What did your journey to dumping Reddit look like

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

Same. But I have a specific Reddit that I search once a month because it’s the best aggregator of that info
- I added most of the navigation panels and message inbox stuff to ublock origin and only look at my provincial and municipal subreddits for information that might harm me if I'm unaware of it. Deleted my last account.
  But yeah, the API lockdown was the final nail in the coffin. I was getting banned a lot for not aligning with status quo enforcement already. I saw a front page subreddit successfully ban bots and saw their traffic crater into bedrock instantly which was extremely disturbing. Combination of things.
As soon as Apollo died, I never went back

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.

Snap!

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Hello, fellow Joey enjoyer!

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.

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

Got banned

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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