My son and I watch every week. Amazing storytelling.

I see that you, too, have typed sudo once or twice into a windows shell

Rexxitor or Redfugee is what I call myself

Yay, I'm not the only one!

It will breathe fresh life into the fediverse. I can't wait.

You make great points, and style bonus for good turns of phrase.

ETA: I think you touched on a structural element that is also interdependent on demographics. Not age related, necessarily, but what are certain people looking for.

At some population density tipping point, Reddit stopped catering to thoughtful discussion, and became a place for memes and doomscrolling, bumper sticker slogans and reposts. Feedback loops developed, because people were coming for that content. Reddit became the place to find it.

Now, it's not that I don't partake of those sometimes, but I appreciate keeping those instances (subs) separate from the more interactive and human part.

I still lurk. I expected the slow decline and change in character that others here have predicted.
What I have seen in the last 8 days floored me. Continues to floor me. Reddit is already a zombie platform. Front page is week-old posts. Bot generated reposts from 2 weeks ago.
And astroturf posts trying to spin the whole thing as a "what was that blip?" Or "glad those whiners are gone"

It happened so much faster than I expected.