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.

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

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

Apollo ended so bye bye Reddit. Never looked back.

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

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.

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.

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.

I never tried

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. 🥲

… toxic behavior on other platforms …

… others to join you …

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

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.

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.

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.

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.