Funny, I've been slowly moving more of my activity back to Reddit for the same reason. I stay away from the bigger subs though.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of terrible people there but they're an easy to ignore terrible. When you read something downright asinine there it's really easy to write it off as someone who's 14 and hasn't got the life experience to realize how crazy their opinions are. When you read something asinine here it's attached to a profile that says "senior dev at company X and maintainer of open source project Y" and seeing supposedly smart people be so stupid is a lot harder to rationalize.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of terrible people there but they're an easy to ignore terrible. When you read something downright asinine there it's really easy to write it off as someone who's 14 and hasn't got the life experience to realize how crazy their opinions are. When you read something asinine here it's attached to a profile that says "senior dev at company X and maintainer of open source project Y" and seeing supposedly smart people be so stupid is a lot harder to rationalize.