An update from my post last week. Combined results from API calls to lemmy.world, beehaw.org, and sh.itjust.works, and generated a wordcloud representing the 100 communities with highest combined active users per month. Generated a few minutes ago.
This is the thing for me. I think I'm experiencing a bit of news FOMO. Reddit has been reliable for years at supplying news, cat antics, and pretty girls. I also agree that google+reddit has been really useful in solving very specific problems.