Asklemmy

If you ever need to scratch the itch for content, I suggest checking out https://upstract.com/ - you might even find something to contribute. ;)

I do!

Reddit used to be slowly to refresh a long time ago, before they tweaked how the front page worked. You would pretty much have the top posts all day, and maybe it would change by the evening.

It was slower paced and fostered more discussion before people would move on, but it wasnt as good at giving the novelty dopamine hit compared to a faster churn.

I feel like the Fedverse has the same problem that IRC has. There's (by design) no easy way to discover communities outside of your instance. You can search, and to an extent get relevant results, but there's no cross-instance (and cross- service) /r/all equivalent to help new users find communities they're interested in. Seems like if that piece could be figured out, the entire thing would be in a better place. You might end up with the endless scrolling issue again, but with enough visibly into communities, you might just be able to keep focused only on the ones you're truly interested in

In the early 2000s there were a couple of different forums I liked, so once a day I’d walk over to the library to use the internet and catch up. I’ve missed having that kind of healthy relationship with the internet, haha.

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.

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

I find it really annoying actually. I open the app and see a bunch of posts 24+ hours old that I've already read or don't care to read and they don't automatically hide when I vote on them

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.

Yes absolutely! I like that I can basically catch up on all Lemmy content in an hour or so. It means I don't spend hours mindlessly scrolling (like I did with reddit) and gives me more time to do something more meaningful

My Reddit experience over the past few years has been primarily focused on smaller communities, so I’m finding Lemmy somewhat similar. But I am definitely enjoying being more active and engaged on here (as I slowly overwrite and delete all my old comments on Reddit).

I do appreciate it but I also notice that a lot of content is not getting moderated resulting in low quality posts/spam.

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.

It's ok