While I agree that user-generated reddit topics are best left to a dedicated community, I also think that published articles discussing the platform are appropriate for any Technology community; no different than Twitter, Threads, or other social media platform news coverage.

I'm with you, but judging by the number of upvotes this post got, apparently we're in the minority on this.

i was hoping with lemmy people would stop caring about something completely arbitrary like this

Nah, lemmy.ml is a fucking shithole.