A little maybe, but not much.
I’ve seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.
It is disappointing, but it’s the better option.
Definitely felt smaller and somewhat colder when initially switching. Normally smaller communities are nicer? Educated guess suggests a lot of autism going on in our core membership, it’s a high tech early-adopter crowd, not always known to be the warmest and fuzziest of individuals. Personally I decided, fuck it, I’ll just be my weird self and people can cope. Ignore it when you occasionally get downvoted to shit, it’s just a feature of Lemmy.