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I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy (lemmy.world)
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Maybe it's just because there's less content on Lemmy as of right now, but I remember doomscrolling Reddit, but now I only briefly open Lemmy once or twice a day.

Could this be an example of the affects of addictive social media?

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Infinite scrolling, karma, targeted content.

[–] GreenCrush@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Karma we can definitely do without. I don't know of anyone who actually took it seriously anyway.

[–] Hyphlosion@donphan.social 5 points 1 year ago

Bots took Reddit karma very seriously.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 13 points 1 year ago

The lack of karma is one of the reasons why I prefer lemmy over kbin.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Infinite scrolling is a big one. I need to get out. Help.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate to be the one to do this to you, but old.lemmy.world has infinite scrolling... and is designed to look exactly like old reddit

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it's not a feature that is enabled by default.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

In some sense, Lemmy has targeted content since you can subscribe to communities. It's just less aggressive.