It was always weird to me that people thought that unless a website goes on...for literally until the end of time it failed in some way. A lot of fedi critics think that the sheer fact that an instance CAN shut down makes it unstable and unusable in some way. But I grew up in an era where lots of websites came and went, you'd move from one to another and if you were friends with people you'd probably have them on an instant messenger to keep in touch. I don't see how that's a mark of failure. If you can run a site for years, you've succeeded for sure. And I'm honestly glad that my current corporate social media accounts aren't tied to stuff I posted in my teens, sometimes those occasional venue shifts are a GOOD thing.