I will just avoid their bullshit by using a different YouTube front-end.

You did the right thing. You told the truth.

Regarding Twitter, Elon seems to like trial and error, right? That's how SpaceX developed their rockets - by trying new things and testing them frequently, to see if they work.

So with Twitter I think he's just trying to see what he can get away with. And if he can't get away with something then he'll just roll it back.

As for Reddit, I guess they saw Twitter trying to squeeze more money from their platform and thought "let's try that too".

I'm not sure if Reddit will "die off". There seems to be a significant portion of users who don't care about the API debacle or protests - they just want to scroll through memes.

I would definitely like to see Reddit experience more pain, given how cunty they've been to users and moderators. But we live in a world where big companies act like shit and get away with it.

Surely people who want to quit Reddit and try out Lemmy or Kbin will have already done it by now?

True I suppose things could change over time. We'll have to see.

When I've checked the Reddit home page in the last few days (using an ad blocker of course, or sometimes an alternative Reddit front-end), it looks like stuff is still being posted.

Hopefully Reddit will feel more pain that persuades it to change course at least a little bit. But I won't believe that the pain is happening until I see it. Unfortunately it seems to me that there are some Reddit users who just want to watch the funny videos and don't care about Reddit's poor behaviour.