As someone who only uses social media in spurts, Lemmy/Mastodon are way better than centralized social media, exactly because they don’t rope you in as much. The centralized services can have me binge for hours of useless stuff because it’s slightly engaging. The feedback loop here is much more simple: if I don’t see anything interesting, I just leave.
On top of that, the posts you see here are usually higher quality (because of the gatekeeping of thr platform). I would easily take decentralized socal media over anything else.
As someone who only uses social media in spurts, Lemmy/Mastodon are way better than centralized social media, exactly because they don’t rope you in as much. The centralized services can have me binge for hours of useless stuff because it’s slightly engaging. The feedback loop here is much more simple: if I don’t see anything interesting, I just leave.
On top of that, the posts you see here are usually higher quality (because of the gatekeeping of thr platform). I would easily take decentralized socal media over anything else.