Things aren't meant to be understood in a matter of seconds. I'm not by any means a tech-savvy person, and it was challenging the first few days to grasp the concept of federation and decentralization. And that's completely fine. Explaining things to people as if they were five year olds is demeaning to them. We as humanity are meant to evolve and not regress.
Conversation in that respect is indeed important, yet the last week has consisted of people conversing about Lemmy's structure so there isn't any lack of communication.
Five posts a day isn't bad as you put it. You've been for years overstimulated by Reddit's abundant content. Many of us have been contributing to lemmy perfectly fine; we see reccurent usernames and profile pictures, we grow compassionate and sincere with each others thanks to this familiarity.
Not everything should keep on mindlessly growing. Not growing fast enough isn't a problem, yet our modern, capitalist lifestyles make it seem so. That said, I am not against lemmy's ongoing growth per se.
You can still freely access the playlists on https://open.spotify.com/ without an account. And Newpipe has a share function for local playlists. You won't be missing on a lot, just don't fall for the consumerist trap and break the social boundaries.
Edit: You can also access banking services from their respective website. Don't give them power over you by downloading their apps.
Hey I know you have "drama" with them but the PrivacyGuides community is solely centered around the concept of technical privacy, non-contextualized, and is agnostic to every other topuc. They've criticized (if not attacked) many FOSS projects but only from the lens of privacy and so I would understand their sometimes odd behavior. That being said, it would be unbiased of you to accuse them with such conspiracy theories.
On the other hand, I'm perplexed by the fact that they prominently use the spyware crap that Reddit is for communications.
Lemmy will never win such a race to the bottom. It should not.
Perhaps so. We sometimes get blinded by the desire to expand indefinitely, but I'm content with the current activity on lemmy and the slow yet sure growth.
I'm still researching what OS will be ideal for me when in the close future and it seems until now it's ubuntu (or kubuntu), but I will make sure removing snap is the first thing to do.
Fighting in the Age of Loneliness: Supercut edition