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?
I like the anonymity. No need for my friends to know about lemmy and ask for my user.
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.
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.
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.
api changes breaking my ad free client (reddit is fun) got me to leave. never going back
I see, I’ve heard of Rif. I moderate a few communities so I could maybe see if they’d want to move…? Probably not though. Boooo.
just leave them. i thought I would miss some of my communities. but I don’t at all… and the toxic right wing propaganda doesn’t make the front page ever.
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.
Apollo ended so bye bye Reddit. Never looked back.
I’ve only gotten to use a few custom apps, the API changes didn’t really make sense to me.
Try Voyager app on Lemmy. 👌🏼
