I’d like to think it was my indignation at the API changes affecting 3rd party developers and horrible abuses of moderator privelige, but I think in my heart I know it was really just because RIF was going to stop working and I hate the official app.

I left before the API fiasco because I was addicted. Had a brief, beautiful couple of months away from platforms like reddit. Now addicted to Lemmy instead.

Apollo was rip.

Also out of principle.

The API changes didn’t really have an effect on me since I had always used the official Reddit app, and only switched to Apollo a week before the blackout. The reason I left is because Reddit’s response was really out of touch and insulting to its users. After coming to the fediverse I realised just how horrible Reddit has become and I don’t plan on going back.

It became more and more disgusting. The API changes do not affect me at all but I took the opportunity and deleted my account there. Part out of protest, part out of not liking nowadays Reddit anymore.

I took a break because of the blackout. I swore the site off forever when I saw Spez’s response to the blackout.

I never really liked it much - too many assholes, astroturfers and bots - so I was always open to moving somewhere else, as soon as I found somewhere I liked better. And I liked the threadiverse better.

I barely used Reddit at all, but I started using Lemmy as soon as I heard it existed. My reason for not using Reddit is primarily because it has ads but also because I don’t want to contribute to a platform that benefits financially with free user content.

Didn’t want to use their bloated app, really.

I had wanted to quit before then, so their war on third-party developers just helped that along.

They killed my favourite third party app, Apollo. That and Lemmy showed me an even better alternative.

Because almost everyone on that site is a toxic piece of transphobic shit. There’s only so many kinds of microaggressions you can take every day before you decide to move to someplace else. I wish society would deal with places like that and throw people in jail that enable these assholes to be like that.

I started using Lemmy a bit before the blackout and all that fun stuff. I was using both before the blackout, then just Lemmy during, and I realized I had a lot more free time and was enjoying the posts on Lemmy more, so I just stayed here full time.

They killed third party apps and I’m not letting the official Reddit app within a mile of my phone.

I was already looking for the exit for a long time, when the API changes came I saw my chance to escape.