Reddit dropped a lot in quality after that. I suspect a lot of people stopped posting, even if they did continue using it in some capacity.

I uninstalled it from my phone entirely. Definitely helped curb my usage.

That was certainly my experience. I got rid of the app and only used reddit in browser mode to read without participating. The noticeable quality drop after the migration, as well as all the artificial hurdles they put up to force you back on the app eventually made me stop using it entirely.

Platforms lose momentum when these events strike, and momentum loss is the death knell for social platforms. Reddit's missteps have put it on a downward spiral. They may hang on, even for an impressively long time, but recovery from this point is very difficult and usually involves transforming or re-forming the vision.

It can be done. It takes the right leaders. Most are unfit for this particular challenge.

For me, I just stopped using Reddit. Turns out that I’m happier without it.

Hah I did the same thing. I only ever interact with it now when it appears in search results.

In the attention economy, you rarely become obsolete overnight. It's a more gradual shift of user focused being spent other places.

That's not what happened with the X nonsense, a lot of people went to mastadon/bluesky.

I moved to Lemmy and it reminds me of 2006 era Reddit

In a good 'niche forums and quirky local cultures' type of way, or in the annoying epic bacon kind of way?

I was going to add "without the epic bacon narwhal" shit but opted to let that meme die forever

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...