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)
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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Lemmy on phone. Reddit on desktop. Mostly on my phone so find myself using Reddit less and less.
Helps that Reddit is enshittifying.
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.
don't worry. if you go back to reddit you'll get banned again in a few months anyway for the same reasons.
this place is rapidly become reddit though... same folks who who just want to harass and ban anyone whose comments they disagree with. good news is here you can see someone falling you around downvoting all your comments and block them.
at least people aren't sending me PMs constantly on this site about how i should die and/or trying to get me to sub to their onlyfans. for now.
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”.
They perm-banned me and I kept getting pissed off when I would want to reply to something.
Using summit
Sort by top 24 hours and theres much more activity than any of the sorting algorithms.
I do this as well. Works great for both serving me the most interesting content and limiting how much time I spend on Lemmy.
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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.
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
Yeah Lemmy is egregiously one sided and many users here harass you for not being part of the groupthink.
It is way too tech focused and tech people are incredibly insular in their perspective and think anyone who doesn't think they way they do is stupid. Which is infuriating and why most non tech people hate tech people.
Linux is great for servers and technical work, but it's never going to be a useful OS for the vast majority of people.
Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).
I don't browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.
Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It's been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I've stayed away from them.
But also I use the web mostly, and "switching" on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It's sad that many folks who use the Internet don't understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.
If you are struggling with this, then you are struggling in general. Figure out what's going wrong in your life and fix it.