I’m going to throw in a defense of saying both sides for the sake of argument. Both sides can be guilty of similar behavior and pointing that out should not imply symmetry between them. I personally find it frustrating to discuss topics that aren’t framed explicitly as right VS left because you immediately get piled of for “both sides aren’t the same!!”.

Yeah I totally get the decision but I gotta say I’m disappointed. Maybe it’s naive but I loved the idea that one of the premiere instances of lemmy had a core ethos that was a bit different and hopefully less toxic. Now instead of being a core driver for the developing culture of the lemmyverse were kinda just going to end up a niche walled garden. But again, from a mod perspective it get it. It sucks the tools simply don’t exist to deal with the massive influx of reddit users.

Realistically, I’ll probably end up with a main account elsewhere and hopefully continue to participate here occasionally.