I will say that it isn’t usually like this.

I mean there’s always drama somewhere but this drama is especially big because a LOT of people found out all at once that either:

1. their content feeds were being censored/manipulated without their knowledge

Or

2. They were being shadowbanned (either as an individual or because their home server was censored)

by a developer who went to some pretty incriminating lengths to obfuscate the censorship he was baking into a tool that lots of people were using.

Most of the time I look at my memes and the drama passes me right by. It’s there if you look for it, of course, but this particular snafu is a bit of an outlier.