Nothing of value was added by the megausers that were all over the front page.

The value was added in community discussion and the aggregation of knowledge from random people who had value information and knowledge to share on certain subjects.

I’m sad thinking about all the valuable info out there that’ll be deleted while people leave reddit, but I also don’t think the company deserves the value the users have put into it.

I agree. Front page of reddit has been trash for the past 5 or so years. But it’s smaller subreddits are where I spent my time. It became mainstream enough that there were communities for literally every topic or hobby imaginable. And they’d been around long enough for extensive wikis and info, and every question you can imagine has probably been asked and answered at some point. That’s the part that I’m going to miss, something that took a decade to build.

But it’s worth rebuilding that somewhere with the infrastructure like Lemmy. Not tied to a company.