• MadMaurice
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    1 year ago

    Probably. But it’s not as bad as I was addicted to Reddit. In some sense Lemmy has helped me though to get rid of that addiction.

      • @Revezd
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        51 year ago

        It’s always a good think imho (without further elaborating).

          • @Revezd
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            01 year ago

            Does it really benefit the whole bulk of artists or only the biggest ones?

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              All artists, the smaller ones especially. If you have a purely chronological feed (which is still an algorithm, just a very simple one) then your much more likely to only see the people who post the most and who posts right before you check the feed. With a more targeted algorithm, especially if it’s being tuned to show the best content for you, not what’ll get you addicted, can show you art you’ve missed from the artists that don’t post very often. That tends to be people who don’t do art full time or just take a long time on every piece. Statistics speaking, if you’re following artists like me, who post just a bit more than once a month, you just won’t ever see their work on a chronological timeline.

              Lemmy’s algo doesn’t have the issue since post rank is based on votes & recent comments and you post to a specific community, but Mastodon does. I made the same post announcing a software project I’d spent ~3 days working on at that point. On mastodon, it stayed relavent for a few hours, but on Twitter the same post kept getting likes for ~3 days and it was mostly from people who’d actually be interested in the project, and not necessarily people who follow me.

              • @Revezd
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                21 year ago

                That makes sense to me. Thanks for the explanation!

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              YouTube at least recommends really small content creators. I sometimes get video recommendations with just 1-10 views. With shorts it‘s the same.

  • zkfcfbzr
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    451 year ago

    My addiction is reddit-style content aggregators. My current drug of choice is Lemmy.

    I could very easily quit if I were going back to reddit. And I quit reddit much easier than I thought I would with Lemmy to take its place.

    But I would not easily be able to quit both without replacement.

      • @[email protected]
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        271 year ago

        Lemmy fires just the right synapses… at least for me. Reddit was becomming more like “scroll, scroll scroll, oh here’s something interesting… no, it’s not that interesting… scroll, scroll, scroll”.

      • zkfcfbzr
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        181 year ago

        It’s not as good, but it’s still a lot better than I expected it to be before I joined. Once it has 5-10x the current userbase I think it’ll be just as good.

        One of my favorite things on reddit was being able to click on an interesting post, then just read dozens and dozens of other peoples’ comments. I find that like 70% of the posts I find interesting here have like 0-3 comments.

        There are some growing pains too - for example, I wrote this reply up, then upvoted you, and upvoting you deleted my message so I had to retype it.

  • @Wooly
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    281 year ago

    I’m more addicted to my phone, it’s just lemmy is what’s easiest to continuously scroll through at this point.

  • @zombie_kong
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    251 year ago

    Nope. I can stop whenever I like.

    Fully in control.

    Nothing to see here.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Yeah, I do New all the time, don’t know why people don’t recommend that option more often 🤷.

      • radix
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        21 year ago

        Personally I use Hot rather than New because of the sheer volume of posts that exist. It’s kind of a disincentive to keep scrolling if the content gets generally less interesting and less commented on as you scroll.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          I actually kinda like being the first to comment on a post… it raises post and view count and people that have Hot or Active selected in their feed, will most probably get that post in there if enough people comment.

          • radix
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            11 year ago

            That’s a good point. I guess it’s a leftover from Reddit. I do comment more often now.

            Still, I’m more okay with missing out on bottom-of-feed Hot posts than bottom-of-feed New posts.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Yeah, on Reddit, comments got kinda lost in the noise… that’s why I always chose New, even on Reddit. What’s the point of commenting if no one actually reads your comment 🤷.

  • @emptyother
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    131 year ago

    I dont think I’m addicted yet, but I’m certainly been checking Lemmy more often than I used to check Reddit. Also I’m active on Mastodon while I barely used to touch Twitter. It’s because its something new and fresh and active. I’ll probably tire of it soon.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Fuck me sideways I had no idea I actually liked microblogging until I got on Mastodon. I always thought “Twitter just wasn’t my kind of site” but I really really enjoy Mastodon

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I’ll probably tire of it soon.

      Yeah, this is something that ticks people off for some reason… like they expect you to be married to the social network or something. It’s not interesting for me any more, I don’t visit it, get over it.

  • kratoz29
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    101 year ago

    Yes, so much that my only usable app for now is Lemmy Connect because it handles read post better than others, and I have read all my feed already.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    I have not visited Reddit for couple of weeks and I do visit Lemmy multiple times a day. So, yes? 😅

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    No. It still doesn’t have all the communities and engagement that Reddit has. I used ReVanced on my app to keep using Reddit. But I am on it less as I try to spend my time on Lemmy first and only after then fall back to Reddit.