I can't tell you how tired I am of seeing posts about how it's okay that reddit is imploding because you can just start up an old school forum.

I fucking hope that the subreddits I occasionally interacted with do that, but you're really missing the point of you keep saying this. The vast majority of people who used reddit didn't run communities, and didn't actually care where that community was.

I still don't care, but now those communities are effectively dead.