it was really great that there were active subs devoted to incredibly obscure topics.

Yeah, and this is I honestly why I stubbornly keep working on fediverser even after the protests died out, and this is why I wasn’t expecting that the mirrors on alien.top were not so bad as some people here made them out to be. The content itself wasn’t bad, most people were just angry because they never learned (or cared) about curating their feed and just browsing on their specific communities.