I’m ready to step away from Reddit. I know you can encounter toxic behavior on other platforms too, but I’m just exhausted by the level of negativity there. So, I have two questions for those who have fully transitioned — What prompted your decision to leave? And were you able to get others to join you on Lemmy?

  • @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

    My reasons were as you said, toxicity and Reddit’s decision to screw over developers and its users. Never tried to bring someone over. The user base is smaller but it’s almost like going from a loud room of shouting assholes to a small gathering of people that tire of the noise. Haven’t looked back once.

  • @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    117 months ago

    I left during the blackout. I occasionally mention it if I’m taking about a post or article, but haven’t tried to get anyone to join. I’m pretty ok that there are just a few million of us.

    • dawn. 🕸️OP
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      57 months ago

      That’s a great way to put it. I can probably find a community here if I tried hard enough.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        Post on the general communities and if it takes off, consider a separate community. It’s sort of like being out in the world and finding people with common interests.

  • @[email protected]
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    17 months ago

    I told people about lemmy but they think reddit still works.

    We should all be more concerned with how we are going to get people off discord. That is used by even non gamers a ton in my area.

  • Scrubbles
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    307 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      107 months ago

      Don’t know why, probably some psychological reasoning, but if I show I’m _too_ excited about something they’ll actively avoid it.

      I have this feeling too. I think that is because I’m not cool, people don’t want to do the things that the not cool guy is doing.

  • povario
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    47 months ago

    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. 🥲

  • fmstrat
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    87 months ago

    … toxic behavior on other platforms …

    … others to join you …

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

  • JWBananas
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    I just go where Sync goes.

    Sync basically was Reddit to me, for over a decade. And now Sync goes to Lemmy. So here I am.

  • @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

    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.

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    217 months ago

    10+ years on Reddit and I could not stand what the API changes were going to do, on top of totally hating the experience without an app.

    None of my friends were even on Reddit so no problem with them not being on Lemmy ಠ_ಠ

    Lemmy feels alot like Reddit in 2012 so I’m hopeful.

    • dawn. 🕸️OP
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      77 months ago

      On one custom app I used, I think they made it so you can hide a comment completely from view but I also think regular Reddit hasn’t gotten better at that as well.

  • nocturne
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    157 months ago

    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.

    • Jeena
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      67 months ago

      For me it was/is exactly the same. I’ve not been using reddit a lot anyway but once I heard about Lemmy I was very quick to move around the API disaster. I also don’t know anyone from reddit so I didn’t have a desire to convince anyone.

      I spread the news around in my other networks and I think 2 people joined lemmy, but they would have joined without me advocating for it anyway probably.

    • dawn. 🕸️OP
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      I knew of Lemmy before the API exodus, but I didn’t really have a reason to move as I didn’t really use the custom apps. Just with the nastiness of some Redditors, Reddit’s been losing it’s appeal to me, but I’m clinging onto the app for some friends I have there. Hmm.