I know we're all having a grand ol' time gravedancing here, but it is worth noting there is one area in which reddit shines: collating information on niche interests. Granted they did so by absorbing every other niche forum in existence, but the fact remains if you can keep your head down and avoid conversation with reddit's wet-brained denizens or its janny pinkshirts, reddit remains an excellent depository on information on everything from HoI4 mods to wood carving with a chainsaw. If you have anything you care about, don't trust removeeddit or the way back machine to make a copy for you, back it up yourself. Save the pages wholesale, save it in notepad docs if you have to. And if you feel you can stomach it, get information on the Discords and other places if you're attached to any of the smaller communities. I've seen the hammer drop before, and trust me, it comes down hard and fast and without warning at all.
The spigot of free VC money is down to a trickle and we're on the precipice of seeing what happens when websites not owned by the Silicon Valley tech duumvirate have to start hustling for some cheddar. Everything I just said goes double for any other seemingly unprofitable web services that were also coasting on VC money. If it's not saved on a hard drive you control, it exists on a foundation of sand. In an unusually tectonically active area.
