It's how the old saying goes: out with the old in with the new!

It seems to be working for me. Fediverse apps don't need to nessesarily be popular with the general public in order to be useful to us in nichie communities.

I'm going to miss Reddit

I've been trying to encourage people and the communities I care about on Reddit to bridge to another social network for a decade. I am so, so happy it is finally happening.

It was their crappy mobile UI and app that drove me to Relay for Reddit. Now that they're getting pushed out I'm done, it's going to hurt a bit but it's the right thing to do.

my life would be substantially better if i never joined reddit in the first place

This is just the evolution of forums, ngl. We've moved from dislocated hobby groups to a consolidated place where anyone can find the forum they need, to realising the problem with pure consolidation.

i miss the memes, the rest of it is toxic

Eh, I've left other sites. Reddit has been going downhill for years.

I joined in 2013, left in 2019. I remember watching what was foreign and corporate manipulation of threads via sockpuppet accounts increase over time. After that, every thread posted by an admin whose name was popping up as admin for several subreddits started eating at my impression that this was an "organic" community.

Signed off after killing my account in 2019. I lurked on and off without an account via 3rd party apps and the desire to rejoin the fray never returned.

I've happily been a part of the fediverse since on Mastodon and Pixelfed.

Man, Reddit and Tumblr were my favourite social medias, what a shame