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?

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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.

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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

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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

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It sort of feels like the old days of reddit. I had forgotten how nice it was.

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deeper and more meaningful

Ah yes, like the “how do I not poop for 3 days?” post.

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Instant classic

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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.

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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

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You could try sub.rehab for a list of sub equivalents.

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Oh this is nice. This will be helpful.

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I made https://lemmyverse.net for this reason 😊

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Great site but list view for communities looks like this on my phone, the instances list view worked fine though.

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Oh wow, specially the communities view is gold. Thank you! This will be great to share people also when reddit third party clients disappears.

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I love this, thank you!

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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?

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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!

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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

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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.

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Since the 0.18 update I find that the sorting is working pretty well. I also like that there are now options for Top 1 Hour, Top 6 Hour and Top 12 Hours.

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Jerboa needs this added

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I agree. I have been using the mobile website again because Jerboa doesn’t have these sorting options.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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well they brought it on themselves. mods and users are the ones who made it what it is. Denying users third party apps is a straight spit in the face. best way is just consume their media with null telemetry and 0 shame.

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I work in IT and reddit is (and will probably remain) a huge resource for my job. So I don’t think that’s going anywhere any time soon. Not using them as my main “feed” is a huge boon though.

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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.

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For real? Most of the frontpage of lemmy seems to be filled with memes and news about reddit, both of which I don’t care about. Of course, I had curated my reddit feed over time and seems like it will take time to do the same over here.

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