I was never a Reddit poster, and I didn't find Lemmy from Reddit (chapotraphouse was long gone when I joined), so it really wasn't that hard.

I use Redlib occasionally to read Reddit posts, sometimes I need to find obscure things real humans have talked about. You could try setting up Libredirect so you can only see the Redlib version of Reddit (no posting, less algorithm, no interactions, and sometimes it goes down so you're forced to take a break).

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

But it helps that Reddit is an intolerably shitty platform.

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.

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

Helps that Reddit is enshittifying.

Never used reddit but then found lemmy and liked it

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

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

What are you missing?

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.

Use a script to rewrite your messages into word salad.

Then get yourself permbanned.

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.

Stop checking lemmy so often. Or post content.

It helped that Reddit got rid of 3rd party apps.

Because I only used Reddit 100% on mobile, and their app is horrendous.

Using summit

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

use a decent app like sync

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.

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.

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.