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I got ready when they announced the API shutdown, then kind of cold turkey indeed

I logged out and just don't log back in. Sometimes I'll find a link there or a reference, and I'll instinctively click the "reply" or upvote button, but it will ask me to log in, and I remember I don't want to do that.

It looked like me getting banned permanently for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and I was like "Wow so reddit is pro-nazi huh?" and I never looked back.

Almost cold turkey after the API shutdown.

I still use some technical subs like sysadmin, cisco and Fortinet for work purposes.

Everything else I use Lemmy for.

I wrote a very well formatted and evidence-based letter on my subreddit detailing grievances and why the website will die given time

The response was something like: "Don't let the door hit you on the way out"

Some people don't learn unless they're personally eating crow

When I realized I was in complete opposition with what they wanted to do with our content, I posted a last message on my profile stating why I left and where one could find me. And I left.

Did something just happen? I'm browsing new and this is like the fourth post I've seen about it. Way more than usual.

Got banned for suggesting child predators be punished more harshly by the courts. They said I was inciting violence against a protected class. I said no way a human decided that, must be AI. So I appealed and they upheld it. Said fuck it, they were doing me a favor. Uninstalled the app.

Totally could turkey quit when bacon reader stopped working at API shutdown. Good riddance.

RIF warned that it was going to stop working, so I started using Voyager instead. By the time the API changes actually went through I was already set up and ready to go.

These days I only use Reddit (in browser) for 2-3 communities that don’t have a big enough Lemmy equivalent yet, like r/NFL, and I don’t actively engage there at all - no upvotes, no comments, just read-only.

Got banned

Cold turkey after the api-geddon I think. Definitely cold turkey but I’ve lost track of which shitty abusive decision finally sealed the deal. I have not looked back and miss nothing.

I never had an issue with reddit. Once the glorious leader started talking about annexing Canada I joined the rest of my brothers and sisters and got the hell out of dodge. I thought I'd give up the message boards entirely but it was reddit that showed me lemmy.ca.

basically just using old reddit until i was banned for my comments being seen as promoting violence and racism. comments about real world events. apparently reporting that someone assaulted or raped someone is promotion asasult and rape now.

I used one of the less popular clients, Joey, so after the API bullshit went into effect I didn't really notice much for a while. But I did begin checking out alternatives, and that's when I saw Lemmy mentioned.

Then one day Joey stopped working, and it coincided with an announcement from the devs that they were affected by the API stuff, so I decided pretty quickly to pull the plug.

I logged in via desktop and checked if there were any saved links or similar I wanted to keep. I then logged onto the discord for one of the subreddits I frequented the most often, let them know that my favorite dinosaur was Triceratops (long story short, that's how people knew I was leaving for good), and told everyone goodbye.

I then manually redacted a few personal posts and deleted my account.

Was using Infinity. They shut down the API. I left, haven't been back other than for search results.

One day bacon reader worked, the next it didn't.

Did a search for alternatives and ended up here.

I see some reddit content when I Google stuff, but that's it.

Dunno. Just never felt a need to create a user account there. I dumped Reddit before our relationship even began.

I've never used a Reddit client in my life (aside from the web interface, and that I didn't even use on a phone, just on a keyboard/mouse interface). But when they fucked over app users, I quit out of solidarity.

Though how far Reddit had its head up it's own ass with regard to blockchain/NFT bullshit was a significant contributing factor as well.

And Reddit killing its API also happened not long after WotC tried to fuck over D&D players with their OGL1.1 bullshit. The community response is what got WotC to back down on that, and I was drunk enough on that victory to believe that quitting Reddit would do something positive. (Mind you, WotC didn't learn their lesson. They sent the Pinkertons after one of their own innocent customers because... well because they're WotC, apparently.)

I pretty much went from using Reddit daily but grumbling about them to quitting Reddit and signing up for Lemmy over the course of less than a day. My "journey" was extremely quick.

The one community I probably miss most is /r/bestoflegaladvice. Lemmy just doesn't have the amount of engagement to make that a possibility here. There used to be a /c/bestoflegaladvice somewhere, but it was literally just reposts from Reddit. And engaging with that seemed incongruent with the aims of my Reddit boycott.

I lurked before there were subreddits. Only ever used the site. Had an account for fifteen years, right up until the API debacle, which started as a protest and became the last straw. I was unhappy with the site for years before that, thanks to, y'know, fascism.

I had Lemmy picked as the best-looking alternative, around the time reddit blocking meant 'you can't see me, you're locked out of this thread, you can't edit your comment, I get the last word for free, and the site will lie about why nothing works suddenly.'

I initially went to LW... but enforced civility is a failure of moderation, and uneven enforcement is downright intolerable.

I visit Reddit once or twice a week for a closed, private group of friends. I have dropped a whole list of subreddits that I once visited regularly.

Used it out of necessity more than enjoyment. Plenty of vices in their community's culture that bothered me and that here can be more easily oxygenated, and also if a community is not of my liking, here it's easier to find alternatives. So when I learned of the alternative, I could easily see the potential past any movement, and thus jumping was pretty seamless.

Also the engines then, ~2 years back, were pretty jank. But for my needs, the one I picked, Kbin (RIP) was just enough jank to be a "does the job", and so allowing me to use scripts and filters to improve them my way.