people here go out of their way to be pointlessly cruel and vindictive to fellow comrades

My experience has been the exact opposite, that people are much friendlier here than they were on reddit. I have read others say the same thing. Maybe just on this one issue, things have been rough?

I feel the community is largely poisonous.

It’s honestly appearing this way to me and it feels like this site is doomed to fail in a series of byzantine flails for social capital on a website that’s only popular to a certain niche of person.

We’re arguing about pronouns now and the website itself is named after a podcast that most users deem not even that progressive, despite the identity being linked entirely to it in brand name.

I feel like tribal conservatives read this site and just laugh. Nobody here knows how to be taken seriously or go about anything despite having the only non-harmful political views, which in itself is a large victory but not the victory.

Too late they have power for the sake of power now