Ubuntu for quite a few years but I’m going back to Debian next.

I only come to Reddit to check the status of my data takeout request and use teddit to check out /r/modcoord and /r/redditalternatives though they’re winding down. Migration complete, after 3 years.

Make no mistake, it will also happen here over time. Unless admins and mods work hard to prevent it. Some instances will do better than others.

Those niche communities you are missing? Recreate them here, and invite people over there to join.

If you miss something here, create it.

The grass roots are also wilted, though. All communites decline, unless painstakingly maintained. Not many want to keep doing that on a proprietary, hostile platform. So the overall degeneration is obvious.

Yes. I gradually disengaged over the years. I will become less active once the pump is primed. Perhaps turn to more technical aspects, as maintaining my own instance. Or be more offline in general.

Don’t forget blue oysters.

The Eternal September. The Great Digg Exit.

I don’t use it for interpersonal communication at all. I use it to get a particular angle coverage on a particular topic at very high volume since from hundreds of channels. I will likely mostly stop when my interest passes. I also intend to start Lemmy in earnest (gosh, my account will turn 4 tomorrow, with nothing to show for it) now, that we have critical mass and soon lots of tools.

No, it depends on the number of community subscriptions. Still not nearly the firehose that is Telegram.