I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy

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• Pechente@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The thing with mostodon and lemmy is that the feed is not algorithmicly tailored to you with the goal to get you to spend as much time as possible. That’s why these experiences are usually more relaxed and fulfilling than what the big players offer.

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reddit wasn’t tailored to the user, the user tailored it to themselves (unless they were fool enough to use the official app).

    It really is just that there’s less content here, and the content there is isn’t sorted particularly well via Hot. It’s a WIP

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    • veroxii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How the Best and Hot algorithms work on Reddit is completely up to Reddit. They 100% tailor it to the user.

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    • Boinketh@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well Reddit still gets to decide which posts/subs to show over other ones based on voting and engagement metrics.

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  • killerinstinct101@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is your reddit home feed governed by some algorithm (other than the standard upvotes and downvotes)

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    • Pechente@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not my Apollo feed but I remember people complaining about posts from certain subs they didn’t like in their feed, so I’m guessing the official app does that?

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  • eldavi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i find myself missing 99% of what i used to get out of social media and i’m forcing myself to see that as a good thing so that i can find more productive uses of my time; it’s crazy to learn that all of the content i’m addicted to is completely dominated by reddit and doesn’t exist anywhere else in the entirety of the world wide web.

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  • Sallal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Name of the wind was great. The only reason I didn’t start the second book was the Author’s refusal of releasing the third and “final” book. I prefer cutting things on my terms rather than being forced to. it sounds stupid but at least I feel in control that way lol.

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• dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have seen the same behaviour in myself. Reddit was the only social media I used and when they pulled the plug on third-party apps, I took it as a goodbye.

  I see myself sometimes opening my phone to “do something” but I have almost no apps to waste time on. I’ve reused that time to do better things, which feels nice. I read a little more here and there, I learn stuff of wikipedia when I’m on my phone, or I get up and do something else. It’s been great for me, even though I’m kind of sad to see it go. Lemmy is a great community, though I’ll try not to start using it so much, just for my own sake and not on the fault of the platform itself.

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  • penguin@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve found myself taking my Steam Deck into the washroom instead of using reddit in there. Play a game for 10 minutes instead of doom scrolling.

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• soulifix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like with Lemmy, it’s harkening back to a period of the internet where you can approach it and put it down for later. It’s not yet constructed in a way like all of the other social media platforms, that want to keep you invested, even if you know what to expect. Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter .etc all remind me of the days in the old internet, where you had web portals. These web portals were from MSN, Yahoo and AOL primarily.

  They all had things there, to keep you attracted to them. They had their search engines, they had games, they had news, they had weather and many more things. All to keep you in one place and to keep you from venturing out to other places unless you used their search engines before Google became the juggernaut of that.

  Social Media today, is designed now, to be like them. Except it’s worse because they’ve got algorithms in place that they extract the data from, i.e you, to pitch to you things that you may be particularly interested in just to keep you invested.

  For all of the numbers those social media platforms have, they sure do say a lot of nothing.

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  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Completely agree with the last sentence. For all the hours I’ve spent on shitty social media, I couldn’t remember a single post or comment I read there to save my life.

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  • deranger@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    After decades of platforms trending towards monopolization, bring on the fragmentation.

    The community here is small and I love it. Maybe I don’t spend as many hours on here but I also don’t get pissed because I read an idiotic comment, and I feel like I can post an opinion without getting downvoted to hell.

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• brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t found a way to hide posts I’ve seen yet. So I find myself opening Lemmy, seeing a little new content and then putting it down. There isn’t a constant feed of new content to just consume.

  It’s been nice not to be inundated with a neverending stream of bullshit.

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  • Smartboystupid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some apps do have features like that, I am pretty sure that WefWef (the app I use) added this option recently.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like most of the critical news and politics makes it to the top political communities here, but without the 5000 articles of people rehashing the same stupid story over and over. If I read Lemmy world or beehaw news and politics, I have the gist of what’s going on.

  Everything else is the meme trend of the week here. Not pooping, beans, vintage memes, Ohio, etc.

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• MusketeerX@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • anolemmi@lemmi.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • zucky@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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  • sj_zero ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Less doom scrolling, more engagement in stuff you're interested in.
  • snor10@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• PaperTowel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel that, my friends asked me how Lemmy is and I told them it’s great, but I find that I spend a lot less time because it’s harder to find new content.

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• Krinkles@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t matter what domain you’re on, break the habit of being stuck on these sites. The internet is regurgitation of content, and echo chambers that have extreme point of views that shouldn’t be celebrated

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• Resol@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have the same effects. But this is probably the best thing to ever happen to me.

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• luis123456@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do, too. Prefer the Fediverse to anything else.

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• drasticpotatoes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting. I’ve been spending more time on Lemmy since the Reddit flood. I ever stopped being a lurker.

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  • luis123456@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same here.

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• G0FuckThyself@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same, I used to scroll reddit a lot, but since I switched to lemmy my lemmy usage is nowhere close to reddit.

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  • zucky@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe because lack of content? I open Lemmy, “oh the top posts are still the same as it was 6 hours ago”, goes back to doing what I was doing. I love it

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• terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemme isn’t using some algorithm designed by an entire phycological department to be as addictive as possible for engagement numbers.

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• ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m the opposite. I find myself on Lemmy off and on all day. I use it way more than I have been using Reddit in the past few years

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  • Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree. Now that I know I’m not contributing to a corporations ad revenue I post a lot more. I was reluctant to use Reddit for the longest time and then started 4 months ago. It was an easy thing to give up.

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• renrenPDX@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am finding more time IRL now that I’ve converted to Lemmy. I’m learning a new language as well as learning chess. I think it’s because much of the new posts aren’t showing up in ALL/Subscribed so I end up consuming much of it faster than Reddit.

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  • simplify@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks Reddit for giving me the push I needed to run the fuck away!

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• Hiru@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To me there’s less engagement right now in Lemmy than there it was in Reddit, partially because there is less content, but hopefully this will change in the near future

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• 5h17h34d@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m fed up with logging in every day. Why can’t I stay logged in for some reasonable time like other apps?

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  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Use a different app. I’ve never had this issue

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  • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m using the web interface on Firefox and have only ever logged in once so far, when I made my account. It must be something on your end, do you maybe automatically clear cookies or sth?

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  • TwoCubed@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Use Voyager (formerly known as wefwef). It’s great!

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m trying this Alexandrite app. It’s quite good on desktop.

    alexandrite.app

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  • Kubongi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using liftoff, logged in once. No issues alike.

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  • spicycape@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had this issue on jerboa, seems fine for the last week since I switched to connect

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• slclemming@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ive experienced the same. The communities I enjoy are still too small on Lemmy (like 14 users/month) and the quality of content on local abd all is pretty hit or miss - so I just spend less time looking at it

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, I’m spending way more time here than on reddit. Ouch.

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• Gamey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can look up dark patterns and compare the two based on that if you want, that would be very interesting!

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• jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I probably spent a bit less time too, but the bigger difference for me is that I’m doomscrolling less but instead I’m commenting more and posting more.

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• familypackguy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure if that is a diss or not

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• Blaze@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same here, indeed it’s for the best

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• ShooBoo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy still has a small user base compared to sites like Reddit. Some of those features came out of managing huge user bases. And naturally when you have a huge userbase, you have people wanting to make money. Some honestly, some not. The site itself sees the potential to make money. Over time good intentions tend to melt away and the demons run amok.

  The trick will be if places like Lemmy and Mastadon and whatever are able to over come this and remain pure.

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• shalva97@lemmy.sdfeu.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still scroll both Reddit and Lemmy 🔥

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  • gamenahd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. Especially for the smaller communities on Reddit

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• Sev@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m the same too, was whipping out reddit on the phone at any chance, or browsing while doing something in discrod with mates. Now it’s Voyager for a quick blast (honestly, I kinda hate the feeds, I don’t have a comfy one yet, understand they’re reworking it soon-ish) and for a good read, I’m back on friggin…SomethingAwful and reading some legendary threads from past and present, it’s like a magical book of schadenfreude. Way better than mindless nothing on Reddit [Apollo].

  Thanks Spez!

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• RufusFirefly@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure it’s different for everyone but I was beginning to get burned out on social media and would have spent less time on it regardless.

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• eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The algorithm of reddit would add content to your feed that you don’t subscribe to. Even if you visited the s ti b to block it, it would suggest subs similar to it, because you once visited

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• LemurOnRails@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah Lemmy is a wasteland and nothing to see here. Reddit is so less usable without Boost I rarely use it now either, also some of my communities are still in blackout or even non existing.

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• Katharta@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same, and I don't think that's such a bad thing either.

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