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?
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.