I’m honestly tempted to start looking into RSS, I’ve never used it before but now without reddit it would be nice to have a centralized location to view absolutely everything relevant to my interests.

Defederating can be temporary, though. They can refederate later on once modding tools have improved etc. I don’t really blame them for having to iron out some kinks with all of the extra influx of users, the graphs of the new users look crazy. I think it’ll smooth out over time.