I honestly think I found it on Hacker News and joined out of curiosity. Stayed out of spite when people on the post had their hot takes on the politics.
I hear this type of thinking all the time. “COMMERCIAL PRODUCT has made an unpopular decision now users will flock to LIBRE PRODUCT” It usually only produces a small dent in marketshare that slowly comes back to the commercial product. If one’s been with Reddit this long, almost always the annoyance of everything being different at Lemmy is greater than the annoyance with whatever decision.
Not super practical but I like to donate my spare compute to Sheep-it
I tried the app for a few hours. NSFW content is indeed expensive but the upsell strategy is that you recieve a flirty or horny message and then another message you have to pay to see.