I suppose the data farmers administration saw that the chains of addiction wasn’t strong enough to overcome your dislike of the systematic abuse and had to lower the amount of psychological tricks to keep you coming back.

People who uses both reddit and lemmy, mastodon and twitter, facebook and friendica… Unless you’re doing it to harvest content for the fediverse, you might as well just stay on the mainstream platforms.

We’ll never be able to compete with the rest of the world until people leave those platforms and come here. So what do you gain from being on the fediverse? It’s slow, filled with stranger people, doesn’t have all that juice content you crave. It’s just people who are willing to make some sacrifices to work towards a better internet.