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I think that's a little disengenuous. You can be concerned about the quality of conversation without wanting to play victim about it.
Even if you take away responses to the obvious alt-right bullshit and dogwhistles, Reddit absolutely had a hivemind problem and was largely unable to hold real discussions on any sub with any significant userbase.
Filtering what's worthy of discussion from bait by people with no good faith can be hard, and for people who actually want to talk deeper about issues that require addressing controversial details, even if that's in order to refute the bad-faith interpretation, will be more susceptible to being downvoted by people assuming bad faith.
If a more down-to-earth, small, approachable community that you can have deeper discussions with than most social media is what you came here for, I think it's entirely justified to be disapointed if you've seen an uptick in dogmatic rhetoric that leaves out any room for those conversations.
Well that was an excellent, nuanced, comment - cheers. I have seen examples supporting OPs observation, but I'm too new to know if this is a change.