I caught myself loads of times scrolling on Reddit while not even paying attention, or while scrolling on Reddit to then close it immediately opening Reddit again to continue scrolling.
It felt just like any other social media app, scrolling mindlessly, for at least a few hours a day. I noticed this has changed since I’ve been using Lemmy, where I might spend 30 minutes a day on. I’m curious if other experience this too! It feels nice to be freed from Reddit.
The only reason I use Lemmy less than I used reddit is the lack of content, I was following so many subreddits that every time I sorted by new I could scroll for hours before I hit the posts I’d seen last time I opened the app. Here there just aren’t as many communities and a lot of the ones I’m following are dead so my feed is just the same 20 posts every time I open it.
Yeah my browsing time has gone down compared to Reddit. But Lemmy has far less mindless content, if I’m on here I’m more engaged and actively read articles linked or write comments.
I use it more than reddit at this point!
I’ve doom scrolled on here a few times, but it’s not nearly as bad as I was with reddit.
That said, it’s partially due to less content, and I’ve also made myself pick up a book for the first time in ages after leaving reddit.
