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?
That’s an intrinsic property of new online communities people flock to over time; look up Eternal September where it originally happened to Usenet.
Yes, that’s a given. I just wanted to hear other people’s squishy feelings about it. It seems most (some who’ve been here for years) don’t see it so dramatically.