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This has been my experience. Most posts I see criticize a team, product, or person (usually an executive) — and it's often clear they have very little context / criticism is usually directed from one part of the org to another.

This still happens for sure, in the form of the mentioned "bro talk" and unbearable clique-type memes, but it is now augmented with many more useful posts.

same. their traffic probably explode during a large corp layoff, and completely dies on the next week.

Which is ironic, because now lay'd of people will be "verified" on the old company email (and hearing all the grapevine pettiness about internal projects) while working for the competition.