Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Yes, definitely.

is that it? should we just quit using these sites or what?

Yes.

Yeah, if you ignore the piece of technology receiving a technological message from another piece of technology which you then view on the piece of technology, I guess there is no technology involved

I feel like if the OP wanted the post on Lemmy, they’d have posted it on Lemmy. There is no benefit to puppeting reddit posts for anyone involved.

I could listen to an hour of him telling me how terrible I am and I’d still love it

Waiting for 0.18.1 seems like the safe, smarter option to me