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?
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 nodded to join me, likely a handful did.
I like it here much better, I can never go back now.
There are communities I enjoy on Reddit so fully committing to Lemmy is a bit hard for me right now. It sucks. 😭
Don’t worry, I think a lot of people are like that!
View content on other sites, post there when you need to, whatever works for you. I try to only post here, unless there is an urgent reason for me to post there.
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I’ve only gotten to use a few custom apps, the API changes didn’t really make sense to me.
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Did you mean to resend that? 😆
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I’ll give it a try then!
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I think I have, right now I’m using Artic though. I’m not getting notifications outside of the clients I use so I don’t know if it’s the app or my phone, I’m on iOS. 😆
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.
Glad to hear that you haven’t made the switch alone!
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.
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.
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.
API exodus-ers unite!
Lemmings from a sinking ship 💪
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.
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.
That’s a great way to put it. I can probably find a community here if I tried hard enough.
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.
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.
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Thanks for that 😆
I never tried
I like the anonymity. No need for my friends to know about lemmy and ask for my user.
Ive been unable to get anyone I know into any part of the fediverse. Nobody wants to deal with federation the way it is now.
A few friends wanted to give it a try, and a few of those are around, I think… I made it a point to avoid learning their usernames, but they send me links from Lemmy from time to time.
It was one of
- they’re very close friends
- I shared a relevant link and they asked about it
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.
Edit: I just think it’s funny that people left because of the API policy. Not to diminish anyone’s preferences but Reddit’s policy change was actually to retain users, run more ads, and probably increase algorithmic engagement and sell content to LLMs. People left as a protest with the belief that it was run by, for, and of the people and that Reddit didn’t understand its core user base. Reddit has only continued to increase its user base and revenue. I’d venture to guess that the core users leaving was actually a benefit to Reddit. Their departure just made it easier for Reddit to accomplish their goals.
It would be relatively easy for me to convince some people to come to Lemmy if the Spanish-speaking community were a little bigger. For the moment I will have to be patient and wait for more people to come naturally.
