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.
Not having suggestion algos and customized feeds can sometimes be a good thing.
It’s always a good think imho (without further elaborating).
Lemmy is methodone or saboxin compared to the tainted heroin that is Reddit.
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.
Is the Lemmy high just as good? Or is it the Reddit methadone?
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”.
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.
I’m more addicted to my phone, it’s just lemmy is what’s easiest to continuously scroll through at this point.
No, i can stop whenever i want. Oh no.
Nope. I can stop whenever I like.
Fully in control.
Nothing to see here.
I’m sorting by New and refreshing all day.
Yeah, I do New all the time, don’t know why people don’t recommend that option more often 🤷.
Personally I use Hot rather than New because of the sheer volume of posts that exist. It’s kind of a disincentive to keep scrolling if the content gets generally less interesting and less commented on as you scroll.
I actually kinda like being the first to comment on a post… it raises post and view count and people that have Hot or Active selected in their feed, will most probably get that post in there if enough people comment.
That’s a good point. I guess it’s a leftover from Reddit. I do comment more often now.
Still, I’m more okay with missing out on bottom-of-feed Hot posts than bottom-of-feed New posts.
Yeah, on Reddit, comments got kinda lost in the noise… that’s why I always chose New, even on Reddit. What’s the point of commenting if no one actually reads your comment 🤷.
I dont think I’m addicted yet, but I’m certainly been checking Lemmy more often than I used to check Reddit. Also I’m active on Mastodon while I barely used to touch Twitter. It’s because its something new and fresh and active. I’ll probably tire of it soon.
Fuck me sideways I had no idea I actually liked microblogging until I got on Mastodon. I always thought “Twitter just wasn’t my kind of site” but I really really enjoy Mastodon
I’ll probably tire of it soon.
Yeah, this is something that ticks people off for some reason… like they expect you to be married to the social network or something. It’s not interesting for me any more, I don’t visit it, get over it.
Same.
Yes, so much that my only usable app for now is Lemmy Connect because it handles read post better than others, and I have read all my feed already.
I can stop using Lemmy anytime I want.
Yet, here we are 😅
Not really, I check in from time to time and at work I have a tab open for Lemmy.
I have not visited Reddit for couple of weeks and I do visit Lemmy multiple times a day. So, yes? 😅
Yes
No, but im far more active here than i ever was on reddit. We are creating something great here
Somewhat… like i find ways to escape work and obligations even for a short while, to browse Lemmy 😁. Yeah, that seems like an additction 😂.
I guess?
🤔
Yeah, stats are in that ball park for me as well 😂.
