Just in case you didn’t know this, here is a program that lets you mass edit and delete all your comments on Reddit:

https://redact.dev/services/reddit

The free version only edits all your comments with random words, but for me was good enough just to delete my main account asap.

We may have to just accept that it won’t ever be a big platform for this very reason and just have fun there as a niche site.

I know my friend, I used to browse 4chan for years too since I was a teenager actually, I don’t remember what made me leave it but I know that I didn’t realize after later how hateful that site made me and how my view of the world was influenced by their echo chamber. I know it is a fun site but I realized it is not worth it, at least for me.

Well, you are here now at least, by the very definition of how lemmy works, you shouldn’t have this problem here unless you are really uncivil and still you can always change the instance. There is a lack of users and content comparing to any of the platforms you mentioned since this is a relatively new one but you are helping growing it too :)

To be honest you’ll do a great favor to yourself abandoning this site from hell.