Because having to go to the next page every few posts is a ‘stopping cue’. As I understand it, lemmy tries to avoid design patterns that lead to doom scrolling and addictive behaviour; so having a shorter post count per page let’s you stop after a few minutes instead of wasting an hour without noticing.
It doesnt stop you from doom scrolling if you want, also there are enough clients who show more results at a time. Lemmy doesnt enforce this, so it’s not really patronising imo. It’s just the default behaviour which you can choose to ignore if you want to.
I do 3/4 pages at most having to click next.
Hardly doom scrolling.
I can live with it, and not complaining personally even if I would rather see it changed because It’s annoying and doesn’t prevent anything IMO.
Because having to go to the next page every few posts is a ‘stopping cue’. As I understand it, lemmy tries to avoid design patterns that lead to doom scrolling and addictive behaviour; so having a shorter post count per page let’s you stop after a few minutes instead of wasting an hour without noticing.
I get the good intention but I feel it’s a bit patronizing.
It doesnt stop you from doom scrolling if you want, also there are enough clients who show more results at a time. Lemmy doesnt enforce this, so it’s not really patronising imo. It’s just the default behaviour which you can choose to ignore if you want to.
I do 3/4 pages at most having to click next.
Hardly doom scrolling.
I can live with it, and not complaining personally even if I would rather see it changed because It’s annoying and doesn’t prevent anything IMO.