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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)
Same here. I made sure I quit all the drama subs, all the big subs and I only keep my carefully curated niche content communities in my reddit feed. There's really nothing on Lemmy about, say... Elite Dangerous, so I still browse it to keep up on what's new.
What I don't do is engage. Reddit is too full of bots and too full of itself to be of any usefulness in engagement. I can't help them, they can't help me, there's no point in doing anything but reading on Reddit.
Lemmy, on the other hand, is almost all engagement, because without it there's not much else, unless you like memes, which I do. Talking to people here is rewarding and interesting, the exact opposite of reddit, which delights in doing nothing but shitting on your head and being generally insufferable/boring.