I think you are over conflating "reddit-isms" and "internet-isms". Reddit is where stuff like this has been most prominent for a while - but the whole funny naming thing has been around since the birth of the internet.

Can't wait for the beta to start!

Samesies. The majority of the subs I used on Reddit have gone dark - but I am still using it to catch news articles that aren't making their way over here. But that has been rapidly changing.

If Boost goes, though - I go. But it randomly had a pretty big update today so I'm not sure what's going on there.

I could be wrong - but I'm not seeing anything that will help search engines index kbin.social effectively. There is a loose robots file, but I'm not seeing any indicator of site maps. Pretty much a necessity if you want to get crawled automatically.