The userbase needs to be more moderate and grown up.

Way too many of the users operating at a toddler/teenager level and they have victim-bully complexes. and when presented with adult things like facts and reasonable discourse, they throw temper tantrums. the lack of open-mindedness, curiosity, and respect for others differences is astounding.

this is what destroyed reddit. the sensitive wannabe edgelords became the mods and took over and destroyed so many communities. they say randomness, uniqueness, and diversity as threats to themselves and systematically stamped out those things until many of them became bland echo chambers of users parroting the same cliche talking points at teach other and bias-confirming, and banning/removing any content that didn’t mesh with their pre-selected ‘correct’ beliefs.

I legitimately adored reddit back when it was a diverse space of random people sharing things, but that when it was a weird niche website nobody knew about. it felt like a genuinely productive space to learn stuff from other people, rather than a endless stream of bullshit.

the issue with lemmy and fedi is that few users here seem to be interested in a pre-bullshit type of internet community, and very interested in having a space where they can push their own bullshit and get ‘followers’ rather than foster interaction.