Federated networks like Mastodon and Lemmy are going to get people well-acquainted with websites shutting down. It's hard work (time, money, etc.) to run these things for people, and people start to really lean on them.
It's almost novel now days getting sucked into something that shuts down. killedbygoogle.com is a meme partly I think because websites shutting down is just so uncommon in areas that we get personally invested in.
I run my own Lemmy instance just for my self and even that can be trying sometimes. I enjoy using it instead of reddit, but one day I will probably shut it down and be sad.
It's almost novel now days getting sucked into something that shuts down. killedbygoogle.com is a meme partly I think because websites shutting down is just so uncommon in areas that we get personally invested in.
I run my own Lemmy instance just for my self and even that can be trying sometimes. I enjoy using it instead of reddit, but one day I will probably shut it down and be sad.