Everyone's Packing Up
Everyone's Packing Up 01 Oct, 2026 I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Discord, GitHub, Codeberg, Photoshop, and more. There are also those talking about leaving the web entirely for the smallweb (Gopher, Gemini, etc).
- ▪Everyone's Packing Up 01 Oct, 2026 I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms.
- ▪This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Discord, GitHub, Codeberg, Photoshop, and more.
- ▪There are also those talking about leaving the web entirely for the smallweb (Gopher, Gemini, etc).
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| Original publisher | Thoughts 💭 of Widdershins |
| Canonical URL | https://widdershins.verja.net/everyones-packing-up/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:13:04 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T21:11:16.377Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T21:11:16.377Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Everyone's Packing Up 01 Oct, 2026 I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Discord, GitHub, Codeberg, Photoshop, and more. There are also those talking about leaving the web entirely for the smallweb (Gopher, Gemini, etc). The reasons vary. Pricing changes, AI training on everything you post, a new owner, a new policy, or just the slow feeling that things feel like they stopped being built for a person. But the posts all have the same shape. Someone spent years somewhere, it changed under them, and now they're packing up. What strikes me is that hardly anyone is leaving for something big. They're going smaller.
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