I think it's a combination of less presence/engagement in niche content, sorting methods not quite being there, and not enough discovery without going out of band to find things

One thing I really miss is the science groups, askscience always had great debate that I haven't yet found here

Less niche communities. Don't worry. Doom scrolling is ready to pounce.

There is less content to scroll. That's all.

Reddit uses algorithms to drive engagement. I mean, not old.reddit, but regular reddit. Lemmy doesn't.

Basically, modern Reddit, like other big name social media, is specifically designed to be addictive because it's evil. Lemmy isn't.

It definitely would be to me if there was more diverse content, I usually stop scrolling after seeing the same news articles reposted over and over again, posts that have been in my feed since yesterday, and one too many posts about Linux/FOSS or whatever.

I still love it for what it is, but it can't keep me interested for as long as Reddit did yet.

Endless content can definitely lead to a more addictive platform. Because it's trying to encourage more users to generate their own content, there's certainly less of it, bit definitely less garbage to wade through.

That said, I feel that I'm learning more, sharing more, and interacting with others more.

It's also much nicer than R×ddit, because I've seen so much less: ragebait, fake stories, sensationalism, intentional factual inaccuracies/disinformation, shilling, shitty bots, etc.

I find it just addictive enough. There are definitely lulls in activity, but they're short-lived and I have things I should be doing besides shitposting so it's actually helped me.

The quality, however, is much higher. This can be very subjective, but I do have some real world evidence. The number of times I'd show someone a meme and have them say "Please send that to me" has definitely gone up since I switched to the fediverse.

I felt the same and it's good. I guess that's the upside of no algorithm.

I don't know why but personally lemmy is much more addictive than reddit. The content makes me discover more relevant things and with reddit I felt like been in a loop with always the same content or not relevant content maybe the threads I subscribed to were not the bests.

For me a big thing is that because Lemmy is so small, it's not diverse. It's mostly liberal-to-leftist nerds from America and Western Europe. I roll my eyes and scroll past whenever there's a post about any Asian country because you know it's just gonna be a bunch of foreigners (whose exposure to the country is limited to news headlines) pretending they know anything. And unlike Reddit there are seldom any locals available to set people straight.

And that’s a good thing.

I find it very addictive actually, at least the endless scrolling lasts a bit longer than in Reddit, tho there is still more top stuff on Reddit (bcs there is more content that gets distilled into good content, whereas I feel like on average I see better content on Lemmy).

Tho if I need some technical review of some obscure product, Reddit is still where I look it up.

Eeeh, nope. It's 6:25AM and I already spent 2 hours on Lemmy.

I am kinda glad, and it reminds me of early Digg. When I first used Digg, it didn't tailor the order or content of anything to you, it didn't use an algorithm to keep throwing content at you, changing the order of what you see, and Lemmy reminds me of this.

I'm not here up be addicted or scroll endlessly, if anything, Lemmy feels healthier, like I can walk away and do something else.

It's just a lack of posts and comments. It's not busy enough here to allow for endless scrolling.

With Connect app it's exactly like Reddit. Maybe you need to subscribe to more sublemmy or scroll on global and not local. It's literally the same as Reddit minus the amount of reposts, astroturfing and a little less negative. Maybe you miss that?

I can't meet ya on that brother, I don't comment very often, but I feel like I'm terminally on here. I do wish more non-tech related stuff popped up in my feed, but that's the flavor of Lemmy for now I guess. All in all, I like it here

It wasn't until I started using sync, and my scrolling time skyrocketed.

Yes, i feel the same and I love it.

the fediverse definitely is not as addicting as reddit and i stopped doing reddit so now it feels like my mental state is improving because of it.

Cut out Reddit completely if you haven’t already, that helps a lot.

Reddit is so much bigger, but if you remove that competition to cure the same “itch”… you’ll be here more.