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Thanks! Also will try to find info on that upcoming one.

Indeed seem to be few to me too. But I wonder elsewhere, like a Japanese Piefed instance and a S. Korean Mastodon instance I found before.

I guess it's safe to assume, then, that you are indeed a forum troll, going by your insistence on deviating the topic towards bickering and how you behave in the other comments. Thanks for confirming and have a good day/night, depending on where you are. =)

Given this has nothing to do with what I said, it sounds like an inversion to try to bait me into losing my cool, a strategy I often saw in trolls in other forums in years past. Still giving the benefit of doubt, while each person has his/her own form of taking and sharing information, I would still suggest considering how what you say could be taken as baiting or other strategies employed by trolls.

I'd suggest to avoid using some many adjectives in so little sentences. Some may take it as a sign that you could be a forum troll trying to cause a fuss for fun, and thus be more defensive around you. And if any here in the comments are "triggered" indeed, they still seem pretty tame in their responses.

Separating the title from the body of the post as I don't think they're directly related:

It would not sound surprising for me if staffers spied on competition to know how they can deal with competition, copy tactics, etc.

Regarding the meme itself, at least imo, having seen cases of what did seem like mass downvotings, the vote/downvote ratio doesn't seem that big.

Besides, two more things. First, some platforms seem to be more prone to mob mentality than others, so if you feel like you're targetted, maybe pay attention to where people are coming from. Second, each platform has their own cultures, so a post more negatived than the usual may simply be a termometer of a given platform's culture.

A given AI has an interpretation of the source materials, not the raw contents to offer. If this AI's interpretation is faulty, or if another, previously overlooked interpretation could be made, it can't be made if the sources are gone and no back ups were made. Also, AI could be tinkered to give biased replies. And also if preserving a given knowledge is entrusted to AI, what to do if it is unplugged?

And unrelated to the AI point, but Reddit had plenty of useful stuff, probably due to being the biggest of its type of social media for a long while. But also it would then suffer from barely any competition, turning it further and further into the decaying platform it now is.

So I stick to my point, I hope it doesn't fall too quickly - useful stuff can still be backed up. And if an user finds something yet to be backed up, I insist he/she does it, be it with Internet Archive, Archive.Today, and/or any others he/she may use.

Though I understand the feeling, I think that, if it must die, that it happens slowly, so people can have plenty of time to back up and/or mirror the useful stuff from there.