Asklemmy

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

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?

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

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.

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.

Use a script to rewrite your messages into word salad.

Then get yourself permbanned.

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

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.

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.

In the beginning, I wanted to go back to reddit so much. But then I remembered what a shitstain company reddit is, and I reminded myself of that. Now I don't even WANT to go back to reddit. Fuck them.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Stop checking lemmy so often. Or post content.

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.

What are you missing?

Honestly, just do what you like. You can browse both, too.

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.

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.

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.

use a decent app like sync

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

But it helps that Reddit is an intolerably shitty platform.

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 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).