That has already happened in the last years.

Engagement metrics are up, that’s all that counts.

Doomscrolling used to have a meaning of browsing /r/collapse and /r/collapsescience rather than /r/worldnews

There is also neuroscience!neuroscience@lemmy.world

I was on Reddit since the beginning. It was mailing lists before and Usenet in the 1990s.

Lemmy now is how early Reddit used to be, only more jaded.

As long as you do it on your subscribed communities. With the volume going up time to become more focused: /c/technology noise level is getting too high.

My data takeout request arrived yesterday, so next I’ll be filing a GDPR request which I will use to rewrite my history before deleting it and then filing another GDPR request which then better be empty.

EU’s GDPR officers will be very interested in Reddit’s documented inability to delete EU Reddit users’ personal data.

Many are waiting for their data takeout requests to complete before doing the same. And to follow up with GDPR requests/GDPR deletion requests.

All to improve their quarter numbers pre-IPO.

I’m waiting for my data takeout, so checking old.reddit.com messages once a day. No other engagement beyond that. Lemmy communities are getting really good now.

I recommend mirroring whole /r/ subs to /c/ communities using automated tools. I don’t need to see Reddit content in /c/reddit – at all.

Reddit will cheerfully disregard personal requests. Unless you can spend significant resources for a lawsuit, but even then chances are lower than using existing legal frameworks where available.

Delegating is a good approach. Picking people you can trust is however not easy.

I would suggest using great care in accepting new mods coming from Reddit. Do look at their history with their community and what they shaped the community into.

If you are in the EU, complain to your GDPR officer. Californians also have similar legislation.

Those other, subpar sites like Slashdot and Digg.

The Eternal September hasn’t really even started yet.

FOAF network for validation. For PGP signing parties people could even ask for ID.

The most thorough option is running your own instance. Most won’t do this, but you can.

When Reddit was open source you could set up your instance. But unmaintained, and without federation.

I unsubbed there yesterday. When you got the message, hang up the phone ;)