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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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[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 3 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.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 3 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know I'm late to the party but is there any chance you can explain 196 to me?

There once was a r/195 which I'm late to the party for but was apparently just a dumping ground of memes by a bunch of students who all lived in dorm room 195 (or something along those lines) so when it shut down people who wanted to keep something like that going decided to set up r/196

The only rule (technically there were a few more such as no NFT avatars, or that one specific person could post porn if censored correctly) was that you had to post something before you left if you opened the sub. So it became a weird meme dumping ground, and because the mods weren't assholes it ended up being a pretty nice space for left leaning folk and gender minorities.

No clue why posts are just titled "rule". I assume it started out as people simply not having a title in mind when posting, and then just kinda stuck.

It is a blessing for someone like me who had a lot of difficulties to stay away from reddit. Lemmy gives me a slow paced window of reddit, with RSS feeds taking up the rest of the free time. So in the end the time I spend is more focussed on my interests but driven by reputable sites instead of someone in reddit.

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Breaking free of radicalizing algorithms and agenda driven rage farmers will feel weird for a while. There's a process of recovery when healing from any destructive addiction.

[–] SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt 2 points 2 years ago
[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 2 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.

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 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.

[–] Jfqs6m@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] cccc@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think its better for the more mainstream subs, but lavks for more niche subs

[–] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Slower? Have you not seen all the beans? Maybe that’s just my feed.

[–] Jfqs6m@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I had posted this a few days before the reddit API change, it was a lot slower then. I kinda miss it TBH...

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