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.

Jerboa app configured to look like Baconreader.

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.

Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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

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.

Was already a Linux user and tech nerd

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.