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I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by H2207@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Maybe it's just because there's less content on Lemmy as of right now, but I remember doomscrolling Reddit, but now I only briefly open Lemmy once or twice a day.

Could this be an example of the affects of addictive social media?

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Oddly enough, people are pretty adamant about demanding that we add a lot of addictive features into lemmy, just because they exist on reddit and on other big tech platforms. I usually push back, but I'm always downvoted to oblivion. I conciously wanted to avoid putting these addictive, psychologically harmful things into lemmy-ui.

So its great to see posts like this one. Social media doesn't have to be a negative experience, or addictive. The time we spend here should be short, and positive.

[-] Mangoguana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yeah social media should be more functional and easily put away when not needed. I love the fact that I just don't get attention consuming notifications. I love the fact that there isn't an algorithm that promotes the most inflammatory point of view for "eNgAgEmEnT".

I just don't feel like a product here, it feels real compared to any platform.

[-] inasaba@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm really thankful for it, so thank you for pushing back. One of the biggest reasons I chose Lemmy over Kbin was the lack of overall user score. I'm fine with posts and comments having a score — it sort of helps one determine what is and isn't good content for a community, or what might not be good advice — but summing those up on your user profile only leads to weird score measuring contests and a sort of "number go up" addictive cycle. Thank you also for giving us the ability to hide scores if we don't want to see them.

[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Short positive social media is my dream

[-] GreenCrush@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What would be an example of an addictive feature that could be added to Lemmy?

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Infinite scrolling, karma, targeted content.

[-] GreenCrush@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Karma we can definitely do without. I don't know of anyone who actually took it seriously anyway.

[-] Hyphlosion@donphan.social 1 points 1 year ago

Bots took Reddit karma very seriously.

[-] Pechente@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

The thing with mostodon and lemmy is that the feed is not algorithmicly tailored to you with the goal to get you to spend as much time as possible. That’s why these experiences are usually more relaxed and fulfilling than what the big players offer.

[-] Beardliest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And that’s why I’m never going back. I absolutely love it here. I scroll my feed for a few minutes here and there, drop a comment or two, and I’m done. No feeling of missing something cool. I’ve probably seen it and I’m good.

[-] terminhell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lemme isn't using some algorithm designed by an entire phycological department to be as addictive as possible for engagement numbers.

[-] dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I have seen the same behaviour in myself. Reddit was the only social media I used and when they pulled the plug on third-party apps, I took it as a goodbye.

I see myself sometimes opening my phone to "do something" but I have almost no apps to waste time on. I've reused that time to do better things, which feels nice. I read a little more here and there, I learn stuff of wikipedia when I'm on my phone, or I get up and do something else. It's been great for me, even though I'm kind of sad to see it go. Lemmy is a great community, though I'll try not to start using it so much, just for my own sake and not on the fault of the platform itself.

[-] Woodyboye@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, but as of now just need to find things to fill that gap. Started reading a little more this morning so hopefully that will help with that

[-] AttackBunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was already learning Spanish, but not having Reddit has upped how much time I’m spending learning. So yay I suppose. Plus, less doom scrolling is probably healthier.

[-] xpinchx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same, I had a birthday recently and my wife got me a kindle. I'm not great at reading and often have to look up words as I go, but that's easy. I just finished The Name of the Wind and am on to the second book. I highly recommend it as it was easy to read and very engrossing.

I read every chance I get now.

[-] frnco@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Same. I find myself scrolling through my apps and can’t decide what to do. Got me to open Duolingo which I had forgotten was installed. At least doing something productive now.

[-] penguin@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

I've found myself taking my Steam Deck into the washroom instead of using reddit in there. Play a game for 10 minutes instead of doom scrolling.

[-] 5h17h34d@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm fed up with logging in every day. Why can't I stay logged in for some reasonable time like other apps?

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I'm using the web interface on Firefox and have only ever logged in once so far, when I made my account. It must be something on your end, do you maybe automatically clear cookies or sth?

[-] 5h17h34d@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

On the Desktop I can login fine on Chrome, not at all on Firefox.

On android I'd rather use the web browser. So many apps I don't trust. Between Spoutible, Mastadon, and Lemmy It's simpler to use the same browser for all.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

This isn't an issue on Jerboa

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