Would it be ridiculous of me to think that some of the defederation drama on Lemmy has been crafted by Reddit in some way to discourage adoption?

I have my share of problems with Reddit, but most of the stuff I read about the big Lemmy instances make it seem like the mods of some instances are teenagers on acid. Marxism is in the history books, and "deconstructing our privilege" sounds like something their therapist told them they needed to do and they're projecting.

It all feels a bit fake.

On Reddit I always felt like the naive utopian change the world stuff was confined to a few subs.