I was also a lurker in "the other place", but convinced myself to participate here since I wanted to help lemmy feel "alive". Now I really like it and comment regularly.

Haha, I love the analogy!

Guess we're in dire need of a "Well shit..." button.

Haha, I also played along until the wordle thing.

Hi, I'm a comment. =)

In grocery stores here they usually line up the dairy products along these "stages". I've got laughted at before when I said "man, I never remember where along the 'milk spectrum' they place the crème fraîche."
Thank you for confirming that the "milk spectrum" is real!

ngl, i kinda like this. Want to revoke access to any of the users but can't trust them to hand back their key(s)? Np, just change their lock.

Good bot

I like to have it set to "all" and "new comments". There is some movement but its slow enough to be usable. Also posts which are very active are more likely to appear there but you still see some newer stuff.

I really hope the "hot" and "active" algorithms will be fixed soon though.

Sure, and nobody would blame them if they simply tried to create a sustainable business with positive cashflow. The type of capitalism that is referenced here is the one where you squeeze every last penny out of the platform and would even sell your users trust, which your long term profit relies upon, if it means higher numbers in your quarterly report.

Capitalism, babyyyyy!!!

5-6 hours seems excessive... If you have other issues that are the root cause, maybe deal with those first, but if it's a self-control issue (which it was for me sometimes) there are great browser plugins to block certain sites after a certain amount of time. I use LeechBlock for firefox and after my "self allotted time" it locks down reddit and lemmy for me so I can't access it any more. There are similar plug ins for other browsers, I can really recommend it!

Ps: But to answer your original question, from an ideological standpoint, definitely stay on lemmy.