Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.
This is the biggest change from my perspective as well. 3 years ago, I could participate in the news and politics posts, but I feel very discouraged since the patience and nuance feels gone.
How much of it is individuals vs how much is the US pissing people off, I couldn’t say, but the amount of people looking to push personal agendas has taken over the main communities and I won’t comment there anymore for the most part.
I scroll them for headlines and read the article if it’s from a good source and mostly skip the comments.
Every other community has largely improved though. There is a bit more attitude I think, but everything is much better here than at reddit. I just got diagnosed with sleep apnea and now that I’ve been feeling better I’m catching up on manga, so I’ve been scrolling reddit some for those topics, and whenever I check out other random topics while I’m there, it is way trashier than I remember.
I’m still getting new followers and commenters in my posts, so the userbase still seems to be growing here.