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I mentioned it to my friends a couple of times, but I couldn't offer a reason to move when they are happy with Reddit.
At the moment, there isn't enough content unique to Lemmy, except for unix_surrealism. I post my favourite Surrealism posts to work channels and hope people are interested enough that they stick around.
It would be relatively easy for me to convince some people to come to Lemmy if the Spanish-speaking community were a little bigger. For the moment I will have to be patient and wait for more people to come naturally.
There's a lot of people I know and don't want here.
Reddit blocks tor
Lemmy allows tor
I prefer to minimize the possibility of crazy internet stalkers (and government agents)
Lemmy is better
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.
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 โ23.
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.
API exodus-ers unite!
Lemmings from a sinking ship ๐ช
For me it was/is exactly the same. I've not been using reddit a lot anyway but once I heard about Lemmy I was very quick to move around the API disaster. I also don't know anyone from reddit so I didn't have a desire to convince anyone.
I spread the news around in my other networks and I think 2 people joined lemmy, but they would have joined without me advocating for it anyway probably.