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Agreed with your closing thoughts. It's never been more obvious that we can't rely on commercial entities.
The fruits of years of organic growth within subs squandered in the name of corporate profits should be the wake-up call the average person needs.
Often when things like this happen (see:dig, twitter) the question gets asked "what can be done?" Well, let me tell you about FOSS..
I am sure that most people here adopt the principles of FOSS. I wouldn't miss at all the various "mainstream" subs with poor content but some of the best subs could be encouraged to migrate to the fediverse. I have really high hopes for this project.
I spent a lot of time on the niche tech/maker/cooking subs. Seems a lot of the fediverse did as well, because the ones I've found here are almost as active!
I have the same feeling too. The communities here keep growing. The first weeks here felt a bit... lonely. But now it feels like the fediverse is starting to thive!