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I actually said the same a few days ago. Lemmy now is how reddit was back in the beginning.
The question that remains to be answered is, are the normies that moved to Reddit responsible for what it became? Or was it a product of the corporate profit driven manipulation of the platform? Time will tell..
Edit: It's worth noting, I don't mean to say 'normies' a a pejorative term, just the most casual way to differentiate the more tech-savvy, active early adopters that I find many people currently using the platform are, versus those who are simply doom scrolling content on social media.
I think it's probably both.
I think the biggest decline was just before the 2016 US election.
That seemed to be the point at which the site hit "mainstream" and with that came a huge influx of new users, and with the influx of new users came the increase of corporate interest to advertise to the new massive audience.
r/all switched to be almost nothing but arguing US politics.
Definitely, astroturfing/Cambridge analytica/Russian bot farms coming up on the 2016 US election were the major causes of a shift in the paradigm. The actual results of the election and Brexit then influenced a strong divisive change in society globally. The pandemic brought even more people online who were dropped right into this chaotic chapter in Internet/cultural history.
Gonna be some really interesting studies in the future looking at how all of this played out.