I caught myself loads of times scrolling on Reddit while not even paying attention, or while scrolling on Reddit to then close it immediately opening Reddit again to continue scrolling.

It felt just like any other social media app, scrolling mindlessly, for at least a few hours a day. I noticed this has changed since I’ve been using Lemmy, where I might spend 30 minutes a day on. I’m curious if other experience this too! It feels nice to be freed from Reddit.

  • quaddo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yes. Like others have said, the content hasn’t quite caught up in volume or diversity.

    But I think another factor is that when I fire up Lemmy, it feels like r/all in that I’m getting everything. There seem to be quite a number of meme-themed subreddits communities that dominate my All feed. Now that I think about it, I should probably make the effort to block those; I’ve made that effort on kbin.

    In a way, I think it might be nice to have something equivalent to r/popular, fwiw.

    Minor nit: “community” (“magazine” on kbin) doesn’t have the same ‘zing’ as “subreddit”. We need something like “sublemmy” or “sublem”.

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      Root problem Is the name ‘Lemmy’, which is kinda lame-y.

      Also bad is that we’re not called Redditors but … lemmings? Lemurs?

      Almost worth changing the name.