I caught myself loads of times scrolling on Reddit while not even paying attention, or while scrolling on Reddit to then close it immediately opening Reddit again to continue scrolling.
It felt just like any other social media app, scrolling mindlessly, for at least a few hours a day. I noticed this has changed since I’ve been using Lemmy, where I might spend 30 minutes a day on. I’m curious if other experience this too! It feels nice to be freed from Reddit.
For me it is quite the opposite. Using Connect app, and enabling “Hide read posts while scrolling” there is endless fresh content every time I scroll during the day
I’ve doom scrolled on here a few times, but it’s not nearly as bad as I was with reddit.
That said, it’s partially due to less content, and I’ve also made myself pick up a book for the first time in ages after leaving reddit.
Same here. For me I can count how many times I opened Lemmy throughout the day compared to reddit in which sometimes I opened it literally seconds after closing it. Not that I’m complaining nor celebrating it, for me it’s just that.
Nope. I feel like I spend about as much. I comment a lot, though, so the doomscrolling factor is probably less important.
100％. I was so addicted to reddit I would, like you said, open it without even noticing I did it. It was really shocking to me how many hours a day I was pissing away reading the reposts of bots and the thoughts of teen edge lords. The protests came at a great time, havent been back since (my sub is still on private hehe…) anyway, popping in here is fun and everything but I dont think it’ll ever get as bad as it was.
Same. But even before that I was spending a ton of time as a regular user trying to generate activity. I think I’m finally starting to relax a little bit because Lemmy seems to be stabilizing. Growth has slowed but the core users are more active than ever, and people are starting to form sustainable communities. It feels so right to be a part of this.
We appreciate you admins and mods!
Only thing that happened was lemmy replaced Reddit. I lurk more now though.
I used Reddit for mindless nonsense but mostly for finding answers in niche topics. As good as Lemmy seems so far it will take a long time for the user count to be suffient enough to fill the information void. I’ll bet our time spent here will increase as user volumes increase
Nope, the same amount of time
I’d like to to spend the same time on Lemmy, but then I just see the same posts all over again.
Yeah, and it’s a good thing… also, I comment now which I didnt really bother to do on reddit.
Threepwood!
I think I’m still getting used to lemmy and navigating around I think subconsciously I am put off by this… Once I get the hang of it I am sure my habits will go back.
Yes. There’s less content to scroll through here (not a bad thing) so ensures scrolling isn’t a thing anymore. I’ll still visit a certain Reddit sub from time to time but at some point I’ll probably let that go too.
