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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 โ€” What prompted your decision to leave? And were you able to get others to join you on Lemmy?

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[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

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.