It kind of seems like the results of that experiment are most of the “edgy” type leftists not sticking around, and the site turning into the sort of insular “carelord” haven that the original dirtbag people were rebelling against.

To be clear, there is certainly a place for that type of community, especially as leftist politics are pushed off of Reddit and Facebook. It’s just not at all like the community it sprang from. Interestingly, a sort of inverse phenomenon happened to the cumtown subreddit when it was kicked off Reddit, it immediately became a pol-tier garbage fire.