settle with time. It’s fresh on everyone’s minds right now. As Lemmy continues it will become more of its own thing.
Personally no. I used the scrolling to escape stress and just be mindless.
Now I don’t do it as much since there isn’t as much. When I try, it’s not the same since it’s slower and just not as much stuff. Also too many posts either about reddit or the fediverse. Honestly I’m tired about (metaish) posts of either of those.
Also the comments were better on Reddit (for me) just mainly because of higher quantity leading to semblance of quality.
I personally hope it goes faster over time with more variety and niches… I miss posting a comment on some places and getting more responses/conversations.
I agree, when you just want that escape it can be a bit of a doldrum of content. The meta stuff is a bit annoying now too but I’m hoping that will pass once the reddit refugees (like myself) settle in and start to find their Lemmy voice.
I agree, when you just want that escape it can be a bit of a doldrum of content. The meta stuff is a bit annoying now too but I’m hoping that will pass once the reddit refugees (like myself) settle in and start to find their Lemmy voice.
I agree, when you just want that escape it can be a bit of a doldrum of content. The meta stuff is a bit annoying now too but I’m hoping that will pass once the reddit refugees (like myself) settle in and start to find their Lemmy voice.
I do, but sometimes I get a feeling that I’m not seeing all the content I should be seeing.
I think that’s the feeling that I don’t miss. It was like with reddit I could always get that fix. There was plenty of blue links left to satiate my dopamine drip. With Lemmy, the content is a lot less so I don’t feel the need to just scroll and scroll. I hope on, get my kick, hit the end for that day, then go back to doing stuff IRL.
