Is anyone else enjoying the slower pace of content?
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?
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.
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.
deeper and more meaningful
Ah yes, like the "how do I not poop for 3 days?" post.
Instant classic
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.
I made https://lemmyverse.net for this reason 😊
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
No, honestly.
I hate that the algorithm is super broken and the only meaningful sort option is "TopDay", which means Lemmy is only good for me to look at once every day at the same time.
Admittedly, I'm so bored, I open Boost for Reddit for more content.
Really hope more content comes to lemmy before third party apps shut down.
Agree. I find the slower pace or lack of an algorithm or whatever it is is leading to me opening lemmy, then kbin around once or twice per day (have 2 accounts and slightly different subs between them which is frustrating in itself).
Then I find myself back on reddit for a bit more scrolling, particularly of the communities I haven't found an alternative for or that are still more active on reddit.
I suspect this will change come July when the Relay app that I use on mobile presumably ceases to function due to the API changes. And my routine will just be kbin/lemmy (hoping for a unified app soon on android). But I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing and might reduce my overall screen time a bit.
Still, I am sad the reddit golden age is effectively over at this point.
And my routine will just be kbin/lemmy (hoping for a unified app soon on android).
Eh - you can join Kbin Magazines with a lemmy account, and Lemmy communities with a Kbin account.
Honestly It's been way worse for me lol, the discussions here are actually meaningful so I can sink way too much time reading threads instead of getting bored after looking at 5 consecutive reposted memes on reddit
Edit: I'm not complaining though, this is definitely better
i hope the bulk of reddit stay where they are now. we dont need those really. also so many instances to read from. we dont seem to be running out of content here any time soon.
The only thing that somewhat bothers me is that, if I Google something 8/10 times I'll have a reddit thread(s) as the top result. I don't feel like giving reddit revenue or clicks though. (I do have adblock on PC and revanced on the reddit app so I try to minimise it).
But instead of using reddit every 1hr or so for 15min, I now use reddit 1 a week maybe for 10mins.
Yeah, it feels like having a much smaller community harkens back to earlier internet days. I remember spending hours on the world of warcraft off topic forum back in the day. Always had great conversations and met some awesome interesting people.
I feel more the lack of my favorite communities that haven't made the jump. Some alternative attempts exist here but are dead. I miss the variety of topics and random discovery as well.
I miss the /r/legaladvice drama and the fun on /r/bestoflegaladvice. That was my go-to "take a break and feel better about my life" sub where I would also learn things occasionally.
Yeah that is always a shame. There are a few communities that I am missing still as well.
Being used to high-traffic subreddits it's definitely a change one needs to adapt to. But I slowly start enjoying it. I just wish there was more non-meta content. Most of it is directly or indirectly related to Lemmy oder the Fediverse in general.
Yeah, I think that will settle with time. It's fresh on everyone's minds right now. As Lemmy continues it will become more of its own 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'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.
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!
I don't know. Feels like a lot of content is mirrored from reddit, just with less engagement. That being said the quality is a lot higher. I also like that there are less comments trying to be comedians with quirky one liners
I think that's also due to there being no visible karma score on your account. I really like that.
Personally no. I used the scrolling to escape stress and just be mindless.
Now I don't do it as much since there isn't as much. When I try, it's not the same since it's slower and just not as much stuff. Also too many posts either about reddit or the fediverse. Honestly I'm tired about (metaish) posts of either of those.
Also the comments were better on Reddit (for me) just mainly because of higher quantity leading to semblance of quality.
I personally hope it goes faster over time with more variety and niches... I miss posting a comment on some places and getting more responses/conversations.
I do! Reddit had turned into a sort of TikTok, mindless scrolling and no time to enjoy actual, original and intelligent content.
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.
No. I feel like I'm stumbling in a desert.
I do, but sometimes I get a feeling that I'm not seeing all the content I should be seeing.
I think that's the feeling that I don't miss. It was like with reddit I could always get that fix. There was plenty of blue links left to satiate my dopamine drip. With Lemmy, the content is a lot less so I don't feel the need to just scroll and scroll. I hope on, get my kick, hit the end for that day, then go back to doing stuff IRL.
I think I find it a bit harder to find exactly what I'm looking for on Lemmy for support and help on various topics. So, it's good and bad. When it becomes easier to search for content Lemmy will definitely improve on that front.
I'm still discovering new instances every day and it has been a much more slow paced browsing experience due to load times and the frequency of new content.
It's definitely a different (but in no way worse) experience to what I'm used to on Reddit, but there's a whole lot less upsetting content (like personal stories of abuse and such) that show up on Lemmy, so I think it's been better for my mental health, even if I feel a bit less connected to the internet than before.
And let's be fair, it's probably for the best.
It's taken a bit to get accustomed to it, but I am finding that I can go longer periods without checking the feed now, so overall it's a positive effect.
The thing with reddit is you would scroll and scroll and not find anything interesting, just little blips of dopamine in sea of inane content. I don't like everything posted on lemmy but I find it far higher quality overall.
Man I don't know, I loved my homepage. Just so much shared passion for my hobbies and everyone was so positive and happy.
I might just have to stay on Reddit, the equivalent communitues are absolutely dead here.
Fully agree with r/popular though
Tthe sea of most upvoted content in r/all always come from the same handful of subs anyway. I don't miss that one bit at all, but I do worry about my Google results showing empty Reddit links when I'm looking for reviews and answers about some niche products. Reddit is seriously the only place I trust in finding genuine reviews.
But you also can't just scroll endlessly through unknown stuff. There are thousands of rich, but extremely niche subs. There's one for cultivating worms!
On Reddit, you could just scroll through /all and get bombarded with stuff you would never even think about looking for. That's (at least currently) not possible here.
True but you don't really mindlessly scroll through those communities, you mostly go on r/all or other popular communities for that. I used to watch a ton of content on r/videos but then some days I would scroll through the front page and just not find anything relatable to me. I joined the site pretty early, like back when it was mostly tech people. So to me the site got worse content wise but if that was the worst of it I could of accepted just hanging out in niche subs.
I just visited r/all and mostly just found American politics and low effort content. It's just not for me personally.
Eh, whenever I looked at /popular or /all it seemed to be full of angry things like r/mildlyinfuriating or r/trashy and other stuff like politics which was just angry divisive stuff. I like the more chill and tech-focused things here.
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.
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.
Honestly: no.
But I must say that I wasnt enjoying reddit in the way I used to anymore. I used to scroll reddit in bed to wind down, mostly text posts (meaningful conversations) or cute animal pictures. Last few years it turned into doomscrolling with way too much video content like tiktok/reels/shorts. So I enjoy the text and image focus on Lemmy which also seems more civil (for now?).
Yeah doomscrolling started to be a real problem for me. I am a new(ish) father, so scrolling through /r/all was starting to give me some serious dread every day. I realized if I just scrolled through my subscribed subs and made sure there was nothing political there, my mental health went waaaaay way up. Like night and day difference, I became a much different (and better) person to be around.
No, it depends on the number of community subscriptions. Still not nearly the firehose that is Telegram.
How does one use Telegram for content? I thought it's just a chatting app.
I don't use it for interpersonal communication at all. I use it to get a particular angle coverage on a particular topic at very high volume since from hundreds of channels. I will likely mostly stop when my interest passes. I also intend to start Lemmy in earnest (gosh, my account will turn 4 tomorrow, with nothing to show for it) now, that we have critical mass and soon lots of tools.
Yeah, content is lacking. I haven't tried telegram but my fear is that it will be the same issues reddit had for me. Too much content so I just sat there all day sucking from the content teat. The conteat if you will.
IMO, the pace feels slower because you aren't seeing any ads, and as a result, scrolling less and receiving more posts you really want to interact with.
Sure, the userbase is still coming together, but that's just a matter of time.
I used 3rd party apps so I didn't see ads to begin with haha. To me it feels slower as both the apps for Lemmy work out their bugs and Lemmy itself works out it's bugs. I keep seeing the same 15 posts repeatedly all the time. That makes it feel slower than it actually is.
Yes and no? I'm definitely checking for content less but also... I have IBS and I spend a ludacris amount of time on the toilet. Sometimes, I just need some content.
can't go back to reading the ingredients on soap bottles
Reddit used to be slowly to refresh a long time ago, before they tweaked how the front page worked. You would pretty much have the top posts all day, and maybe it would change by the evening.
It was slower paced and fostered more discussion before people would move on, but it wasnt as good at giving the novelty dopamine hit compared to a faster churn.
That's what I was saying when I first came to Lemmy. This is how reddit used to be. Before the digg migration it wasn't uncommon to see the same posts on the front page for days at a time because they were so active. It also wasn't uncommon to check it in the morning, and then see mostly the same posts that night. But, like here, usually the comments have developed and you can chat and have friendly banter with people. Reddit at that time I think still had loads more users than Lemmy does now, but the vibe was way more akin to what Lemmy is in its current state.
Yes absolutely! I like that I can basically catch up on all Lemmy content in an hour or so. It means I don't spend hours mindlessly scrolling (like I did with reddit) and gives me more time to do something more meaningful
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 do!
It's probably not going to last.
It is a blessing for someone like me who had a lot of difficulties to stay away from reddit. Lemmy gives me a slow paced window of reddit, with RSS feeds taking up the rest of the free time. So in the end the time I spend is more focussed on my interests but driven by reputable sites instead of someone in reddit.
That's a great way of putting it. Any advice on getting started with RSS feeds? I get how they work but do you have like an RSS feed app that you input the urls into and you get a notification or something?
I use an open source app called feeder. Found it on the f droid store. So far it has worked really well.
Breaking free of radicalizing algorithms and agenda driven rage farmers will feel weird for a while. There's a process of recovery when healing from any destructive addiction.
You can check your favorite subs daily and not be overwhelmed by content. It's a nice thing
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.
In the early 2000s there were a couple of different forums I liked, so once a day I’d walk over to the library to use the internet and catch up. I’ve missed having that kind of healthy relationship with the internet, haha.
Yeah I Look at all most of the time and return way less frequent. But it scratches my itch for content enough that I stay and enjoy that stay.
It's ok
I do appreciate it but I also notice that a lot of content is not getting moderated resulting in low quality posts/spam.
Yeah, that happens. As more mod tools come out I'm sure that will get better with time.
To be perfectly honest, no :(
Reddit is just so incredibly massive, there's always something new and interesting to find in /r/all
I hope one day that lemmy can achieve such reach.
Slower? Have you not seen all the beans? Maybe that’s just my feed.
I'm making a bean filter
I had posted this a few days before the reddit API change, it was a lot slower then. I kinda miss it TBH...
Somewhat, it feels like reddit of yore. Still hoping it gets a little busier, however.
Totally relate to that. I love discovering new things and reading many different people's thoughts on a topic, but every platform based around scrolling on a feed is too addictive to me. If I use them too much I can already start to feel some cognitive abilities decline after a few days. The slow pace of lemmy is really nice.
You might also be interested in curating an RSS feed for yourself if you haven't already.
It’s good because I feel like I can actually participate without getting lost in the shuffle.
Sort of yes?
It certainly gives me a lot more time for reading rather than social media which is probably a good thing.
I find it really annoying actually. I open the app and see a bunch of posts 24+ hours old that I've already read or don't care to read and they don't automatically hide when I vote on them
Ya, I'm like, "am I missing some setting or have I read literally all of lemmy?"