That’s just plain wrong. The main reason the majority of people moved here is because they don’t want the way they view their content to be controlled by spez/musk/whoever. I’d bet most of people here (me included) would have kept consuming what you call that “barrage of monotonic, brain-rotting content” on reddit if not for spez forcing us to use his shitty ads- and trackers-filled app.
The problem will stay there as long as lemmy links don’t automatically redirect to your instance in somr way.