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Personally I've termed the phenomenon Lemmy-Decompression.
I'm using bigger words now, where before I would dumb my conversation down to be accessible to even children. I'm cussing more, and using more slang in general. I'm being blatantly sarcastic without tagging and without fearing I'll whoosh the whole userbase.
Yeah, it's pretty nice. Though I also hit the new Fediverse thing so hard I did give myself some social media burnout and have had to cut my usage down since. But it's fine, I knew I couldn't maintain something like 30 decent comments/day and 3 posts/day for very long. It was the peak of the reddit influx, so I wanted to be around and helping a lot.
Let's be real though, the same thing happens all the time when a site is young. People like Us who are willing to move over to a new platform and give it a solid effort aren't the ones who ruined the last few sites like digg and reddit.
Once the masses get here things are going to change, and I'm not looking Forward to it. Things here are nice, if a little quiet. Good conversation, but not enough yet.
It's true that the demographic tendencies of early adopters are definitely a factor. The Fediverse has a baked-in solution though: Go to a smaller Instance and block the big ones.
Everyone who says the Fediverse will eventually get just as bad as anywhere else is forgetting this one key technical difference. This is not the same as a major tech company holding, fundamentally.
I'll admit, I'm new to the concept of federation. Ive read a bit, but it's hard to imagine how that all works once the scale goes crazy. It'll be interesting, and I hope it grows to the point where I see exactly what you mean.
I wrote a breakdown in regular language for it, helps grasp the scope and degree of freedom:
https://lemmy.world/post/583669
I'm already starting to see that begin to change though, compared to a few weeks ago. It might have been a very temporary phenomenon.
I too started to decompress, but I think now I am going to go back to merely lurking, it is just not worth the headache of arguing with people who are not engaging in good faith.
It is a fundamental law of the universe that I can only control myself, not others, so if they want to make NOISE rather than articulate actual logic in the form of speech, I can do nothing against that onslaught. There are just so MANY of them, and only one of myself to have to work against the trend, e.g. blocking people.