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.
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How come we don't have the option to have a viewing of 100 or 200 posts at a time or scroll thru per page? | Spyke
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What does that have to do with anything? Besides it gives a hundred of stuff I did not sign up for,
What? It's just a front-end for Lemmy. It has infinite scroll built-in, which seems to solve what you're looking for.
But, but...Infinite > "hundred of stuff"
https://photon.lemmy.world/
You can do that if you use pretty much any app client and not the webpage.
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.