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submitted 1 year ago by Jfqs6m@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

The thing with reddit is you would scroll and scroll and not find anything interesting, just little blips of dopamine in sea of inane content. I don't like everything posted on lemmy but I find it far higher quality overall.

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

Man I don't know, I loved my homepage. Just so much shared passion for my hobbies and everyone was so positive and happy.

I might just have to stay on Reddit, the equivalent communitues are absolutely dead here.

Fully agree with r/popular though

[-] Botree@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tthe sea of most upvoted content in r/all always come from the same handful of subs anyway. I don't miss that one bit at all, but I do worry about my Google results showing empty Reddit links when I'm looking for reviews and answers about some niche products. Reddit is seriously the only place I trust in finding genuine reviews.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

But you also can't just scroll endlessly through unknown stuff. There are thousands of rich, but extremely niche subs. There's one for cultivating worms!

On Reddit, you could just scroll through /all and get bombarded with stuff you would never even think about looking for. That's (at least currently) not possible here.

[-] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True but you don't really mindlessly scroll through those communities, you mostly go on r/all or other popular communities for that. I used to watch a ton of content on r/videos but then some days I would scroll through the front page and just not find anything relatable to me. I joined the site pretty early, like back when it was mostly tech people. So to me the site got worse content wise but if that was the worst of it I could of accepted just hanging out in niche subs.

I just visited r/all and mostly just found American politics and low effort content. It's just not for me personally.

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

Eh, whenever I looked at /popular or /all it seemed to be full of angry things like r/mildlyinfuriating or r/trashy and other stuff like politics which was just angry divisive stuff. I like the more chill and tech-focused things here.

[-] Bongles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You kind of can, sort by all, then top day or top week. It won't be LITERALLY everything but it's something.

[-] scubbo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you joking? It's always asklemmy, memes, announcements, programmerhumour, and maybe one or two others for me.

Edit: just checked again, it's:

An asklemmy from 2 days ago A meme from 18 hours ago A meme from 14 hours ago A "Reddit" post from 2 days ago

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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