We just don’t smell the rot yet. It’s not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.

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    The website feels dead already. Like, the comments are more empty, there are less memes in tech-heavy subreddits, etc. The nerds have left.

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      Meanwhile, here in the Fediverse I’ve been seeing a lot of impressively creative memes. I don’t know if they’re originating here, or if they’re copy-pasted from elsewhere, but I’m comfortable here where memes are concerned.