I think it's down to they kept or replaced enough subreddit mods that actually make reddit work. That and crucially lemmy or any alternative barrier to entry is/was still too difficult. Less users less content.

It's a long difficult road to break people's social media inertia and habits. Also reddit is obviously trying to become more addictive like TikTok, another barrier for alternatives that rightfully refuse to so that, but in some way they're fighting biology as well.

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"Fancy" spices if any of them is into cooking (penzeys is an example shop). Or a nice cookbook.

Tea or coffee if they're into it

Gift subscription to like an online publication they're interested in

Embroidery kit

Hot sauce

Flashlight/headlamp, first aid kit, weather radio

I miss the days when trolls were fairly harmless.

He's still a billionaire tho 🤮

Dude just try to be a little open minded to a potentially good thing.

The entire process releases zero greenhouse gases, uses no farmland to feed cows, and despite its industrial appearance, has a significantly smaller footprint.

Here's the report this came from https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07-25/texas-is-still-in-drought-and-ai-data-centers-are-quietly-guzzling-up-water/

Oh, I took your original question more generically. You can use last.fm to provide you with recommendations in general according to what you listen to (after scrobbling your library for a while), but acquiring the recommendations (and/or integrating into your active playlist) is a whole other thing. I'm sure it's possible but I don't know of out of the box way. Might be a plugin or something out there for it somewhere. That's why the convenience of streaming can be pretty nice.

Last.fm, but pay the artists somehow, concerts, merch or imo one of the streaming platforms.

I dunno I like elden ring and rdr2. Some are still good, just not most, anymore