For me, the realization of how toxic Reddit can be combined with how lost in the crowd I felt was enough. I enjoy the smaller feel to the communities and that I can actually have a conversation instead of getting buried in comments was just the right combo.

Reddit banned all the subreddits I actually enjoyed so I stopped participating altogether. It’s helpful to recognize that reddit’s structure leads to total stagnation in the content. I haven’t been active for years, but I still end up on a reddit thread from time to time to get answers to questions that Google should be answering (that’s another topic altogether) and I see the same stake jokes being made, the same arguments being had, the same mediocre insights from the same dull people, and it makes me so glad that I left. I don’t begrudge younger people going through the process of figuring out how to engage with the world, but I also don’t want to participate.

I just don’t care for Reddit, or it’s redditisms.

The API blackout. I said when blackout I’d quit, and I did.

Look at the quality of the posts.

When I open Reddit it’s just the most vacuous drivel. It’s not enjoyable or entertaining at all. There is no depth or substance.

The majority of the communities I visit on reddit have no real equivalent on Lemmy. The only things in Lemmy are politics, open source, linux, android, anti ai, immediate downvote of the majority of news, etc.

Lemmy feels more like an individual community rather than a real platform, like lobste.rs with more emphasis on politics.

I deleted my account and the app

I left reddit in 2020, it was just very toxic at that point. scrubbed my account and uninstalled the app. Hexbear was standalone for a long time, so being part of the lemmyverse is a nice horizon broadener. Beyond that, when I’m bored and want to scroll, I check out rednote to see what the rest of the world is up to

Participating has really helped. I’m still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.

Build the platform you want to be part of.

The censorship on reddit sickened me. I felt like I was being brainwashed scrolling through the feed. One day I just couldn’t tolerate it any longer and like that I was free

I missed the quantity of content on reddit, but I do not miss the quality of replies on reddit.

I just stopped using reddit. I was so mad about having my 12 year old account perm banned for talking shit about Nazis I swore the entire place off.

Join a bunch of communities that you may be interested in to fill up your feed with a bunch of stuff to read. That way, if you want to take a break and read stuff, you can look here rather than on Reddit. You can look for communities here that are a close match to what you had on Reddit. Over time, you can dial them in and hopefully not feel the need to go back to Reddit.

I never go back and just to read Reddit. I only go there if a web search looking for something in particular takes me there.

Was already a Linux user and tech nerd

I decided I was done with reddit. I never used apps so I just signed out of my account and never went back.