Submitted 11 hours ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I realize it won’t be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it’s a perfect signal that I’ve done more than enough scrolling for the day
Even better, I set it to hide read posts. Who knew there was a bottom to the internet?
Using a combination of top day, mark read on scroll, and hide read, I regularly reach the end of the internet, and am glad.
How do you do this? My main problem with Lemmy is that I always see the same posts
I’m using the Boost for Lemmy app on Android. My memory is that the Sync for Lemmy app also has the “mark read on scroll past” feature. I thought I read a discussion that implied that some web Uis for Lemmy also had this, but that’s not what I use and not what I know.
What client are you using to read Lemmy?
I know what you mean. It’s good but not TOO good. Proper proportions of honey and shit.
That’s the beauty of having a platform where your engagement does not matter because there are no advertisers to woo.
On the one hand, this could dishearten moderators and admins if there are fewer engagements and traffic in the community.
It also reminds me to post something back somewhere.
Yes but no but.
On a busy day when I only have a limited time to browse and I don’t want to get trapped in the infinite “just one more page bro” cycle? Yeah Lemmy is good for that. But if I need something to pass the time for more than an hour or so (transit layover, extremely delayed appointment, sick day at home, etc) Lemmy has neither the constant influx of new content nor the archive of old content to allow for hours of distracting rabbit holes to explore.
Yeah, I just sort by new. I see everything posted in my subscriptions, and can just be done for a while. It’s great. And early comments get more upvotes, heh.
I mute a ton of communities, and I really like quickly getting to the “end” of All. Then I’ve blocked some other dopamine sites, so I get bored and go play outside 🤣
Wait, the “All” feed has an end? I need to step up my game
Yeah, All Top [time duration] just pulls the most highly voted of the selected time length. The shorter the time period the easier it is to run out.
You can also really feel that the algorithm doesn’t just blindly promote click/rage bait the way that reddit’s does.
It still gets promoted some times, but the front page isn’t constantly filled with it like Reddit’s is,.
I like that on Lemmy you can comment on a 20+ hour old thread from the “front page” and still have a good chance at responses or interaction from other users.
Any subreddit that regularly hits the front page of Reddit requires that users comment in the first hour or two of the post being made, or latch onto some chain from the top existing comments, or else your comment is basically just thrown into the void. It’s even worse now that Reddit has started showing day or week old posts on the front page, like why bother commenting on those posts when absolutely no one will see it…
They’re showing day or weed old posts on the front page? I wonder if they’re losing members that give content or is there another reason?
Yep, if you open any subreddit (not including the reddit.com front page), it sprinkles days old posts in with the default “Best” filter. It’s a mystifyingly annoying change because from a user perspective you have to re-read the same post multiple times each week, and there’s no point further commenting on those threads because no one else is still engaging with them.
It’s like the worst of all worlds combination of old forums and old Reddit, because old threads keep getting necro-ed, but users have no control over which ones are coming back or when they do.
Same, I much prefer paged scrolling as well, its easier to control or measure how much you scroll.
Yup, and then if you do endlessly scroll all you get to see either very wild takes, porn, and/or extremely niche start up communities, depending on your level of federation.
Shame it takes so long to get to the good stuff.
I actually have way too much to go through if I’m being honest. Last year, it had a good number of posts to go through and stop, now, I have way too many to cover.
It’s like a better version of Reddit in 2025, but what I really want is Ye Olde Reddit of 2010. I keep seeing comments about how Reddit turned to shit with the API changes, but IMO it’s been garbage for more than a decade. I haven’t been on Lemmy for long but so far I’ve mostly seen the same posts as on Reddit with mostly the same types of comment, just at smaller scale.
When I joined Reddit around the same time, people who had been on Reddit since it actually started were also complaining it was shit. 🤣
Yeah it’s the classic problem… quality goes down as population goes up. Never mind whatever dumb shit the company does.
I realize it won’t be like this forever
You can always keep moving to smaller instances.
This is a great point. I have another account on a smaller instance, and there I frequently just read everything in the local feed.
Same.
LOve that endless scrolling is an option and not a forced setting.
Enjoy it while you can
The beauty of it is that we can enjoy it forever. If one instance gets too noisy, we can block it.
You don’t have enough subs. Slacker.
/s
After thinking about that it would be cool if that became feature somehow.
Limiting how many posts you can see per community on Lemmy
Being able to switch between seeing all post, a few, or none to help with curbing online addiction
Exactly how I feel!
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.
Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.
Palerider@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Fuck you! No it isn’t you moron.
virku@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wow! I want to upvote, downvote and report you at the same time. Kudos!
In the end all i did was leave this lousy comment
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Moran*
klemptor@startrek.website 10 hours ago
I’ve found more belligerent comments have started to crop up, and sure enough, most of the time the account is about 2 weeks old. I really hope lemmy doesn’t change with this latest influx from reddit.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I expect much bigger influxes. From at least a few dozen people with hundreds of accounts. Probably around the time of an election.
OpenStars@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Fwy, some apps allow for automatically applied icons to indicate such. I forget exactly which ones, but I know PieFed's web UI does it. It's very helpful imho.
PieFed also marks people who receive like 10x more downvotes than upvotes. That way you can still choose to read their content, but seeing that, decide how best to respond.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
I got sent gore by a two year old account yesterday
masterspace@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Way more arguments on Lemmy seem to end with the two users stop down voting each other, and then basically concluding ‘that I see your point but still think you’re wrong because youre over emphasizing x or y’.
Way more arguments on Reddit just end with an endless loop of insulting and talking past each other.
I think the effect is probably like 30% selection bias of people coming to Lemmy more intentionally, and 70% lack of bots. Between paid influence campaigns, and Reddit’s own use of bots to juice engagement, my gut feel is that most of those endless arguments are either directly arguments with bots, or indirectly people who have grown so frustrated arguing with bots in other threads that they’re no longer capable of rational discussion.
OpenStars@piefed.social 8 hours ago
The average age of a Redditor started to go down even several years ago, long before Rexodus, in large part as the platform changed things to encourage speaking even without bothering to read anything at all.
Thus I decided to leave Reddit regardless, and only fortuitously decided to come here. Some things simply are not worth the trouble.
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Yeah, I agree.
On reddit it seems the remaining human commentators are those who have taken over the mannerisms of the bots and adjusted to talking to the bots.
And you always get stuck in these endless loops of hostile disagreement.
That’s just not how normal humans argue. Even on the internet.
Normal humans either agree to disagree or just give up. In both cases ending the conversation after all useful things have been said.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Eat shit and die, cunt
myrak@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I hope the openness of the platform will continue to allow us to keep it that way as things grow.
sbf@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Intellectual? Perhaps. Civil? Not always…