To me it was the toxicity. I posted a meme about "look how they massacred my boy" and the old and new DonkeyKong designs and got downvoted and mean comments. The site went to shit after the API-price increase and the only reason I’m still on there is that my hobbies aren’t on lemmy yet.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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If have I had to guess... a combination of well meaning rules built up over time that no one actually thought out, chronically online weirdos corrupted by the little bit of power afforded by moderating (which seems common in online communities) and cabals of state actors who moderate multiple subreddits in order to control and direct the narrative.
On the other hand, with how popular reddit has become and with how many bots are out there, it might be worse without the rules.
Great questions, but Lemmy is the exact same problem: anonymous accounts
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