I started to ween myself off when they announced they were killing third party apps since I was never going to use that trash app. As the weeks went on and they showed they would rather prioritize their interests over the community I realized things would never change and the idea of what reddit was in my head didn't match reality so I made a few Lemmy accounts.

There are a few niche subreddits that didn't come over or I just haven't found them, honestly I've not really looked. It took a bit to acclimate to Lemmy and how things federate and there were a few syncing issues that were fixed pretty quickly as the exodus happened which is really nice. The admins on all the instances seem to have their own biases in how they run their community and those seem to fall in line with the rest of their communities so it doesn't seem like a big deal as most recognize their differences and try and work together anyway. I think that even though some may disagree or outright hate each other they want the concept of the fediverse to work so they put in the effort which is all anyone can ask of each other.

As for how I'm doing and the fear of missing out, it's honestly not much different other than a few niche communities that are available off of reddit anyway so I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. The only thing we don't have is a fediverse mascot afaik.

I fully left Reddit. I don't miss Reddit at all.

Before that I fully left Digg, before that MySpace, before that Geocities.

I do still miss Geocities and MySpace.

The only thing I really miss are the Sports subreddits. I didn't realize how much news I got from them. People are trying to recreate them here, but there simply aren't as many people here.

Oh, I also miss the guy who posts pictures of his cows.

I haven't deleted my account yet but I very rarely visit Reddit anymore.

There are a couple things about Reddit I miss that Lemmy lacks at this point, such as r/askhistorians or r/whatisthisthing which could be useful. I don't think Lemmy/kbin/the fediverse are widely adopted for me to get a reasonable answer to a question like "what is the oldest practical warning sign known to exist?"

Discussion boards of things like Battletech or Satisfactory or other slightly niche interests exist here, but are pretty much inactive.

I have not missed anything. I hard blocked it dns level before the api restrict and haven't looked back. The only thing I really lost is the tales from reddits,I get everything else I needed via lemmy and I'm overall happy.

I don't miss the millions of idiots on that website.

I miss it, I found more fun stuff, especially comment sections, but I would say my lemmy feed has more quality.

But I tried reading books instead of endless doom scrolling

Its been weird, I feel like I'm kind of missing something, same kind of FOMO, but when I actually go back to it I see I'm not missing anything at all. Lemmy is pretty neat, but haven't fully gotten the hang of it yet. Just discovered how to sub another instance today, so progress is being made.

I've been back to reddit probably 20 times in the past 3 months, and every time I'm waiting for the dopamine hit, and it never kicks in. Its just flat now, the content just isn't that interesting. Its all pretty cringy, and I'm pretty much over it, just going there out of habit, chasing the content dragon that no longer exists.

Facebook is useless, Xitter is dead, reddit lost its way. I'm enjoying Lemmy so far, but it seems to be missing the viral content, ultra red-hot breaking news that reddit used to have.

I quit cold turkey when the blackout started. The great thing about FOMO is that it's all completely unwarranted. Take the leap and let go.

I sold my account and blocked Reddit at the DNS level. I set up a bunch of feeds in Inoreader to stay on top of topics I care about like local news, gaming, tech, etc.

The only downside has been while playing BG3 and Googling things, Reddit results usually come up first and look the most spot on. Other links are either AI generated garbage or articles that are ten paragraphs when two sentences could have been done.

I think for memes and news I’m pretty much set with lemmy. For a lot of more niche topics like specific gaming communities, I do kind of feel left out. For now though I’m willing to bite the bullet. I stand by why I left Reddit. It’s nothing special technologically to warrant putting up with the shitty business practices. Eventually people will migrate elsewhere once the squeeze is tight enough, whether it’s to lemmy or not. For one of the games I play there’s already more activity on their forum than the subreddit for it. Not so much for others.

There are still things I use reddit for, but only because Google sucks so much now. Like if I'm looking for the best something to buy, I'll add "reddit" at the end so I don't get pages and pages of ads.

Otherwise, all my previously reddit-based entertainment comes from Lemmy, especially since all the activists seemed to have gone back. Lemmy is now fun again!

I left and I’m fine with it.

Every now and then I open the app and my stomach turns at how horrible it is. If I’m at my desk I might go to one of the smaller video subreddits and spend 5 minutes catching up.

I like Lemmy. It’s enough to keep me distracted, and if I make a comment 9 times out of 10 I’ll get an actual conversation with someone.

I miss some niche communities but I’ve learned to live without them

ones that fully left reddit

Ones who fully left reddit, you mean. We are people, not things.

When I was on Reddit I consumed it fast and often. The bus, the car, the patio, the loo; everywhere.

Now I launch Lemmy and say to myself "oh, right. Less stuff"

I think I need to normalize not checking Lemmy like it's reddit, still. There's definitely some behaviour to unlearn.

Getting my ass banned from multiple communities will fulfill that role eventually lol. Even got banned from GCJ for going against the jerk - probably made a mod mad I use reddit bc it’s a lot more active than here, and it’s great for wasting time at work. Wish I had something worthwile to post here though, because I’d love for this place to have more traffic.

I was a user for 13 years or so, lurker a few years prior, and a moderator of sizable sub. Leaving reddit was the best decision I've made for my mental health in years. I only wind up there now when I need to get a useful google result. So 20-30s probably 5-6 times a week.

I still use reddit when I need to ask some obscure question about some topic that isn't well represented on Lemmy yet. I don't browse or lurk anymore though. (Kind of like how some people just use Facebook for communication and not for the newsfeed.)

Check out beehaw if you're worried about missing news. That lemmy instance has way less shitposting and seems to have healthy discussion.

Between the mixed feeds on Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw I haven't missed any big things that I'm aware of. I have other friends on discord and irl and if they talk about a big news story it's never something I missed.

I only check in on my cities subreddit for local news otherwise I've totally dropped it. I miss the community and the depth of content on what reddit used to be but Lemmy is growing fast and has kept many of the same internet jokes so I'm content

I've been using a Libreddit instance to look up stuff on reddit (no login, no interaction, no ads, it's shared so even my browsing history is being obfuscated with other users)

The downside is that these instances are severely rate limited, so sometimes I have to wait a bit if it's busy.

I only use Reddit for two things these days. Practicing my technical writing skills by offering answers to ELI5 posts, and silently doomscrolling though US politics.

Both of these are theoretically on Lemmy somewhere, but this place really doesn't move fast enough to be fulfilling.

That said, I only access Reddit on desktop PC in old.reddit mode. The third party appocalypse did not make me leave completely, but it did kill off all of my time using it on mobile, at least. The day they take old.reddit from me and force me to use that miserable card view, though, I'm checking out for good.

When that inevitable day arrives, I will not have FOMO over it. Anything positive I'd hypothetically be missing out on would be canceled out by the abysmal way in which they expect me to consume it. I will miss what it was, though. Lemmy just isn't a substitute for it. The Lemmy experience right now is the Miracle Whip to Reddit's mayo.

No FOMO, but I do miss how had more--and more varied--content. Also, the memes were better.

I left reddit completely when they started taking over subreddits if the mods refused to stop their protest. I think subreddits are created by the mods, maintained by the mods, and simply hosted by reddit. In a moral sense (but not in a legal sense) the subreddits belong to the mods and I couldn't support reddit's new policy by participating in it.

Lemmy is way worse than reddit, simply because it's so small. I used to participate primarily in subreddits for obscure video games, blogs I liked, and other niche interests. None of that is here yet. Even my guilty pleasure, AITA, isn't here yet. But the only way to change that is by participating here myself, and in the meanwhile I spend a lot less time just browsing random stuff which is a win for my productivity.

In many ways I was addicted to Reddit. I spent a lot of time on there. I needed an excuse to go cold turkey. I will go occasionally for specific information, but I've completely moved my idle doomscrolling to lemmy instances. There's less content so it takes less time, which is good in a way.

I "left" when infinity for reddit stopped working.

I am doing just fine without Reddit. If every social media site disappeared tomorrow (including Lemmy sites), I would go on living feeling just fine. Because I was alive before the internet growth in the 90s, before cell phones, during a time when pay phones and rotary phones existed, and got along quite well.

We don’t need these stupid sites. No offense intended here, but if a person is so addicted to a website, especially a social media site, that they feel FOMO after leaving it, they need to reevaluate their priorities in life.

And note: I created my Reddit account in May, 2008. I eagerly deleted my 15-year account in July, 2023 and have never looked back. And for all the bullshit he did to Christian Selig and others, fuck Spez, in perpetuity.

I check Reddit maybe twice a week, but only a couple of specific niche subs( like many others have said). For me it's /r/fragrance that I've had a hard time finding a good replacement for... Perhaps I should just frequent Basenotes.com more?