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What happened to Lemmy? In June people were saying it was all positive and better than Reddit...
Being niche worked against it's favor. For example:
Lemmy.ml used to ban "anti-tankie" people while Lemmy.world openly mocks them. The mods on Lemmy seem much more open to disrespect than your average Reddit mods.
It certainly was
How was it better before?
The quality of content and comments feels like it's gone down, maybe it just looks like it, but it definitely feels that way to me. Comment sections used to feel quite intelligent, while it doesn't really anymore or not as often.
Also all content just looks like Linux and political memes, maybe it always has been that but I'm getting a bit tired of it to be honest
Edit: Also, communism