I don’t think it’s the politics. Alberta politics are always spicy. And yes, COVID was definitely a weird time, a time when we found out some of our friends and neighbours might actually be insane. But I can participate on my hometowns sub, no problems. Same with Albertas sub, it was definitely a left wing echo chamber, but I could still shrug it off. I don’t disagree that they are always sort of weird places, you are right on that. But I’m not sure you can peg r/Calgary to just that though. IMO, it was super duper bad moderation, and overall shitty behaviour by them and some other aggro users. Which in turn led to all the old school users abandoning it, then leading to whatever it really is nowadays, which is a literal piece of shit. Reddit moderation is an actual problem. Actually Reddit itself is an actual problem, the world’s the better for it’s decline. As a sidenote, I also like how theres no collected karma, you can judge comments for what they are, not who they are. You don’t have to make comments to try and gather positive karma. That’s whats going to make this community a better place, again IMO.