That's interesting, because I checked out everything2 last year to see what I had missed out on, and found it a nice place with poetry and personal essays. Maybe at some point their culture changed again?
It's entirely possible! I left sometime in the mid 2000s, so there's certainly a lot of time for cultures to have changed significantly even multiple times.
> Maybe at some point their culture changed again?
Supposedly Tumblr has done the same. They crashed and burned so hard that they actually came out of the ordeal with a reverse eternal September effect, where miraculously most people act respectfully towards each other and are not just trying to exploit the platform.