The People Who Made Big Platforms Interesting Are Quietly Walking Out the Side Door
Everyone's Packing Up
A wave of blog posts — leaving Reddit, WordPress, Discord, GitHub, Photoshop — all share the same shape: someone spent years somewhere, it changed under them, and now they're packing up. What strikes me is that hardly anyone is leaving for something bigger. They're going smaller: a personal site, a self-hosted app, a capsule nobody stumbles onto by accident. Less reach, more control. A few years ago that sounded like giving up; now it sounds sensible.
But the people who made them interesting in the first place keep quietly walking out the side door, and writing a post about it on their way out.