this is an excellent point. perhaps the slowness of the content here is helping those of us who've been on reddit forever and are used to just doom scrolling through endless content.

i spend less time here but I feel I get more direct 'value' when I do. it's more small business feel than condy nast breathing margins down the user community's throats(pre and post gold eras)

I quit the R word cold turkey re: API and now toggle between this and kbin but lemmy with eternity app has been the best baconreader withdrawal breaker for me.

to the fediverse and beyond!

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep! Great points!

Another big point is that it's a rejection of the profit motive, ie there's not even a "small business" feeling like you say for me, but a far more genuine feeling. Nobody has tried to sell me anything here yet.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

you're right, but I have seen some of the hustles from outside setting up shop here.

if the audience becomes large enough, there will be marketing.

unfortunately inevitable

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

So true, lemmy provides me with just enough stuff to feel like I saw enough memes, got some news, etc. but then I can just put it down and do other stuff. My interneting / doomscrolling is waaay lower than it was before.