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 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.
You have to wait to be approved…
This is what I like about Lemmy!
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.
… toxic behavior on other platforms …
… others to join you …
Uhh, no? Lemmy is better because of the community that is already here.
100% my reasoning too. Secretly hope it never gets popular.
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.
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.
I never tried
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’ve been here for 5 years but the end of Apollo was the end of Reddit for me. Fuck that noise.
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
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.
That’s how I feel too. I’m mostly committed to Lemmy, to the point where I even deleted my Reddit account, but I also still lurk in a few, like /r/SWTOR, /r/JPEGXL, /r/trans, and /r/ChangeMyView.
There are communities for the latter three, but the JPEG-XL one is just a mirror community, the Trans one is not quite as active (still decent AFAICT), and the top CMV one I can find has a little over 100 subscribers so pretty dead.
I’m only familiar with the Change My View sub!
Yeah, JPEGXL is a pretty awesome (tho still very new) image format and I like to keep compatibility advances for it in mind, /r/trans is, well, a community for trans people, and /r/swtor is for the community surrounding the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.
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. 👌🏼
Did you mean to resend that? 😆
No, my mistake. Try Voyager again. I love it. The servers are going through upgrades right now on Lemmy so you may experience some delays.
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. 😆
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?
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.
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.
People who think like this suck honestly.
Realized I replied to the same comment. 🤣
Wow! So it is true, I often hear that people don’t like pushers.
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.
