In the early 2000s there were a couple of different forums I liked, so once a day Iβd walk over to the library to use the internet and catch up. Iβve missed having that kind of healthy relationship with the internet, haha.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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You can check your favorite subs daily and not be overwhelmed by content. It's a nice thing
Because of the slow nature of content I ended up being subscribed to more communities than I would have back at Reddit. My feed is still 99% 196 just like in Reddit, but instead of needing to pop into r/all or r/popular every few hours, the New Comments sort ends up "sprinkling" interesting stuff from other communities into my feed.
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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.
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.
I do appreciate it but I also notice that a lot of content is not getting moderated resulting in low quality posts/spam.
Yeah, that happens. As more mod tools come out I'm sure that will get better with time.
It's ok
Sort of yes?
It certainly gives me a lot more time for reading rather than social media which is probably a good thing.
Itβs good because I feel like I can actually participate without getting lost in the shuffle.
Totally relate to that. I love discovering new things and reading many different people's thoughts on a topic, but every platform based around scrolling on a feed is too addictive to me. If I use them too much I can already start to feel some cognitive abilities decline after a few days. The slow pace of lemmy is really nice.
You might also be interested in curating an RSS feed for yourself if you haven't already.