I am myself a newcomer, did a full switch straight from reddit.
However, I did it just a few weeks before mods and admins started to crack down hard on certain opinions. Guess I had seen the sign on the wall.
I believe reddit’s clear change of direction has pushed many more people into the lemmyverse, many of them just like me, straight from reddit.
I sense that recently the tone around many subs has shifted towards more agressive and more divisive, and other patterns I recognize all too well from my years on reddit.
Do other people sense this too? Am I on the right track or completely off?
Generally, yes, though time on Lemmy tends to shift people’s perspective to “fit in” more. Then the users coming in self-sort into whatever instance aligns best with what they want, and then these servers get reinforced.
time on Lemmy tends to shift people’s perspective to “fit in” more.
That sounds good; maybe my post sounded a bit pessimistic.
