I’m such a solipsist, I’m surprised reddit is still relevant to anyone. I certainly come across some posts when searching for tech or product questions, but that’s it.

Although even outside of the fedi, I spend more and more of my time just looking at people’s individual websites and blogs. I’ve got a basically bottomless RSS feed curated by this point, so I don’t even need an aggregator for the scroll – I’ve got my own.

Welcome. :)

Hell yeah forums

Depends what communities you frequent, I think. I’m still drinking from the “all/hot” firehose presently, but I see myself spending more time in the smaller communities as lemmy overall get bigger and more mainstream.

If a person tells me their gender, how should I react/respond to it? Is my current line of actions appropriate (just address them with their preferd pronouns, and if I do not know that, use they/them; completely ignore the sexual part of it)

That’s perfect. Many people struggle with this, myself included, but if you make an honest effort to address people by their preferred pronouns, then you’re doing great.