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I don't this is the reason. If a good portion of the users didn't want those things, they'd be downvoted to heck. It's more likely that a part of the reddit refugees didn't stick around.
I agree with rr7, I've come here because of the Reddit debacle, but I've gone away from Lemmy multiple times because politics has made its way into posts and communities where it does not belong.
I probably have different interests, but yeah, too often one discussion pollutes another. I know we love to hate on moderators, but it benefits us all to keep communities on whatever area they focus on. Moderators really do make the community