Comment on I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy
MusketeerX@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m spending way more time!
I didn’t really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read ‘all’, I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn’t post and comment much.
Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.
I think overall my social media time has gone down considerably, but my direct interaction (ie posting and commenting) has gone up.
For me it helps to know that somebody is actually going to read this comment and it won’t be buried under 1000 others. You usually had to get to a post pretty early on Reddit to have your comment be seen, and I mostly browsed /all.
Interactions also feel more genuine because of the lack of karma counter, at least not officially, a decision that I hope they keep. There are less karma whoring and more sharing your real thoughts here
Less doom scrolling, more engagement in stuff you're interested in.
Just the feeling of people actually reading your comment and not just lookibg at the upvode/downvote to tell them how to feel does a lot for my motivation to engage.
Sometimes smaller numbers is good for the community.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 months ago
Yeah I also post and comment way more. I probably have more comments here during the last month than I had there combined since 2006.