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Probably. But it’s not as bad as I was addicted to Reddit. In some sense Lemmy has helped me though to get rid of that addiction.

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Not having suggestion algos and customized feeds can sometimes be a good thing.

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5 points

It’s always a good think imho (without further elaborating).

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4 points

As an artist/content creator. No, it’s not always a good thing. :/

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5 points

Lemmy is methodone or saboxin compared to the tainted heroin that is Reddit.

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41 points

My addiction is reddit-style content aggregators. My current drug of choice is Lemmy.

I could very easily quit if I were going back to reddit. And I quit reddit much easier than I thought I would with Lemmy to take its place.

But I would not easily be able to quit both without replacement.

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Is the Lemmy high just as good? Or is it the Reddit methadone?

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26 points

Lemmy fires just the right synapses… at least for me. Reddit was becomming more like “scroll, scroll scroll, oh here’s something interesting… no, it’s not that interesting… scroll, scroll, scroll”.

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18 points

It’s not as good, but it’s still a lot better than I expected it to be before I joined. Once it has 5-10x the current userbase I think it’ll be just as good.

One of my favorite things on reddit was being able to click on an interesting post, then just read dozens and dozens of other peoples’ comments. I find that like 70% of the posts I find interesting here have like 0-3 comments.

There are some growing pains too - for example, I wrote this reply up, then upvoted you, and upvoting you deleted my message so I had to retype it.

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29 points

I’m more addicted to my phone, it’s just lemmy is what’s easiest to continuously scroll through at this point.

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28 points

No, i can stop whenever i want. Oh no.

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Nope. I can stop whenever I like.

Fully in control.

Nothing to see here.

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