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I love how thoughtful everything feels on lemmy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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people posting here are going out of their way to post -- and it feels like every thought has more weight or sanctity or meaning when it's being posted here, at the dawn of a new era and the fall of an old.

i'm spending more time actually reading and engaging with every comment, parsing the details and thinking about it, conceptually. versus just looking at garbage all day, garbage with a little bit of fentanyl in to keep you hooked

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[-] penguin_ex_machina@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I've felt this so hard the past few days. I would often post on Reddit and never get noticed or find myself just wading through a sea of garbage. Here, it's a lot less noisy but the interactions I do have are noticeably more genuine and that feels great.

[-] Scaldart@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

I didn't notice it until recently, but I whole-heartedly believe that Reddit was bad for my health.

[-] penguin_ex_machina@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

100% this. I ended every day doomscrolling until I got bored or the feed accidentally refreshed and sent me back to the top. Now I'm starting to see how bad that was for me.

[-] tattooed_dude@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Doomscroller here chiming in to say I couldn’t agree more.

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I have a new addiction now. 🤣

[-] Rashnet@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I haven't been on reddit since Sunday and today I took a peek at the front page and was instantly angry and defensive. I am glad to have a do over here. I too doom scrolled all day looking for things that confirm my bias and make me agitated. It will take some time for me to get past that mentality.

[-] Spyro@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

The past few days have shown me how absolutely addicted I am to reddit. It was actually scary being able to physically feel my brain screaming for some easy hits of dopamine.

Honestly the 48 hour blackout was probably one of the best things to happen to my mental health in a very long time.