What you think programmers never get sloshed on amaretto stone sours and take to social media creating a very uncomfortable situation with their mother in law?
That's unfortunately a side effect of this type of UI, upvotes and downvotes inherently cultivate a hive mind mentality, making following the meta more important than critical thinking. If you make a clone of Lemmy I guarantee you it will follow the same path eventually
Amen, Lemmy is in the starting stages of how reddit went my brother. It's inherent to the format