I can’t speak for the “pre-migration” folks, but I was (I think) an early post-migration adopter (as soon as the spez AMA was over), and even I have seen a change. One thing is the desperation to fill the comms. with content, so Reddit repost bots are constantly flooding my All. Another, somewhat connected problem is the content posters (news articles, mostly) cross posting to all the related communities because not everyone is subscribed to c/news@whatever .instance, which is a flood in itself of the same post dispersed by other posts. It’s definitely more content (though not exactly doomscroll worthy, which is fine with me) but the content is repetitive because of these problems.

I came from reddit to fmhy early in the exodus, then moved to blahaj when that shut down, and finally to here with the defed. Over those weeks, the amount of libs gradually increased to ever more obnoxious levels.

hexbear federated after the migration. but i imagine there are a lot more libs not used to being challenged by genuine leftists, as they are coming from the liberal walled garden of

yes. I mostly posted at hexbear the past 3 years which I’m not really counting as we were unfederated, but for a long time I’d check in on lemmy.ml occasionally and it was mostly a ghost town. For better and worse the reddit migration turbocharged lemmy’s growth.

It moved the political center of gravity to the right, as before lemmy was primarily a space filled with leftish open source communities and outright socialist/communist communities, while the new communities are much more likely to be standard US or EU liberals, and occasional conservatives.

but it’s still for the best, I still appreciate discourse moving to an open decentralized platform and away from corporate bullshit, even if it means I once again have to see a lot more dumb political takes