100% agree. I’ve been around long enough to witness the rise and fall of many social services, even “pre-internet” such as Compuserve and QuanumLink. As they grow, civility has a bad habit of declining. It’s a pipe dream to believe that Lemmy will forever remain pristine but I want to believe federated services have a better shot as mods and admins don’t have to be nearly as tolerant of bad behavior as on the major services. There’s no business pressure to allow toxic communities to live on simply because they generate clicks and, as a result, revenue.