Once people come around to it being reddit but the accounts look and feel more like email, it’s going to take off (or continue to). It’s not such a great feat that it’ll be insurmountable for average internet users.
Ultimately, if the content is here, people will follow.
I deleted my mostly unused account shortly after Musk started showing his crazy. Anything that makes it harder to use it accidentally is fine by me.
I knew I read something was kept for 6 months ;)
Glad to see that even here, the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to provide a wrong one.
IIRC, I’ve read comments elsewhere that pictrs caches for 6 months, but I can’t independently verify. I hope this gets a broader answer because I’m still on the fence about getting an instance set up for myself and some small communities.
I can’t speak to long term, but I just registered my first domain through them yesterday and it seemed fine. Better than other small services I’ve used in the past, for sure.