I found that the increasing toxic environment to be a major turn off. There’s sarcasm and there are the toxic jokes that became pervasive. This is in addition to what the OP said and others. I just wish Lemmy had more communities or those that were more than a handful for topics that I might be interested in.

Put it this way: in my country, they design clothes to look like the national flag is wrapped around their body. It’s all pretty silly, but that’s what they do in addition to flying the flag everywhere.

I’m a polyglot programmer here