For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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    My biggest worry is a fracturing of some communities. For tech support for various companies, different niche academic communities, etc. that had a free and easy place to have discussions instead of running their own forum. If we end up with those groups splitting and half staying on Reddit, half coming here, that’s a bummer all around for someone who previously knew where they would find the best info.

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      On the flip side, I’d love if companies put up their own instance. Raspberry Pi hosts their own mastodon and I think it’s a good way for a company to have representation.

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      It is just a matter of time. Either Reddit win this war and everyone goes back to Reddit, or Reddit bankrupts and chaos rules for a while until someone else win this.