Edit: It would be nice if there were a Wikipedia model equivalent to Reddit. A non-profit driven site for public discourse and discussion.
It seems like the moderators who enjoyed moderating bigger subreddits left the site and all that's left is power trippers who stuck around for the dust to settle so they could seize control and push their agenda.
Municipal/Provincial subreddits are nearly impossible to participate in because of how locked down the replacement mods have made them. The Toronto subreddit is run like a dystopian alternative reality where normal users can't post most news. Stories of crimes being committed is completely banned unless you're an approved poster or it's the cops committing crimes. The mods actively delete posts and then the same story gets re-uploaded by mods or their friends hours later and is allowed to stay up.
They need paid people.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
I don't know which ones are officially 501c3 in the US but nearly all of them aren't in it for any sort of profit motive. For reference, I use https://programming.dev/ (no affiliation other than I use it regularly and it seems alright).