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I didn't leave reddit. I'll still be there after everything's all said and done.

However, I tried their app years ago. It was garbage. Once July 1st rolls around, I'll just use old.reddit.com or RES to use their site. I do most of my reading/posting using boost though, so I'll be using reddit less than before. Once those options go, then I don't see myself using reddit any longer.

I've been a tildes and hacker news user for a few years at this point. If this migration attempt means anything to me, it's to diversify even more. So I'm checking out Lemmy and kbin and I went back to slashdot.

I haven't wiped my accounts of comments and posts yet, but intend to do so on June 30th, then delete them. I'll still browse old.reddit.com until that goes away, then I'm out. Their new UI sucks, their first party app sucks... I just want a link aggregator and comment section that is purely text based. Lemmy is that.

Corporate greed has got a real bad stench , and I am not about that life. I will be on reddit until one day I am so use to opening Lemmy instead , until then I guess I will never truly leave reddit.

I originally left back during the pedo admin stuff

I haven't fully left yet. I'll probably hang onto my account for a bit.

I liken it to a train wreck. I'm so pissed at /u/spez and the decline of the site, but I still KINDA wanna see where it goes.

I´ve been feeling like leaving reddit for a while. It has been going down hill in almost every possible way. The main thing keeping me was that all the people and content were there but I´m hoping now enough people are leaving so that there is content and people elsewhere (here).

Smells of a crusting company trying to sit on its laurels and work for itself rather than support its communities.

Like many others in the past few days, because of their recent decisions. Plus i am a huge fan of FOSS, so knowing that Lemmy is a good federated open source alternative, it is a big plus compared to Reddit.

It was already going the way of Facebook and Twitter for years. I stuck it out because there wasn't any better option. Each time Reddit admins did something stupid and caused chaos, I considered leaving. But the API issue is another level. It's a death blow to anything that's good about the place, and locks in the dystopian future spez and current redditors are choosing.

I also haven't quite left yet, but I've been feeling for a long time that the quality of reddit is going down. I've been heavily using reddit since around 2011, and maybe this is just my rose colored nostalgia glasses, but I felt like pre-2016 and the T_D era, I was much more engaged in interesting conversation on various topics, and nowadays I mainly just mindlessly surf r/all looking at memes and what not, and only very rarely find those really interesting in-depth threads that I feel like used to be more common. Additionally, it feels like reddit is growing increasingly more corporate, I remember when you would often see r/hailcorporate links under anything that even vaguely hinted at astroturfed advertising, and now you see not so subtle ads disguised as posts everywhere (and I don't mean the ones coming from reddit). I'm hoping that I can find that old reddit feel here, and I'm currently really enjoying the excitement of discovering something new, even the apprehension of navigating a platform I don't fully understand. I don't want to sound elitist, but I'm hoping the barrier to entry prevents Lemmy from growing too quickly and becoming like reddit all over again, but not so much that this exodus dies like others have in the past.

Cos I am petty!