>>71492632Globalhomo happened. Also yes, "free speech" is gone. Reddit is controversial enough for most that they don't need to come here, It's also better moderated, for the better or worse. Central social media platforms killed it for most, most fringy hobbies just resort to discord.
Non-ironically normies discord tend to have less drama, but interactions are really synthetic.
There was A LOT of e-drama around the old stuff as well on IRCs, skype, etc, but at least it didn't often bleed out to the boards like it does nowadays.