For what's it worth, I'm glad the shouty ones were leftists because otherwise I wouldn't even give lemmy a chance.

They haven't calmed down, they're just defederated from most major instances when you add up all the instances they defederated from and all the instances that defederated from them.

I didn't take any notice of which instances they were from. The people I'm thinking of didn't talk about politics - they were shouty about other things.

It was also loud without much good communication.

If you're not that technologically inclined, or not a developer, you're not going to know what all the yammering about APIs are about, and how it affects your experience.

The moderators on r/Blind protesting might be all well and good, but it's not much of a reach for someone to not see how them being impacted would affect your user experience.

Same for all the shouting about power users, apps, and moderator tools. That's not a concern for most users, especially the ones who either already use Reddit on the computer, or just downloaded the Reddit app.

There wasn't a good, clear, short, coherent message, nor much of a sustained, co-ordinated effort to explain the issue, not what it would mean for users that aren't that technologically inclined, or engaged.

It basically ran into the whole average familiarity issue.

Ah thank you, I'll look into it