It literally said in the linked post that this isn’t the case…

You mean 1%?

I agree, but in my experience the focused communities that I liked to browse on Reddit were almost never toxic. The difference may be that I deliberately went to the specific communities that I was interested in; I generally never just browsed Popular, where I’m sure the bulk of the toxicity was.

Unfortunately the communities that I’m interested in have next to no activity here, so I would definitely like to see more users.

Pretty much none of the communities that I used to browse on Reddit are active here, so I wouldn’t mind more people here.

In my experience, Instagram has also become the most reliable source for local restaurants randomly being closed (this has happened more often than I would like to discuss post-pandemic) and breweries (i.e. which food truck is at which brewery on any given day).

I have found those to be the only reasons that I ever check Instagram.