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Out of all the platforms to leave, leaving Reddit was ridiculously easy. There's zero lock in. I don't care about preserving my post history. My account is not connected to my real life. My conversations were with strangers. Deleting my account meant nothing to me and I was using Reddit since the very beginning.
It's not like Facebook where some events are only there and there are some people I can only contact there, and it's not like email where I have all my accounts connected to it and all my contacts have that address. Reddit had literally zero lock in for me. I'm not missing it one bit. Lemmy has fulfilled everything I got from Reddit. Only issues is that it's unstable from all the new load but so was Reddit when I first switched to that.
The hardest part of leaving reddit is the niche communities it fostered. If you could think of a topic there’s probably a fairly active subreddit (or two) following it. But that existed before reddit in the form of BBBs and lemmy looks to have a great path to recreate that.
The only thing reddit has ATM is users. Losing them is a huge blow to their value.