I’ll try to dial back my time on lemmy because I’ve noticed that I spend way, way more time here than I ever did back on reddit
Deleted my reddit account a couple days after discovering Lemmy. I’ve been to their website a couple times since because it often appears in search results and if I don’t see a less shit option I’ll dig through the comments of whatever post my search pulled up, but that’s the extent of my activity there.
I will never make another reddit account. Fuck spez.
Greedy little pig boy
I recently got permanently suspended from Reddit. I still read there, because there’s so much more content than here.
I don’t engage here as much as I did there, because the communities I’m interested in just don’t exist here, or are very quiet.
I’m spending less time on both, because of that.
Subjectively more, but that could also be due to lemmy having much less content than my doomscrolling needs, so I open it every 5-20 mins and check (also Mastodon). And that feels like much more time than one few-hour session on Reddit.
From how often I see your comments, I can certainly tell you’re a regular visitor. :P
Damn I’m not a visitor, I’m the host
I’m far more active on Lemmy, I’d say 10x, than I was on Reddit.
Why is that? I think it’s because I feel like the few communities i’m part of here are places for actually sharing and learning from each other, with the same folks that you know you’ll see again. Not just random spraying of posts and replies everywhere in numbers so huge that everyone kind of disappears in the ether.
i even started to avoid some political posts on reddit before i was summarily suspended permanently, but in any case any comment wouldve gotten drown out by thousands others anyways.
Not really, I stop in and chat a bit on posts I find interesting. On Reddit I doomscrolled.
I’m on lemmy BECAUSE there is less. Trying to become and ostrich.
Lemmy is really growing on me as I can see there’s discussion when it comes to the current events, I like to read real opinions and viewpoints on from others outside of my bubble, reddit and X both are too bot riddled for me to personally for that use. I still do go on reddit often for local content as it’s a better source of upcoming events and whats going on around the city than the actual local news agencies.
Nope. Honestly though Lemmy helped me with my Reddit addiction. Haven’t been on Reddit in years and only occasionally engage with Lemmy during the week. Supplanted both with reading bootleg manga, ha ha ha.
Same here. I was honestly worried when I left Reddit. Which worried me even more. Once I moved to lemmy, I still use it, obviously, but I often go a few days between opening it. I’ve found I take my phone out less when I’m sitting, my overall screen time went down to like an hour and change a day, and I don’t miss it.
Nope. Making Reddit as mildly addictive as it was likely took more than just a generic application of the type.
In that way, Lemmy’s development motivations make this platform (IMO) a lot healthier, because it wasn’t purposefully tweaked into something addictive by a group of sociopaths holding boring dystopia meetings looking to appease the shareholders or the ownership.
As I avoid Reddit like the plague? Yeah.
Yes, I realized there was/is a lot of rage-bait on reddit that kept me typing. Lemmy is more chill, like it’s an actual forum with real people with real engagement.
Like early Reddit, when we migrated from Digg
Some of us skipped Digg and came straight from SomethingAwful.
like it’s an actual forum with real people with real engagement.
Because it’s small.
The only bots are from people hobby botting to learn about. If it grows then we’ll see intentional bots like anywhere else.
Federation gives unique challenges tho. A big open instance will have a huge bot problem because of how many instances could host the bots. A locked down instance won’t see any bots.
Lemmy is 1000x more real than reddit, but I have found it to be very susceptible to echo chambers. I agree with a lot of the echos in the chamber, and yet I find a lot of people taking nuance out of discussions or believing falsehoods from headlines alone. It’s annoying to me, because many if these topics are extreme enough as is, there’s no need to hyperbolize. But there is not a lot in the way of difering opinions (when it comes to big topics)
I think any place with moderation is going to have an echo chamber. And then ironic thing is a place without moderation also leads to an echo chamber, since people who don’t like the vibe leave.
I try to link to articles or cite something when making bigger statements for that reason. But ofc you can’t please everyone.
I spend about as much time as I did on reddit, but it depends on how the content is day to day.
I still read certain things on reddit when search engines take me there, but that’s mainly for niche things that aren’t super popular here. Mainly the Gloryhammer and AllTheMods subs tbh.
Same for me! For niche hobbies, Reddit still has a lot of valuable older information. That might change though.
I only ever lurked on reddit and didn’t spend long when I did - I only started commenting (or rarely posting) because I believe in the fediverse and want to help it succeed. So yeah, way more time spent here and infinitely more engagement.
Less time on Lemmy cause there’s less to see. I spend more time on other websites now, when previously reddit used to take up all of my web browsing time.
What kind of other websites?
Imgur and YouTube mostly. I spend more time on forums too.
I don’t spend any time on this website at all because I have 1 billion dollars.
