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?
Idk about everyone else, but I sort by new on Lemmy and “all” WAY more than I ever would on reddit. Even sorting by new or all on reddit it just shuffles around the same 100 posts they want you to see. Here people post about all kinds of stuff!
I feel like sorting by new on reddit for many years has just kinda been a cesspool. Like 1 post worth seeing per page lol
It’s probably not going to last.
Because of the slow nature of content I ended up being subscribed to more communities than I would have back at Reddit. My feed is still 99% 196 just like in Reddit, but instead of needing to pop into r/all or r/popular every few hours, the New Comments sort ends up “sprinkling” interesting stuff from other communities into my feed.
I know I’m late to the party but is there any chance you can explain 196 to me?
There once was a r/195 which I’m late to the party for but was apparently just a dumping ground of memes by a bunch of students who all lived in dorm room 195 (or something along those lines) so when it shut down people who wanted to keep something like that going decided to set up r/196
The only rule (technically there were a few more such as no NFT avatars, or that one specific person could post porn if censored correctly) was that you had to post something before you left if you opened the sub. So it became a weird meme dumping ground, and because the mods weren’t assholes it ended up being a pretty nice space for left leaning folk and gender minorities.
No clue why posts are just titled “rule”. I assume it started out as people simply not having a title in mind when posting, and then just kinda stuck.
Maybe because the rule is you have to post something before you close it? I dunno. Thanks for the explanation. There’s some wild stuff in there.
No. I really hope a few million users move over to lemmy and make it a bigger platform. I want to see more diverse content more frequently. I don’t need infinite content like on Reddit but I don’t want to see the same posts days in a row.
There’s a decent amount of activity tbf, it’s just that the lemmy algorithm is worse at surfacing it than Reddit was. I recommend sorting by top(hour) or even new(don’t worry, lemmys new feed is a lot better than reddits!)
Same here. More users, more topics and more posts are welcome!
If you ever need to scratch the itch for content, I suggest checking out https://upstract.com/ - you might even find something to contribute. ;)
I definitely find the content to be deeper and more meaningful. I like the slower pace but I find myself excited to see posts with lots of comments.
deeper and more meaningful
Ah yes, like the “how do I not poop for 3 days?” post.
Instant classic
There also seems to be a deeper sense of community, at least in a few instances and communities, than I’ve experienced in a long time, excluding some of the more niche-er subs
I’ve engaged more with posts on Lemmy than all of my years on Reddit due to the deeper sense of community.
It’s really cut down the amount of endless doom scrolling I’d do throughout the day as well
It sort of feels like the old days of reddit. I had forgotten how nice it was.
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I feel that. I’m finding myself gravitate back to going directly to individual blogs. Just in the past couple of weeks, I’ve been introduced to new blogs on these smaller, more slower-paced niche communities. So it feels reminiscent of how I used to use the Internet 10-15 years ago before Reddit and monetization of everything. I had a handful of places I’d rotate through. It was just enough that there was usually something new everyday, but not an infinite sea of content. And I’m finding now that I’m actually reading the links being posted instead of just reading the comments. It kind of makes me think of how people used to watch TV. A show would release one episode a week and you had to wait for next week’s show. And there was a limited number of shows. Now with all the content on all the streaming platforms plus YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc. there’s an endless amount of content to consume and no built-in breaks so you can literally binge non-stop.
With Reddit or other fill-in-the-blank service where your attention is the end goal to sell ads, the incentive is to get you to never pause, never take a break, never leave. It was exhausting. Here, it feels more relaxed.
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I think you need to move to medium-sized communities for a little bit. like /android instead of /myspecificphonemodel, or /electriccars instead of /myspecificelectriccarmodel.
The great thing about small communities is that you only need to convince a handful of people to jump ship to get them started again.
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Yes. Truthfully for the last 2-3 years I have been dismayed with the direction social media in general were going, not only Reddit. Here were the 3 major issues I had: 1- lower quality of content & the volume of bad content drowning out the good, 2- the corruption of the companies themselves, and 3- the toxic social environment with nasty behavior becoming the norm. I think that fragmenting the web into smaller and more distributed communities, with a slower pace, will probably be a good thing at this point in time.
PS I’m happy to admit the web has always had a dark side, but it had gotten noticeably much worse in recent years.
3 is the biggest thing about pivoting more towards Lemmy / traditional forums for me. It’s been really nice feeling like I’m not drowning in a sea of trite idiocy and unempathetic rage every time I open a comment section. It’s genuinely refreshing to feel like I’m actually engaging with normal people again.
Yes, kinda, sorta. It’s like an addict going cold turkey. I feel the urge for a faster paced feed from time to time. It’s unsettling how much I’ve been accustomed to this kind of BS.
Exactly! It’s like I didn’t realize how much I was itching for the next blue link until it wasn’t readily available. It really helped out things in perspective for me.
You can check your favorite subs daily and not be overwhelmed by content. It’s a nice thing
The lack of unwanted rage bait posts and karma farmers has improved my mood by a lot. I gotta be honest though, I’m still scrolling through Apollo and giving myself my last dopamine hits before July 1st. Won’t miss that place
I’m personally opposite. Lack of content and discussion in my opinion. I’m yearning for more. Orders of magnitude more
Yes. There isn’t enough content. There isn’t enough variety.
I definitely see it as a double edge sword. On one hand I don’t mindlessly scroll as much, on the other, the lack of content is just because I’m figuring out the quirks, and I have a feeling finding new and weird communities could be a McGuffin quest.
I’ve been constantly going on https://browse.feddit.de/ to see if there any new communities that I’d like to join. Really do wish it were easier to discover communities but it is what it is
You could try sub.rehab for a list of sub equivalents.
Oh this is nice. This will be helpful.
There’s a few more that I list here.
Nice. Super helpful. Thanks.
I made https://lemmyverse.net for this reason 😊
Not sure if the privacy settings would allow such a thing, but would a recommended feature based on your account be a possibility for the future?
The issue is getting access to your account and figuring out how to “reccomend” communities. The way reddt etc do it is by analyzing other user data, which I don’t have. Perhaps we could manually tag communities somehow. 🤔
Great site but list view for communities looks like this on my phone, the instances list view worked fine though.
Yeah I noticed that, the grid view is better on mobile, that’s for sure. the list view needs a bit of work to make it reactive, I’ll see what I can do.
Oh wow, specially the communities view is gold. Thank you! This will be great to share people also when reddit third party clients disappears.
I love this, thank you!
I’ve become used to the endless stream of content from Reddit, so a part of me says no and the other says yes
Yup, when i mindlessly open lemmy something in my brain doeant jive.
But i really hope i get away from that quick dopamine chase.
