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.

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

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

Stop checking lemmy so often. Or post content.

Lemmy has significantly less activity and less communities, which kind of sucks, but it's also probably for the best because I just stopped being online so much. I went from browsing like 3 hours a day to maybe 15-20 minutes a day, often not checking in for a day or two. I suppliment that with maybe a hour or two of Tumblr a week. Went from 20+ hours a week on reddit to 3-4 hours between Lemmy and Tumblr. I only ever get on reddit anymore if I'm googling a specific question that leads me to it, never to just browse. Easier because reddit just seems to suck nowadays.

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.

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 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 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.

Get yourself permabanned on Reddit.

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.

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.

Use a script to rewrite your messages into word salad.

Then get yourself permbanned.

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

Don't really use the desktop site.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Cold turkey basically.

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.

Using summit

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.

WELCOME!

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

https://vger.app/

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.