Nah, its just as bad here as anywhere.

Maybe the bots have gotten to us or maybe people genuenly really like sharing rage bait shit.

The barrier isnt that high in my opinion at least. Its just signing up to any instance in lemmy and thats it. I choose shitjustworks cuz they seemed level headed and i heard some nasty rumors about some of the other bigger lemmy instances so that was another factor on it i guess.