DuckDuckGo, mainly cause I have used it for years, instances of searxng are too spotty for me for day to day use, and I am too lazy to host my own instance.
I was in a bit of a panic and still am tbh. The main thing is how easy it is to find resources for any hobby or niche interest on there. It's gonna take a long time for any website to catch up the wealth of resources. I still find myself going "site:reddit.com thing I'm searching for" even though I don't interact with reddit itself too much. That's the thing that will hurt most when it's gone. That and the daily music news/discussions since I like to listen to music.
I was one of those kids that found creepy things really cool. Really the one thing I can think of is werewolves. I was scared that I would become a werewolf or some other type of were creature if I got bit. Nowadays I too find that kinda cool.
There's one that's used in the music subs called RoundupForReddit which collects top posts across each of the subs that could be really useful, especially given how many lemmy instances there are.
I never got twitter's appeal. I used tumblr during its prime and twitter just seems like a blander, angrier tumblr. Even the content I like from twitter aren't enough to make an account and throw my voice in a hoard of millions of others.
I grew up during the virtual console era. It was amazing. Just a dollar to buy a game. I bought plenty of old games through it. Now you have to pay monthly 20 dollars on switch online to access the same games they offered for one dollar just a few years earlier. Things like this are why I emulate.
I have a new 3ds with emulated roms, but tbh the emulation on the device can be kinda spotty! My future purchase plans are the deck, especially since the switch is going to be EOL soon. I am too chicken to hack my switch for some reason.
imgchest has a layout that's the most similar to imgur. I use it for archiving my reddit posts and other needs where the "filmstrip" layout would be useful. The rest are quite good too, but don't have a filmstrip layout as far as I am aware.
I think that in itself shows how much killing the api is a bigger deal than how some act it is. Apple is a big company that (presumably) prefers and acknowledges the third party over the mainline app
My favorite while I was using it was Cinnamon due to its simplicity. In the future, it would probably be Budgie, as the pipeline of changes looks really promising and its just as simple as Cinnamon.