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I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by H2207 to c/showerthoughts
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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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[โ€“] Tangent5280 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes sense; maybe require a wordcount for the base level comments and a much lesser word count requirement for the replies?

[โ€“] rwhitisissle 2 points 1 year ago

That would be reasonable, I think. As you drill down into reply threads comments tend to become more focused on particular topics of conversation, in my experience, and so the size of any given reply might reasonably diminish.