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I only ever lurked on reddit and didn’t spend long when I did - I only started commenting (or rarely posting) because I believe in the fediverse and want to help it succeed. So yeah, way more time spent here and infinitely more engagement.

Subjectively more, but that could also be due to lemmy having much less content than my doomscrolling needs, so I open it every 5-20 mins and check (also Mastodon). And that feels like much more time than one few-hour session on Reddit.

I spend more time on Lemmy, by far.
The only two subs on Reddit I still visit somewhat frequently for local news are enshittifying fast. The jokes were stale 10 years ago, now they've gone almost fully decomposed. Also, I recently encountered a thread that seemed to be 90% bot traffic, with uncannily mismatched questions and answers.
Not to mention every thread everywhere on Reddit sooner or later will mention Trump, Musk, or American politics and culture in general, making me lose all interest.

I'm far more active on Lemmy, I'd say 10x, than I was on Reddit.

Why is that? I think it's because I feel like the few communities i'm part of here are places for actually sharing and learning from each other, with the same folks that you know you'll see again. Not just random spraying of posts and replies everywhere in numbers so huge that everyone kind of disappears in the ether.

Yes, because I was primarily a lurker while I was on Reddit... Lurked on Lemmy for a year too but not anymore, so I spend more time on here

I use both, but I use stealth for reddit so I'm not logged in. But, I can actually comment on lemmy with third party apps.

quite less actually, since theres less content, plus i blocked alot of people lemmy for obvious trolling, tanking, which lemmy has very little users already. so i just wait til later in the night to acess lemmy. on reddit i was on it every chance i could get.

I recently got permanently suspended from Reddit. I still read there, because there's so much more content than here.

I don't engage here as much as I did there, because the communities I'm interested in just don't exist here, or are very quiet.

I'm spending less time on both, because of that.

I scroll until I see the same posts on other instances, so no. Quite a bit less. Scrolling too deep, no matter the sort method, eventually shows me the same 75-150 cross posts.

Nope! Lemmy lacks the dark patterns that kept me scrolling reddit far longer than I meant to.

I spend a little less on average due to the slower flow of content.

But I spend more time writing somewhat in depth comments and actually interacting with lemmy, I'd wager. Reddit was high volume but outside of my niche mechanics subreddits I wouldn't comment much more than memes and one liners.

Way less, because there isn't nearly the amount of content here.

Yup. Mostly because reddit was mostly about mmos for me and then pathfinder but im on the fediverse more generally.

I don't comment or vote on reddit anymore. I use them both a similar amount I'd think. If I ever have to do research into a topic though the answer is almost always on reddit.

I probably spend about the same amount of time here as I did on Reddit.

I only ever used Reddit via web, but on Lemmy I have Mlem, which has increased my mobile use a ton

About the same for me. Can't possibly use it more than 24/7 without doing Superman levels of physics fuckery to add more days to the week. 🤷‍♂️

I spend about as much time as I did on reddit, but it depends on how the content is day to day.

I still read certain things on reddit when search engines take me there, but that's mainly for niche things that aren't super popular here. Mainly the Gloryhammer and AllTheMods subs tbh.

As I avoid Reddit like the plague? Yeah.

I don't spend any time on this website at all because I have 1 billion dollars.

No, but that's because I add a lot of friction so I don't spend much time on social media. So I only access Lemmy by website from my phone. It's pretty inconvenient, just the way I want it.