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.

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.

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 modded to join me, likely a handful did.

I like it here much better, I can never go back now.

Apollo ended so bye bye Reddit. Never looked back.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.