OP here - agreed. I was rarely posting anyways. I'm personally replacing it with reading even more than A/SIDE. There are just some times I want to share something with friends and family and not fumble with iMessage.

Also it's very funny that they say "No AI training" and "Off big tech" on the home page, yet the landing page and the blog post are clearly entirely LLM-written

Edit: https://lab1908.com/ "Lab 1908 is a small product studio in Saint Paul, Minnesota. We design and build software — most of it AI-native, all of it shipped — for our own portfolio and a handful of partners."

Yeah, I left Facebook a decade back. Zero issues keeping in touch with folks that mattered. On the rare occasion I need to find someone I lost for something, it's been trivial.

OP here - also agreed! A/SIDE is for a middle ground/corner case, at least for me.