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Or at least less so than Reddit. It's good, but, I can't put my finger on it. Even when the content is good, the servers are up, and I'm getting notifications responding to comments, it's never come to me doomscrolling for hours.

Edit: Guys, guys, I'm not trying to say Lemmy should be addictive or Reddit is better because it is. The opposite. I thought being addicted to something was always a bad thing? I was just curious as that I rarely ever see the content droughts people talk about, so I can scroll for as long as I want to with no interruptions, but unlike with Reddit, I don't, and I would want to know a reason why. Is it psychological? Something behind the scenes? The type of people here?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too much repeated content on my feed. I like it, but I need to be able to auto hide previously viewed posts for this platform to be the kind of doomscroller reddit was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

also voyager and eternity have this feature afaik

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I feel that I am wasting more time on Lemmy than on Reddit because here the community is more to my liking (foss and linux)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps you require more ragebait?

If so, you're stupid, your thought is stupid and your choice in underwear is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agree'd, people aren't contributing enough so it seems dead after a 30min check per day (might not be a bad thing).

If lemmy is to thrive and survive, post, comment and start discussions. That's what is addictive and provides value.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are algorithms working in the background on Reddit to keep you there. Same with pretty much all “social media”. They aren’t on Lemmy. The point of Reddit is to keep you there, and shove as many ads down your throat as possible. Ads don’t exist here, and no one (as far as i can tell) is making money from you being here.

Yeah, there is less content, but that’s not really the biggest reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are algorithms working in the background on Reddit to keep you there. Same with pretty much all “social media”. They aren’t on Lemmy. The point of Reddit is to keep you there, and shove as many ads down your throat as possible. Ads don’t exist here, and no one (as far as i can tell) is making money from you being here.

I agree with what you're saying about the algorithms sucking you in, but disagree that's the biggest reason. Lemmy just doesn't have a lot of content, browse HOT or go through your subscriptions and you're done pretty quick.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Thunder's latest update added a dismiss read posts feature, it lets you remove read posts on demand as you scroll, "refreshing" the feed with content you haven't seen, but without actually refreshing the page.

Lets you scroll a lot deeper into the feed without it feeling "dead" or "stale".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not supposed to be. It doesn't jam endless recommendations in your feed once you've gotten at the end of the new, fresh content. I feel like it's a feature, not a bug, to have platforms that don't optimise for time spent on them, because they don't need our attention to show us ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no karma system so no people shitposting and reposting as much to pump up their score. Without this kind of gamification there is less noise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Basically, no dark patterns built to keep you scrolling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We're not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn't try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I never realized all this but it’s so true. I browse and comment until I’m caught up, then log off.

Wow