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Good riddance. The tech focus was watered down over a decade ago (inb4 "but my niche sub about 1382 medieval Ottoman mace makers"). The subs to talk about social and personal life stuff are trolled so hard. Most casual users are completely oblivious to the scum and villainy of bad actors. Save for a few I've seen with mods that have a brain. Even then they're powerless to do all but make sure users know.
It was already on the decline by 2016, but it never recovered from the_donald. Then they brought in a whole new user base with the redesign and push to mobile. All of those users assumed that deranged manic atmosphere was the norm. Maybe that's how other big social platform are? I don't know. Maybe they like that stuff. Some of them seem to. Crazy.
Oh yeah, and one of my sports team subs has dug in a network effect even though the mods have been using it for personal gain since about 2010. I hated that place and I'm glad to have been rid of it over the past few years.
The Donald showed bad actors around the world how easy it was to rile people up and push narratives across the platform. It should have been nuked sooner.
the decline started when politics/propaganda started to become more intrusive, which is the time around P45 administration.