I stopped using reddit, and started using lemmy. It's not hard.

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.

Did you consider the feelings of the nazis before talking shit about them? They are very sensitive, you know.

Lemmy doesn't have most of the communities I need, so I still end up using Reddit a lot and sometimes other sites/forums. I use Lemmy for casual browsing though because Reddit's main subs are complete ass and the politics on Lemmy and its focus on Linux discussion is a lot better.

Consider making one or two of those communities. There's no shame in sourcing articles/content from reddit and posting it here (direcelt links to source, not links to reddit) . A post or two every few days will quickly round up others.

Use a script to rewrite your messages into word salad.

Then get yourself permbanned.

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

Using summit

Pretty easy when they took away my favorite app and tried to force me into their ad-riddled POS - along with their hostile treatment and shuttering of subs that didn’t conform. It was already getting to the point that, after a decade plus of being a “redditor”, the place was wearing thin. The constant reposts and karma whoring, the hive mind, the low-hanging fruit of quips getting the most upvotes vs a well-thought out reply, the shills and bots, they were killing Reddit IMO. The action against third party apps was the final straw.

I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.

They perm-banned me and I kept getting pissed off when I would want to reply to something.

Get yourself permabanned on Reddit.

I came over here when they cut off 3rd party apps. I wasn't going to browse reddit without Boost, and theres a Boost app for Lemmy, so staying here was easy. I have gone back to reddit twice since, and both times were to check if GeForce Now was broken or if the problem was on my end. Unfortunately Nvidia is pretty terrible at keeping people updated when something is wrong with GFN, so the GFN subreddit is really the only way to find out what's going on. If I found an active GeForce Now community here I'd never go back.

I kinda had to accept that Lemmy wouldn't have the same hooks to trigger impulsive scrolling because Lemmy isn't a corporation desperate to mine you for every ounce of data you can provide.

Also took me a while to find a group of communities with content I like.

I sometimes reinstall Reddit just see what's happening over there, whenever I open it, it feels like I'm being inundated with ads, both obviously and via the ingenuine comment threads.

I love when I see the same article posted in both places. The comment sections are vastly different. I feel better knowing it's actual people here.
This is it. Lemmy just isn't designed the same as reddit and its gonna take a bit for you to find and explore different communities on here before your feed has a steady flow of new stuff, and even then it won't be as much as reddit.

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.

For me, it's the fact that while I dont always see eye to eye with the people here the fact is every account is almost certainly an actual person and not a bot. I want to hear other's experiences and perspectives and Reddit will not provide that.

I also like the fact that there is an end to the content here. It's not endless scrolling.

This is the thing I notice the most whenever I check back into reddit. So much bot & ai bullshit.
I also agree with u/Xylight@lemdro.id that several of the subs I subscribed to have no equivalent here yet.
- That’s true there are no replacements for many subs and you just have to ask yourself how much you need them.

Was already a Linux user and tech nerd

I've found my twin.
- Yo? Wassup man I love you

In the beginning, I wanted to go back to reddit so much. But then I remembered what a shitstain company reddit is, and I reminded myself of that. Now I don't even WANT to go back to reddit. Fuck them.

Back when reddit banned 3rd party apps, I just left. My account is still there, once in a while I check something on reddit instead of lemmy due to number of people.

Despite having some good karma and many years, I never felt like reddit "had" anything I'd miss by leaving. You know the "just go outside and touch grass" thing? Literally just leave the place for a week, uninstall any apps, block the site on /etc/hosts, make it enough of an annoyance to sidestep your own blocks and it'll help you.

I never really posted on reddit. The apps I used to lurk all stopped working to one degree or another, and more and more of the content on reddit is just bots karma farming with AI slop and reposts.

Made it pretty easy to stop going there.

It’s been 2 years on Lemmy for me. I was on Reddit for 12 years prior.

I never looked back. I didn’t have a hard time at all really. Comment sections are so nice here usually. I only spend maybe 30 mins on here daily and never run out of content. But I’m a reader. I read articles and comments fully so I only get through a dozen posts or so.

What are you having a hard time with?

For me the content is just not quite there on Lemmy. Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities. I wish Lemmy became a lot more popular because Reddit is firmly in an enshittification phase.
The moment old.reddit.com is gone, I'm done with it.
- Embrace the fact that there is a limit to the amount of new content and do something else with your time.
- Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities
  Once you realize that 1) like 80% of reddit is just bot slop and 2) a handful of accounts post the majority of "content", you kind of don't care that reddit has seemingly "more active" communities.

For me, it's the fact that while I dont always see eye to eye with the people here the fact is every account is almost certainly an actual person and not a bot. I want to hear other's experiences and perspectives and Reddit will not provide that.

I also like the fact that there is an end to the content here. It's not endless scrolling.

What are you missing?

It was quote easy tbh. It imoroved since the First Wave actually.

Also people are more honest and caring from my pov. That doesnt gonfor everyone, but thats society.

It feels more Home than what reddit became.

It was straight up half broken during the APIcalypse when I came over.

My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me

Same for me. When the third party API fiasco happened, Reddit was dead to me.
If I can't engage on my terms, I don't want to engage at all

Sort by top 24 hours and theres much more activity than any of the sorting algorithms.

I do this as well. Works great for both serving me the most interesting content and limiting how much time I spend on Lemmy.
- Oh I use the “auto hide read posts” feature of Voyager so the posts are always fresh. With that combination of settings Lemmy has enough content to spend a few hours every day on if you want to haha.

yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I'm thinking I'll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)
Fellow 2 year 3 month lemmy user, your anger nourishes my soul.
- My how time flies. Reddit was already trash at that point, it was mostly habit keeping me going there, but I think it's gotten a lot worse. Either that or I forgot just how bad it was.
- Wow, has it really been that long?

Subscribe to communities and/or utilize the 'random' search to find communities (be warned that nsfw stuff up though if your setting isnt filtered). Sort by new sometimes. Lemmy is more user-directed whereas reddit is company-directed. No more force-feeding you sponsored content - you can search out and eat what you like!

I really want some of my niche subreddits. They're like crack.
Obligatory fuck spez.
- Yeah, Lemmy isn’t quite at that critical mass where the niche stuff is active. That’s one thing Reddit was truly wonderful at, because it had enough people that even the niche stuff stayed active. Like if only 0.01% of people are interested in something, and a service only has 1000 users, there‘s a good chance that you’ll be the only poster.
- I've found some super cool niche communities using the 'random community' search, which i think is a Voyager app specific option cause I'm not seeing it on desktop. I definitely recommend the Voyager app

If you're feeling the itch for more social media just keep it off the corp owned stuff, piefed, mastodon, etc. If it's for news and current events rss feeds are great for that.

my itch is for thoughful debate and discussion... usually on place I find it anymore is podcasts. i miss being able to participate in it, but reddit was great for it years ago. social media basically is anti-thoughtful because it all designs to appeal to raw emotions and bias confirmation.

I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.

I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.

Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.

Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it's not complete trash, you're getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let's people know they're being seen.

Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there's no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.
- I hate this phrase. There are several algorithms. There's new, hot, rising, etc. There's no company manipulating content discovery. That's the difference. Algorithms are great. For-profit companies with an incentive to control content is bad.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it's not complete trash, you're getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let's people know they're being seen.
Oh hell yeah, me too. I browse all a lot (sometimes sorted by scaled) and even if something isn't for me, if it seems like something others would like, it's getting an upvote.

Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).

I don't browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.

Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It's been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I've stayed away from them.
But also I use the web mostly, and "switching" on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It's sad that many folks who use the Internet don't understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.

I didn't, really. Barely ever used Reddit to begin with. I just wanted a platform to chat and engage with every now and then, and this federated, decentralized alternative is principally superior and is a historical necessity. The reason you "struggle" is because Reddit wants to keep you trapped in its ecosystem and addicted by centralizing online communication spaces.

Already wrote this somewhere else, but might well share it here: Reddit is a cesspool US deep state cut-out propaganda and censorship platform like all of these US-based platforms are, they answer to the US state dept and empire and we all know it. Doesn’t matter if it’s META, X or Reddit (and fuck, Google and YouTube obviously) - they all follow the same line. They’ll crack down on leftist subs, even r/russia due to the official US position, yet keep racist Western subs around (like r/europe) and other liberal shitholes of all kinds I don’t give a shit to even name or remember, even fascist subs and of course the genocide apologists on r/“israel”.

I just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I'll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don't go there intentionally.

Unfortunately Sync has been abandoned, so you might want to look for a new app soon.
- That's sad. I'll keep using it until it stops functioning. Don't like my cheese moving unless it has to

They killed RiF, and I wasn't about to use their shitty app.

Honestly, after some time, I just started realizing how shitty reddit posts are, and specially how toxic comments and the overall environment is...

So, i don't miss it.

It gets easier when Reddit bans you for debunking bot comments.

that or pointing out viral marketing posts.

The way I switched was getting banned from Reddit for 7 days wrongly. It then took me two days or 3 days to get unbanned and for them to apologize for the original band. By then I said fuck it and decided to come over here and search for alternatives since I've been on Reddit for like 16 years now or something like that and it's getting a little old and repetitive. Then fortunate part about this place is that there's not enough post and so it's a lot of repetition. But it also allows me to go visit other sites because there is so much repetition here.

don't worry. if you go back to reddit you'll get banned again in a few months anyway for the same reasons.
this place is rapidly become reddit though... same folks who who just want to harass and ban anyone whose comments they disagree with. good news is here you can see someone falling you around downvoting all your comments and block them.
at least people aren't sending me PMs constantly on this site about how i should die and/or trying to get me to sub to their onlyfans. for now.

RIF stopped working so I started using Liftoff for Lemmy instead.

Don't really use the desktop site.

Same except Jerboa
- I now use Voyager because the liftoff Dev had twin kids and naturally they take priority.

At first I was petty. Now I have other things to do with my time so Lemmy has more than enough content.

The API charade was more than enough to push me over. At that point, I was banned multiple times because that platform had become a cesspool of its own toxicity. You just couldn't escape it for long, no matter where you posted. When you got people dogpiling you just for complaining about work in a subreddit where it is completely warranted and acceptable to do it in, then that's a problem.

I wasn't going to install the app on my phone, so that made the transition easier.

just deleted my account and all reddit apps. quit cold turkey. there's less on Lemmy. but I'm happier, and more productive 🙂

Same here, I forced myself away from that platform. Took me a few weeks to get settled and find all the right communities, but it worked out well!

I stopped using reddit when I realized most of it's content was sponsored.

I got banned for "inciting violence" even though I never really did, but it could be construed that way so, here I am. I still go lurk as some content you can't find over here, but I do enjoy the differences. I'm learning a whole lot about Linux and ditching the mega tech corpo bs.

Similar story here. Fourteen years with only a one day suspension from r/ politics for telling an asshat “you are a child.” Then suddenly warned for “inciting violence” for saying “sometimes you have to punch the bully in the nose.” I appealed, it was denied, deleted everything and asserted my right to be forgotten as an EU person. I quit almost all American software in January of this year and moved to Linux.

Cold turkey basically.

Just like Reddit, you have to add your personalized subs before you can really start enjoying it. Start looking for subs you like.

The bottom line is that there isn't enough content to last all day like Reddit, but I see that as a good thing. I wrap up on Lemmy and then I can dig myself into a Wikipedia hole and learn something.

Best part about Lemmy is my comments actually get seen and responded to and it can take a couple days before a post is dead, unlike Reddit where if I comment 4 hours after it's posted, it's dead and there's no activity on my comments.

Reddit feels like I'm a dog hanging out a car window trying to bite at the air as it whips past me but never getting anything of substance. Lemmy feels like I'm in an AA support group and we're all sitting in a circle communicating and sharing our addiction together.

WELCOME!

Voyager’s mentioned but unlinked so here ya go, it’s great!

https://vger.app/

Ditto. Voyager is as close to the AlienBlue experience as I’ve seen.

It took some time for me to realize that not finding a continuous stream of new content was a feature and not a flaw. It meant that there was no algorithm feeding me an endless stream of crap in hopes of keeping me glued to the screen. It meant I could close the app and move on with my day and check back much later. That realization made me embrace it.

Agreed. Reddit became worse when it started forcing unrelated content on you at every opportunity. It became hard to recommend to friends when each time I would realise I had forgotten what new reddit and the official app were like.

I like discussion and hearing different point of views. Lemmy is great for one side but i've supplemented it with reading HackerNews. I find the discussion on there way more good faith and even though its stupidly pro AI I still like reading why people like AI and posts about how they are using it.

Mostly im just hear for Tech and Linux and memes. After leaving Reddit I barely ever return. Sometimes i open up a sub to scroll the top posts of the month to see if anything was missed

Yeah Lemmy is egregiously one sided and many users here harass you for not being part of the groupthink.
It is way too tech focused and tech people are incredibly insular in their perspective and think anyone who doesn't think they way they do is stupid. Which is infuriating and why most non tech people hate tech people.
Linux is great for servers and technical work, but it's never going to be a useful OS for the vast majority of people.

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.

Heh, on Reddit, I just avoided the larger subs. r/gaming was the worst gaming sub (aside from subs for free competitive games that are playable by children)
- I'm curious how the Counter Strike subreddit was. It wasn't that bad I don't think a long time ago, before Reddit was as large as it became, and also before it was free. Now that Reddit is a hell-hole and the game is free, is the subreddit horrible too? I'd imagine it is, but I'd expect it to lean a little toward older audiences than the other games, so there's a chance it's fine.

I haven't post in Reddit since they announced the app ban. I found reddit and for me the transition was instant.

I still read reddit for information. But for posting and social media I solely use lemmy.

For me then hardest part was loosing the niche communities. But the UX at reddit is so bad that I prefer loosing those places that having to go through reddit UX to post in them.

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.

Commenting always has value dude! Even small ones are like having a passing conversation in line at a coffee shop.
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Have a great day buddy!
"be the change you want to see in the world", or in this case, "go ahead and post stuff. Nobody here is superhuman, but we try to do the right thing and be chill with people who also aren't quippy dickholes" aka, be human.
I'm sure this won't last, but for now it seems to be better than Reddit, at least. The way I've thought about it is that this takes a certain level/threshold of technical know-how/problem-solving to enter, so it filters out the most casual of thoughtless people (for now). Like if you can't put some serious thought into morality or slightly deeper rationality into a situation, you probably can't jump the bridge to fediverse-lemmy.
Also, as time goes on, I'm noticing all kinds of communities fragmenting into smaller, more specialized communities. Hopefully, Lemmy can be the platform/community of thoughtful considerates who are slightly tech elevated and more social.

Signed up for Lemmy, participated in things I was interested in.

If you're that addicted to Reddit just stay there. I hate this "please beg me to stay" crap that goes on pretty frequently.

I just made the account, subscribed to all the equvalent groups and nothing else

I was perma banned for showing support to our Saint, Luigi Mangioni.

praise be

Reddit kept being shittier and shittier, the people got dumber and dumber, and I kept getting more and more worried about being about to say what I really wanted about magas being fucking terrorists. Then they killed third party apps, and while I tried to make it work for a little while, eventually they killed the workaround, and that was the last straw.

Fediverse/kbin/lemmy has been such a constant breath of fresh air, even if that breath continues to be bad news, that I have literally no reason to go back. The queer techie and neighbor tankies and based non-Americans just make this place so much healthier and positive in a time in history when we really need people who aren't giant assholes and who are awake at all and who make a conscious decision to at least try to do the right thing.

I didn't have a choice. They banned my account and instantly shadowban any new account I make. Even if I use a VPN or agent spoofer.

i tried to get myself banned, but i suspect that i was on there for so long and it would take years for each subreddit to ban me.
also; this implies that the other sites your using are sharing your data with google; which reddit uses heavily.

I was banned for expressing a political opinion. I was annoyed that someone else was trying to shoehorn politics into an art appreciation sub, to which I responded in a visceral way, typical of an alcoholic who had been dry for less than a week.

Honestly, reddit drove me away. I got tired of being hounded by engagement bots asking inane questions, and in the wake of reddit going public, the comment police regularly were nitpicking my comments, reading into them intolerance that simply wasn't there. I was just sick of it all. Reddit has a much bigger userbase, but lemmy is more friendly. There are occasions where it would be nice to post something niche and have a robust discussion, which requires a site with more mass appeal, but I'm not interested in all the drawbacks of dealing with reddit.

That is what happened to me.. the bots banned me within a minute for a metaphorically based - though salty - post. 14 years.
Thing is, I noticed a change in the algorithm not too long after the IPO since my homepage started in with more rage-bait subs and many were ones I'd not visited or even heard of. It was subtle but also kinda disheartening. I decided to manually delete all of what I could and as I was going through the posts I noticed that the art subs I used to go to had all but disappeared on my home page.
I used to go to photoshopbattles all the time and as I was scrolling my home pages, it was nowhere to be seen. Nor was AppleHelp, VintageApple or MacPro..
- It's a bummer because reddit used to be really cool. It's like when you discover a cool little cafe or something that you love going to. Eventually more and more people discover it, and it becomes a bit more crowded, but you still go. Then it gets written up in some magazine or something, and the crowd becomes nuclear. It becomes a tourist trap flogging merchandise, and they turn it into a chain, with the food semi-preprepared for mass consumption. The experience sucks and what was a special spot is ruined.
- Reddit hasn't really been good since the alogorith change that made the front-page stagnate for a day. I got the most out of it when browsing the frontpage was completely different 6 hours later. Once they made it so that everyone who checked reddit that day would get the same experience, the spirit of the site died.

In the beginning it was hard, but I’ve come to love that it isn’t an endless scroll

What part are you struggling with? Not enough content? I get it, but also that's a feature. If you dislike centralized platforms more than you want to rot your brain, it takes zero effort.

On reddit I had my feed of favorite subs

On lemmy I use connect and basically Ive blocked out communities that don't appeal to me / are in languages I don't speak. I started broad and narrowed it down which gives me enough content in a day.

Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.

Lemmy just isn't that good, you need other stuff too. I highly recommend finding independent niche website forums (the old school ones) for your interests and joining them. These are WAY less likely to have bots (unless political based) than Lemmy, Reddit, etc etc. They have real people, sometimes parroting bot stuff they saw elsewhere, but they are at least real and you can talk to them. And you get to know them because normally there's only like 50 active users on those websites at a time anyway. But damn do those 50 people know a lot about vaccuums, or trains, or magnet fishing or whatever the dedicated topic is for that site. It's the most unfederated you can be

I highly recommend finding independent niche website forums (the old school ones) for your interests and joining them.
I still get like 50 emails from those old forums on my birthday lol
independent niche website forums
This is the way.
Hi, noob here too. How do I find these niche sites. And then, how do I "follow" them?
- Can you give me a topic or hobby that you'd be interested in joining a forum for? It would be easier to show you with an example and I don't want to doxx the forums I use.

spite, anger.

My best is: just stop. Yes, Lemmy is like the rural version of Reddit. It’s slower, more niche communities, and not a lot of people making content. But screw Reddit. I was a 15 year reader. They’ve destroyed it for corporate greed. I’m all set.

I did exactly this, quit after 15 years.
Lemmy has a tiny fraction users compared to Reddit, it took me a while to get used to the new rhythm of things here. But after a few weeks, I realized that this is actually much better for me.
In 2 years I have encountered only one troll. There's a lot less content, yes, but I've learned that it's still more than enough. I do miss some of the active niche hobby communities, but I fixed that by digging up my old hobby forum site profiles. The old school forums are just as active as they ever were and I don't have to expose myself to Reddit's neverending stream of garbage anymore.
The transition was actually pretty painless and I wouldn't go back, even if they magically decided to clean the platform and restore the 3rd party apps. This is a smaller world and it fits me very well.

I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote. I no longer have an account there, and I even went for the nuclear option of overwriting all my old messages, ::: spoiler then deleting them in case they chose to restore them, because:

fuck spez

:::
For me personally it helps that I'm on a dedicated instance for Danes, so that's kind of like a safe haven, or like a kiddie pool where it was easier to get to know lemmy at first.

I no longer dread when someone replies because most of the people here on lemmy aren't assholes. I think it's because there's this barrier to entry which filters out a lot of people, or maybe it's that the assholes are looking for fights to begin with and is therefore attracted to the biggest platforms?

I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote.
I get that too. I turn off comment notifications now. It's almost always just some negative basement dweller trolling me.
Fuck Spez.
Edit. Also you can just outright block the shit out of people who you know are problems.
- block the shit out of people who you know are problems

If you're using the app, uninstall it. Delete your bookmarks, etc. Make it more than an idle thought to be on the site.

Use the time you would normally spend doomscrolling on reddit to do something productive on Lemmy. Look for new communities to join, reply to posts you would normally just upvote, post something to a community that could use a boost, etc. The place is far from empty but more interaction really helps to drive growth and build friendships.

See you around mate. 💚

Just by keeping at it. Lots of posts don't get a lot of comments, seems like a lot of lurkers. My front page only has one post with >10 comments and the rest are at 3 or fewer. But Reddit is still in the top ten more-visited web sites in the world. So can't expect the same number of comments compared to the bigger subs there.

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.

This has been my experience as well. I use to browse reddit for hours every day, and now have some of that time back. The only times I find myself there is through a search result to get information. Logging out and deleting your account helps a lot, because when you instinctively check the homepage when logged out, it's all trash, and doesn't make me want to stay.

delete your account and get always on mullvad vpn, reddit often blocked the vpn exit node, so you just can not use it then lol (but sometimes it works still)

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

Getting permabanned on my main and any secondary accounts I had helped. The app on my phone I use for Lemmy makes it look pretty much exactly like the Reddit app so the only difference for me is less people which means some communities I'd like to talk to people in just has nobody in them.

For the Reddit communities that are important to me I use their RSS feeds to keep an eye on new posts though I've logged out of my account and stopped participating. All actual browsing and participation was switched entirely to Lemmy.

I miss the finance communities on reddit. But everything else I looked into on reddit I can mostly find here. I also put the effort into posting when I can't find an existing topic. You have to have a pioneer mentality here to establish your community.

Never used reddit but then found lemmy and liked it

I didn't really, I have 13 Reddit tabs and like 25 Lemmy tabs open in this browser window atm

I went from full lurker to participant since I felt like I'm not completely drowned out by others. That made it more fun, since Lemmy all feed is pretty small relatively speaking and lurking gets boring if you're expecting an endless feed of random junk. Plus, since it's small, you can also feel like you're contributing to the Lemmy community, since without your comments and posts, it won't exist.

Although get to the bottom of the all feed and things get wild.

That and everyone on here are not total contrarians to everything you post or comment on
- No, we ARE contrarians. Take that!

I deleted my account and the app

Got permbanned last year for saying tthat NeoNazis like Stonetoss aka Hans Kristian Graebner should be named and shamed. Tbh fuck that place. Reddit admins are Nazi sympathizers.

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

If you are struggling with this, then you are struggling in general. Figure out what's going wrong in your life and fix it.

What are you finding difficult?

Jerboa app configured to look like Baconreader.

Rip baconreader. It was the best. I still mourn it and wish they'd adapt the ux to lemmy. I'd buy that.

Build a community about something you love! It takes little effort. :) Then when you browse Reddit occasionally, you can steal memes. In fact, do that anyway if you end up browsing and post them here!

This is good advice. Whenever you find yourself thinking "I wish there was more ____ content" here I guarantee you're not the only one thinking that. It just takes one person to have the initiative to make the community and build it up. In my experience it's surprising how quickly others will follow.
My biggest advice is don't make a community and fill it with everything right away. If you have something you want to share maybe hold onto it. Make a list, post one every few days. These grow over time. One burst of posts fades away after a day or two, but regular, spread out posts keep it in people's feed for longer.

New accounts on reddit are heavily restricted making it impossible to share things so I left. Found Lemmy by accident. Instantly way better community and low barrier to contribute has me hereforawhile.

Lemmy on phone. Reddit on desktop. Mostly on my phone so find myself using Reddit less and less.

Helps that Reddit is enshittifying.

Everybody kinda already said the obvious answers, but I'll pop in to reiterate that my main reason was killing the API (because fuuuuuuck their shitty trash app filled with ads- or any and every app that has ads at all). I got here (Lemmy and piefed and mastodon)as part of the mass exodus that switched when the ax dropped on that.

I had wanted to before that, but addictions are addictions. But killing the app I actually liked using (combined with the dev making a Lemmy version that was extremely similar), I just kinda rode the wave to the Fediverse.

So like others, I still poke in when a search result points there, but I avoid it in general. Getting rid of the app will definitely help because it gets rid of the 1-tap access to shit.

Delete all your Reddit bookmarks and favorites and find a lemmy community to launch yourself into. I picked gaming and a few news ones and so far, it's fine.. Even moreso that I found the old.lemmy.zip page and it's comfortable to me as I was dedicated to old.reddit and RES.

I went on a 10 day backpacking trip with no reception. I deleted my reddit apps and bookmarks before I went. So got over the withdrawals during the trip, and there was just enough friction to reinstall when I got back that I never bothered.

I was also very mad about them killing the API for 3rd party mod tools and the resulting slip into AI slop and misogynist claptrap on the sub I helped mod. It's an empty Internet wasteland now; just bots and MAGA incels yelling at each other.

Rage. The changes to 3rd party apps really pissed me off and I thought it was best to use my anger productively.

I nuked my account and stopped going there. Just make the decision to never go back and then be done with it.

Don't fully switch. I only use Lemmy on my phone, and reddit on my computer.

I dont get the question. Same way you stay off any website. There are millions of sites out there. You stay of 99.9% as is. It's just like that.

To be honest: I haven't done a complete switch. I still lurk on reddit from time to time.

What I have done however is switched to only actively engage with Lemmy, which imo is the more important part. I sadly don't have much original content to offer, but I try to engage in some comments (like just now)

Same here. I made sure I quit all the drama subs, all the big subs and I only keep my carefully curated niche content communities in my reddit feed. There's really nothing on Lemmy about, say... Elite Dangerous, so I still browse it to keep up on what's new.
What I don't do is engage. Reddit is too full of bots and too full of itself to be of any usefulness in engagement. I can't help them, they can't help me, there's no point in doing anything but reading on Reddit.
Lemmy, on the other hand, is almost all engagement, because without it there's not much else, unless you like memes, which I do. Talking to people here is rewarding and interesting, the exact opposite of reddit, which delights in doing nothing but shitting on your head and being generally insufferable/boring.

What is it that you go to Reddit for that you don't get from Lemmy? To me, the only reason someone might look at Reddit instead is if Lemmy lacks the content they seek - do you think that's the case for you? Or maybe it's something else?

I'm making the same transition kinda. I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I'm realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more. I already had a trial run on breaking my social media habits when I left twitter though. I think a big part of it is realizing you don't need a constantly updated firehose of useless information lol I'm still very online but probably like half of what I was when I was using Reddit and twitter. Now I have a blog, read a lot of RSS for that breaking, early news and I go to Lemmy for news with social commentary from normal people who aren't influencers. I comment more here too because I'm not competing with millions of people to have an edgy top rated comment. I think the biggest thing is embracing smaller communities and going from there.

I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I’m realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more.
New Digg is supposedly going to use AI for moderation, so why would anyone want to move back there?
And I'm in the same boat, originally fled from Digg to Reddit. I still remember how much I hated how Reddit looked compared to Digg, which is funny, because even though I no longer have an account on Reddit, I still browse certain subreddits there from time to time and I will just not let go of the old.reddit.com layout now.

I use Sync, which is just like Reddit. So it wasnt a hard transition. The issue is mainly volume and communities. Go start your favorite Reddit community on here. Then grow it up!

I switched during the third party app thing. I still Google "problem reddit" if I need good answers but Lots of stuff from reddit I never needed and some stuff was actually throwing me off. The insanely strict rules, mods on Reddit being assholes (there's less of them on Lemmy I wanna think) and the depression inducing pessimism.

I cut out politics from my feed (works 90% of the time) and always browse "new". Good memes, some niche communities and a very diverse and interesting community. Sometimes a little bit too forceful in their perspective but I love all the lemmings on here.

So how did I do it? I think it was a natural fit for me. But only browsing "new", avoiding politics and joining some niche communities helped.

Also no one is forcing you :)

Take your time and maybe when the time is right you will wanna switch over completely. No one will force you on here, but I think that's exactly why this platform is so good.

I check in on Reddit occasionally to see what the normies are up to.

But it helps that Reddit is an intolerably shitty platform.

Got kicked off Reddit for reporting transphobic harassment, so the decision was easy.

Boost app for Android helped by keeping a familiar interface and functionality. Use Alexandrite frontend on PC.

Other than that,you've got to accept that Lemmy is not a direct replacement for Reddit. The population here is way way smaller. Niche interests are non-existant. Subscribing is even pointless to an extent, as there really isn't all that much content posted in total. You're best browsing "all". For content, you get what you get, rather than being able to pick from a wide variety.

It has pros and cons for what it is. But Lemmy certainly isn't a direct replacement for Reddit.

I have to use old.lemmy to make it not look absolutely terrible. I refuse to check to see if the regular version solves a lot of my problems. But right now the thing bothering me most about Lemmy is the fact that posts with pictures don't expand the picture when I click on the little + icon to expand stuff.

Seems like some basic functionality, and it drives me up the wall that it doesn't just work.

Slowly, over the course of 3 months.

I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.

I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I've since kept that vow. Now that I'm fully weaned off, maybe next year I'll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Cold tukey. Then spent my time posting here.

This is my 5th account? I like moving around to different solutions. piefed is the latest and greatest for me, but it doesn't really matter if its fedi.

use a decent app like sync

blorp has been pretty solid for me and you can also use piefed with it
- does it allow you to hide image posts? I haven't found a client that allows you to hide image posts.

I mean I did not like readdit a whole lot and it was more finding out how much federated social media had matured. went to kbin, then mbin, then piefed but its all the federation. I like it despite not getting my vicarious mmo thrills from seeing communities for them.

I use an app called eternal which is based on my favourite Reddit app (back when they allowed other apps). Plus they perma banned me for a bullshit reason.

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

It was run by unbearable assholes, that helped a lot. I used Relay exclusively, and when the API changes were announced it was not a hard decision.

for niche communities so small and so tech-nonliterate that simply have no chance of being on the fediverse i went to tumblr instead

Honestly, just do what you like. You can browse both, too.