yes. I mostly posted at hexbear the past 3 years which I'm not really counting as we were unfederated, but for a long time I'd check in on lemmy.ml occasionally and it was mostly a ghost town. For better and worse the reddit migration turbocharged lemmy's growth.

It moved the political center of gravity to the right, as before lemmy was primarily a space filled with leftish open source communities and outright socialist/communist communities, while the new communities are much more likely to be standard US or EU liberals, and occasional conservatives.

but it's still for the best, I still appreciate discourse moving to an open decentralized platform and away from corporate bullshit, even if it means I once again have to see a lot more dumb political takes