Lemmy is going through that middle-school/puberty age, with all the corny forced memes; (eg. The beans, stroganoff, etc. phases) bandwagon voting, and toying with the line between light-hearted and mean when trying to roast or joke around.
Reddit is still bandwagon voting and they've been around for a decade. I think that's just a function of having a downvote button on the internet. Almost made me want to join Beehaw