I'm not saying don't criticize it. I'm saying even understand what it's trying to do before you start whining about how it doesn't work.

This was always, ALWAYS going to happen. That was the plan. The idea isn't to magically solve all of Reddit's problems, but to decentralize the product. It's the same product, OF COURSE it has nearly the same identical flaws on a per-instance basis.

The entire point is the federation and choice, NOT some mystical idea of a Reddit without Reddit problems. That's just stupid expectations.