Hi there, I came here to the BIFL Lemmy out of suspicion that the reddit posts are just unlabelled marketing, and I was wondering the possibility of sourcing goods that are more to a BIFL standard? In my area, second hand goods tend to be really quite poor in quality (reselling fast fashion) or otherwise not present, and I have not inherited anything that does last. So I would apprecite advice or reccomendations for finding goods at a BIFL standard. I was also wondering if maybe there would be anyone with good advice for finding sustainable, local textile production so that I may be able to tailor what I need without having to buy from the poor selection aforementioned, does anyone know of any of this?
TL:DR I am suspicious that a lot of what is claimed as ‘BIFL’ has been enshittified, and would like advice on being able to search for sustainable goods for a local area (not specified because I’m hoping for advice with searching, not exactly for specific reccs)
BIFL is certainly possible, and there are some things that aren’t for life but still last a long time.
Unfortunately you really need to look for them.
It’s unfortunate that product reviews don’t really focus on this kind of thing.
Another annoying aspect of searching for BIFL things is that (and I have no evidence of this, it’s just a feeling), whenever I search for BIFL things and search results take me to BIFL communities, it’s always the same companies mentioned, to the point where it often feels like company astroturfing.
To be fair, only a minority of companies produce products consistently that last longer than their competitors
That’s true, and part of why I say I don’t have any proof/that it’s just a feeling of mine.
Maybe I’m just being overly pessimistic, but there’s a few companies that BIFL on Reddit seem to really like and never shut up about. Maybe my fears are wrong though.
Regardless, this Lemmy BIFL community is so small it won’t even be on companies’ radars, so I’m not worried about it here for the time being