It's not even brain drained, most of the high quality users were still there (including myself up until two weeks ago). They were just drowned out by the massive flood of mainstream instagram-esque users ending up on the site + bot accounts.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Myself was still commenting a few times there, although I'm potentially braindead. (I don't rule out the possibility.) But I feel like even the smarter Reddit users who were still using the platform became less and less encouraged to show "hey, there's intelligent life here". They were like, "I came, I saw, and I shut up because I'm not putting my hand in this wasp hive."