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Anyone else feel that Lemmy just isn't addictive? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Morhamms357@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Or at least less so than Reddit. It's good, but, I can't put my finger on it. Even when the content is good, the servers are up, and I'm getting notifications responding to comments, it's never come to me doomscrolling for hours.

Edit: Guys, guys, I'm not trying to say Lemmy should be addictive or Reddit is better because it is. The opposite. I thought being addicted to something was always a bad thing? I was just curious as that I rarely ever see the content droughts people talk about, so I can scroll for as long as I want to with no interruptions, but unlike with Reddit, I don't, and I would want to know a reason why. Is it psychological? Something behind the scenes? The type of people here?

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[–] deadboy@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Because it’s kinda dead… I won’t go back to Reddit but Lemmy doesn’t scratch the same itch Reddit did. This is my first comment on Lemmy by the way.

[–] Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

That's legit! Glad to have witnessed your first comment!

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If not for the fact that the ttrpg community was so important to me on Reddit, I'd probably not have migrated over, as addicted as I was to the generic /all content on Reddit, I'm glad to be rid of it.

But lemmy is yet to be able to sustain the equivalent community, I want to have access to that infinite pool of topical conversation that I can't find anywhere, I won't go back to Reddit but it's just getting smaller here on Lemmy.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Takes a deadboy to know a deadplatform, I guess.

[–] suenoromis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

16 billion years of evolution and still nobody asked if it's your first comment on lemmy. Joking obviously, welcome to lemmy!

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 3 points 1 year ago

"kinda dead" is the last way I'd describe it. Dead like i95 compared to LA? I guess..