I’ve been here for 5 years but the end of Apollo was the end of Reddit for me. Fuck that noise.

My decision to leave was due to the prevalence of misinformation and / or entirely unrelated comments being upvoted to the top. Fuck that place. It’s just an alternate to Facebook now.

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I like the anonymity. No need for my friends to know about lemmy and ask for my user.

Back when this whole API thing happened, I didn’t bother because I knew that almost nobody would listen to me as my account was fairly young and only had a small amount of that karma bullshit.

I left because I do a lot in my power to avoid seeing ads on sites/apps. Also, when I heard that it would cost a prohibitively expensive amount for a certain app (don’t remember which) to use the API and heard that unofficial mod tools for things like helping people with sight disabilities mod were gonna disappear, I dipped because I cannot support that type of stuff.

What prompted your decision to leave?

I had been looking for an alternative to Reddit for a while, but heard about Lemmy during the API Exodus of ‘23.

were you able to get others to join you on Lemmy?

I did not try. I know no one on Reddit personally except one of my customers. I have told him in person about Lemmy, but I do not think he would join. I co-modded a sub and the other mod supposedly went to beehaw. But again not someone I knew personally.

What prompted your decision to leave?

The API thing last year was my last straw. Finally killing off the last of the “we totally love our users” bit and changing it to a very profit-focused platform was the indication it was time. It wasn’t until after I left did I realize what a toll it was taking on my mental health.

were you able to get others to join you on Lemmy?

Tried, but it didn’t stick. Learned that people will move over naturally. I talk about it if people ask me why I’m not on Reddit, but I never push or actively encourage. I learned that only makes people less likely to try it. Don’t know why, probably some psychological reasoning, but if I show I’m too excited about something they’ll actively avoid it.

The API debacle got me to leave, I had become fond of Infinity for reddit, and saw there was a fork for Lemmy called eternity.

I implored a sub I modded to join me, likely a handful did.

I like it here much better, I can never go back now.

I couldn’t stand not using a custom app for Reddit because it is just so bad. I’m a nerd too so that made moving here easier.

As for getting others to move here, not yet. 🥲

I’m not going to try prying people I know from their comfort zone. If they want to be on Facebook, fine, be on Facebook. If they want to stay on Shitter, stay on Shitter. If they want to be on Reddit .etc .etc

The reason I left reddit, multiple times, was because of the inexcusable amount of toxicity. It got so bad, that I couldn’t complain about my work anymore on a subreddit meant for people who complain about their work. Nothing is done about trolls, they’ll happily stalk you, you block one bastard, another makes an alt in seconds to resume.

And spez continues sitting there with his stupid braindead grin on his face, doing fuck all to just do ONE simple thing to prevent it - retool the registration. See, Lemmy trolls can’t get away with treating the registration as if it was a machine gun for alts, least not as readily as Reddit’s. You have to wait to be approved, you have to make expendable e-mails and there’s a bit of time at play here.

… toxic behavior on other platforms …

… others to join you …

Uhh, no? Lemmy is better because of the community that is already here.

API debacle. Relay went paid.

Added some features I was missing in lemmy mobile to Thunder, and been happy since.

One friend, my sister, and dad, also got lemmy accounts when I told them about it.

I came in 2023 when they shut down the API. I did this because RIF is how I see Reddit and Reddit’s app sucks. There is a lot of ideological stuff associated with my decision but ultimately that’s not what drove me.

No, I haven’t been able to get people to join me, but I haven’t really tried. The friends that I know used RIF just switched to the official Reddit app. (One even likes it better.) I don’t mind because we never interacted on Reddit. I only know they had accounts, not their names. We chat on other apps.

There’s a lot of people I know and don’t want here.

I mentioned it to my friends a couple of times, but I couldn’t offer a reason to move when they are happy with Reddit.

At the moment, there isn’t enough content unique to Lemmy, except for unix_surrealism. I post my favourite Surrealism posts to work channels and hope people are interested enough that they stick around.