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?

  • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    28 days ago

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

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    27 days 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.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    8·
    27 days ago

    … toxic behavior on other platforms …

    … others to join you …

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

  • Anissem@lemmy.ml
    6·
    28 days 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.

  • NONE@lemmy.world
    6·
    28 days ago

    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.

  • Bell@lemmy.world
    22·
    28 days 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. 🕸️@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      28 days 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.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    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.

  • Samuel Proulx@rblind.comEnglish
    7·
    28 days ago

    Yes and no. I left during the API drama and the blackout. First, moving communities wholesale just never works. Community archives don’t migrate, the affordances are different from site to site, etc. That’s why we (speaking for all the folks who run the ourblind.com set of communities) run a Reddit, a Discord, and of course the rblind.com Lemmy. The members and culture are wildly different between the three. And that’s fine. Though because of moderation issues, these days all posts to /r/blind need approval, and sometimes approval can take a day or more. However, Reddit’s decision to exempt the accessibility focused clients (Luna and Dystopia) that most blind folks use meant that a lot of blind people preferred to stay on Reddit, especially those who just consume content from other communities.

    Second, creating a home for a new community, and doing it properly, takes a lot of time and effort! It’s taken us over a year to get the server infrastructure for rblind.com to a place I’m happy with. We had almost a week of downtime a while back, and until recently email delivery was extremely dodgy. While those things are fixed now, we’re still in process of creating a custom (more accessible) theme for our Lemmy. So even over a year later, I would still consider the rblind.com Lemmy to be in an alpha state. Signups are more than welcome, but we’re not actively working to push people over from elsewhere. Despite that, we’ve got a couple active daily users (mostly in off-site communities), folks make regular posts to our main community from Mastodon, and we’ve got a couple hundred registered users. It took the Reddit about five years to really take off, and even the Discord took a couple years before it started popping. So I’m happy for Lemmy to slowly build at its own pace, into whatever it decides to become, without trying to make it a clone of Reddit or something else, or forcing the existing communities to move over.

    As well, of course, if Reddit does decide to cut off the accessible clients, or do something else that makes it completely screen reader inaccessible, our Lemmy means that no single service can hold our community hostage. Unlike when the API stuff happened, now we wouldn’t be in the position of racing to find a new home. We’ve got somewhere that’s mostly built and ready for people to move in when they need it.

  • JWBananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    28 days ago

    I just go where Sync goes.

    Sync basically was Reddit to me. And now Sync goes to Lemmy. So here I am.