Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever

It’s true for more popular sub forums but it sucks for hobbies and more niche topics.

Comment quality is also very well balanced...

I'm just happy that I dont have to scroll through dozens of puns before I get to the first coherent post.

Just be aware that there are many haters here too. A few days ago I posted a positive message about the EU and.... oh my God... what a wave of negativity and hate I get. It was just like we - in the EU - are now living under the authoritarian regime of the EU. My reaction was.... I'm out of here, so I'm not in that community anymore. I hoped that Lemmy was a more "positive" community, but that seems to be a naive world view. There will always be haters and they are everywhere.

I'm also enjoying participating in forums I would never touch in any other medium. I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.

I love this too. I get bored after a while on Lemmy which..is a really good thing. Get some news and memes, and get off.

Guess that's enough internet for me today

Even better, I set it to hide read posts. Who knew there was a bottom to the internet?

If you really want to test out what part of Lemmy you're actually interested in...

unclick "Show Scores, Show upvotes, Show Downvotes, and Show Upvote %" in your profile settings for a week and report back on what changed for you.

It is nice to not have to doomscroll too much in Lemmy.

The opportunities for discussions and such is fun, but I miss the memes from Reddit. Lemmy is almost painfully unfunny.

I never though of it like this. But I like thinking of it this way. I am excited to watch lemmy grow though. I have faith that it will go and become a lot more popular. At that time, it will be nice to have more niche communities that are active.

it is nice having Enough content

Same, I much prefer paged scrolling as well, its easier to control or measure how much you scroll.

While do find myself using Lemmy a little too much, because of the lack of time-wasting and dopamime-hitting algorithms, I find less incentive to spend more time on Lemmy and other Fediverse socials.

I take breaks for weeks at a time when I've literally seen everything.

I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.

Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.

Using a combination of top day, mark read on scroll, and hide read, I regularly reach the end of the internet, and am glad.

Yeah, I just sort by new. I see everything posted in my subscriptions, and can just be done for a while. It's great. And early comments get more upvotes, heh.

I mute a ton of communities, and I really like quickly getting to the "end" of All. Then I've blocked some other dopamine sites, so I get bored and go play outside 🤣

You can also really feel that the algorithm doesn't just blindly promote click/rage bait the way that reddit's does.

It still gets promoted some times, but the front page isn't constantly filled with it like Reddit's is,.

Yes but no but.

On a busy day when I only have a limited time to browse and I don't want to get trapped in the infinite "just one more page bro" cycle? Yeah Lemmy is good for that. But if I need something to pass the time for more than an hour or so (transit layover, extremely delayed appointment, sick day at home, etc) Lemmy has neither the constant influx of new content nor the archive of old content to allow for hours of distracting rabbit holes to explore.

That's the beauty of having a platform where your engagement does not matter because there are no advertisers to woo.

On the one hand, this could dishearten moderators and admins if there are fewer engagements and traffic in the community.

I like that on Lemmy you can comment on a 20+ hour old thread from the “front page” and still have a good chance at responses or interaction from other users.

Any subreddit that regularly hits the front page of Reddit requires that users comment in the first hour or two of the post being made, or latch onto some chain from the top existing comments, or else your comment is basically just thrown into the void. It’s even worse now that Reddit has started showing day or week old posts on the front page, like why bother commenting on those posts when absolutely no one will see it…

Yup, and then if you do endlessly scroll all you get to see either very wild takes, porn, and/or extremely niche start up communities, depending on your level of federation.

It also reminds me to post something back somewhere.

It’s like a better version of Reddit in 2025, but what I really want is Ye Olde Reddit of 2010. I keep seeing comments about how Reddit turned to shit with the API changes, but IMO it’s been garbage for more than a decade. I haven’t been on Lemmy for long but so far I’ve mostly seen the same posts as on Reddit with mostly the same types of comment, just at smaller scale.

I realize it won’t be like this forever

You can always keep moving to smaller instances.

Enjoy it while you can

You don't have enough subs. Slacker.

/s

Exactly how I feel!

After thinking about that it would be cool if that became feature somehow.

Limiting how many posts you can see per community on Lemmy

Being able to switch between seeing all post, a few, or none to help with curbing online addiction

Same.

LOve that endless scrolling is an option and not a forced setting.