Been mostly a reddit lurker since the collapse of digg. I generally don't make accounts after a series of website shutdowns, it's annoying to put energy/time/upkeep into someone else's platform (anybody still remember Microsoft Spaces? -- a MySpace knockoff).

Eversince those experiences, I have essentially used RSS/Atom and XML feeds for all my news and various forum of interest whenever available. Otherwise I run my own scrapping tools with a mix of cURL, xmlstarlet, jq, etc... and whatever new fancy tools are Du Jour.

Even price watching for deals on different online stores; I almost always guest checkout (exception for stores I purchase from multiple times monthly, keeping track of orders and return can be annoying).

Hopefully, this fediverse-thing will be more resilient. Nevertheless, I'm ready to jump ship whenever I see the usual Iceberg...