At the end of the day, people either feel welcomed here or they do not. Admiral Patrick did not, and now he’s gone. My reply up above was downvoted, so I guess I should not feel welcomed either? Perhaps I should only speak what the group-think wants to hear, and then I could be accepted and loved? :-P I am being facetious obviously (proof: see tongue faced emoji:-D), but underneath that I am also serious: however it happens, we really do need to create / allow spaces for people to discourse on matters, or else it will not happen. Which is why it is not happening, which is why Lemmy is becoming the way that it is. Lemmy is not “dying” - b/c new people are continuing to come here from Reddit - but the ideals that certain people (such as Admiral Patrick) had are dying, the hopes and dreams of what Lemmy could become.