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do you also spend a lot less time on Lemmy compared to Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Xeon@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] awderon@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah my browsing time has gone down compared to Reddit. But Lemmy has far less mindless content, if I’m on here I’m more engaged and actively read articles linked or write comments.

[–] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, definitely! I wonder what that is. Because I definitely engage way more with the actual content, reading full articles, actually opening articles…on Reddit, I was so angry with myself because I wouldn’t actually read the shit. Which was very unlike me. Very odd

[–] CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I suppose part of it is that a lot of Reddit content was repetitive, and also, because Lemmy is still much smaller, there are less mindless posts and comments, which make me take contributions more serious and cause me to be less frustrated about scrolling over comments which are only empty noise

[–] Kyoyeou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

For me I'm on the website, and I need to click on "Next Page" which takes a bit of time to load, as well as Basically making everything before disepear and it can be hard to find it again