I see a lot of comments from bootlickers on how the protests are dumb and stupid and dont work and engagement metrics are still holding but the quality of posts and comments has noticeably depreciated imo. So much so that whenever I visit the site Im actually shocked at how bad it is.
I think this is really what it is. I’ve spent a lot of my time here enamored with the quality of conversation, and when I joined it reminded me of the sort of discussion I used to scroll through on forums when I was a kid.
I hadn’t seen it since, and I’d gotten so used to the bullshit that I barely remembered the difference. I’d really just chalked up the civility to the forum in question being several dozen regulars who knew each other too well to be dicks.
We need more content, but it’s making me kind of averse to pushing so hard to get the rest over here, lest they just bring the shit behavior with them
All places eventually trend towards their Eternal September. In the meantime just push back against it as much you can and enjoy what you got.