Asklemmy

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”.

Jerboa app configured to look like Baconreader.

The censorship on reddit sickened me. I felt like I was being brainwashed scrolling through the feed. One day I just couldn't tolerate it any longer and like that I was free

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.

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.

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

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

I left reddit in 2020, it was just very toxic at that point. scrubbed my account and uninstalled the app. Hexbear was standalone for a long time, so being part of the lemmyverse is a nice horizon broadener. Beyond that, when I'm bored and want to scroll, I check out rednote to see what the rest of the world is up to

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.

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)

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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