I agree. In my case it was a necessity, so I spent a bit of time actively looking for a Reddit alternative.

I half-heartedly joined Lemmy on a random instance (is that what they’re called? I forget). Anyway, it was Lemmy.pl and it went offline for a bit before I could get anywhere with it.

I tried again with lemmy.world and then stumbled across Boost, which was my favourite app for Reddit before they locked everything down and forced everyone on to the inferior Reddit app.

Anyway, the experience now is great. Just like old times. I confess I’ve no real interest in the fediverse as such, although I’m of course greatful that others do and that it exists. I’m just glad to be able to easily interact with communities that seems to be free from oppressive moderation and cold, automated admins that ban longtime users for accidental missteps.

The slow but inevitable murder of platforms by their paymasters is a real pisser.

Feels like every platform starts well, expands and just gradually mutates into unusable corporate dogshit.