If traditional social media platforms die, then most of their users will move to federated ones and end up turning those into dumpster fires. I'm a Reddit migrant and I've already noticed Reddit behavior just a couple weeks in, also known as "not good". I'm getting the vibe that Mastodon could suffer from this a few months or years from now due to Elon Musk's questionable decisions regarding Twitt- I mean X, and the fact that nobody uses Threads anymore (it's basically a giant Israel-Palestine debate right now). I'm not sure about PixelFed or PeerTube or any of the other ActivityPub alternatives to traditional platforms.

Is it worth adding the "van Lemmy" suffix to my username? Yeah, it sounds more Flemish (I am not from Flanders), and it reveals to the world that I'm some random loser from the fediverse, even though I've only ever spent a few months here. Also, there's probably a few other folks who refer to themselves as "Resol", so it kinda makes me stand out.