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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You can check your favorite subs daily and not be overwhelmed by content. It's a nice thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes absolutely! I like that I can basically catch up on all Lemmy content in an hour or so. It means I don't spend hours mindlessly scrolling (like I did with reddit) and gives me more time to do something more meaningful

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit used to be slowly to refresh a long time ago, before they tweaked how the front page worked. You would pretty much have the top posts all day, and maybe it would change by the evening.

It was slower paced and fostered more discussion before people would move on, but it wasnt as good at giving the novelty dopamine hit compared to a faster churn.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Because of the slow nature of content I ended up being subscribed to more communities than I would have back at Reddit. My feed is still 99% 196 just like in Reddit, but instead of needing to pop into r/all or r/popular every few hours, the New Comments sort ends up "sprinkling" interesting stuff from other communities into my feed.

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[–] RagingNerdoholic 3 points 2 years ago

To be perfectly honest, no :(

Reddit is just so incredibly massive, there's always something new and interesting to find in /r/all

I hope one day that lemmy can achieve such reach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I Look at all most of the time and return way less frequent. But it scratches my itch for content enough that I stay and enjoy that stay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do appreciate it but I also notice that a lot of content is not getting moderated resulting in low quality posts/spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that happens. As more mod tools come out I'm sure that will get better with time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sort of yes?

It certainly gives me a lot more time for reading rather than social media which is probably a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It’s good because I feel like I can actually participate without getting lost in the shuffle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No, I'm missing out on critical news. If this isn't fixed I'll go back to reddit.

Everyone, do your part to submit one newsworthy event per day.

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