…having strong principles and actually sticking to them might be a common theme among the userbase here.

That’s what I’ve traditionally thought, but I’ve found there’s less of it that sentiment than I’d hoped for. A lot more people willing to be ‘content consumers’ or opinion-spewers without doing much to help make the FV work than I’d imagined. That said, some of that’s surely just whining on my part as someone who chronically wishes that more communities (including mine) received more help & participation, as well as someone on the ‘snappish-side’ due to constant pain. Also, not everyone here necessarily came from Reddit, or has any special respect for the Fediverse.