I didn't have a choice. They banned my account and instantly shadowban any new account I make. Even if I use a VPN or agent spoofer.

I was banned for expressing a political opinion. I was annoyed that someone else was trying to shoehorn politics into an art appreciation sub, to which I responded in a visceral way, typical of an alcoholic who had been dry for less than a week.

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

I just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I'll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don't go there intentionally.

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.

I haven't post in Reddit since they announced the app ban. I found reddit and for me the transition was instant.

I still read reddit for information. But for posting and social media I solely use lemmy.

For me then hardest part was loosing the niche communities. But the UX at reddit is so bad that I prefer loosing those places that having to go through reddit UX to post in them.

Never used reddit but then found lemmy and liked it

At first I was petty. Now I have other things to do with my time so Lemmy has more than enough content.

Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.

Stop giving reddit your energy.

Start giving it to lemmy.

The API charade was more than enough to push me over. At that point, I was banned multiple times because that platform had become a cesspool of its own toxicity. You just couldn't escape it for long, no matter where you posted. When you got people dogpiling you just for complaining about work in a subreddit where it is completely warranted and acceptable to do it in, then that's a problem.

Don't fully switch. I only use Lemmy on my phone, and reddit on my computer.

Signed up for Lemmy, participated in things I was interested in.

If you're that addicted to Reddit just stay there. I hate this "please beg me to stay" crap that goes on pretty frequently.

I just made the account, subscribed to all the equvalent groups and nothing else

If you are struggling with this, then you are struggling in general. Figure out what's going wrong in your life and fix it.

Reddit kept being shittier and shittier, the people got dumber and dumber, and I kept getting more and more worried about being about to say what I really wanted about magas being fucking terrorists. Then they killed third party apps, and while I tried to make it work for a little while, eventually they killed the workaround, and that was the last straw.

Fediverse/kbin/lemmy has been such a constant breath of fresh air, even if that breath continues to be bad news, that I have literally no reason to go back. The queer techie and neighbor tankies and based non-Americans just make this place so much healthier and positive in a time in history when we really need people who aren't giant assholes and who are awake at all and who make a conscious decision to at least try to do the right thing.

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.

WELCOME!

Voyager’s mentioned but unlinked so here ya go, it’s great!

https://vger.app/

Cold turkey basically.

Lemmy on phone. Reddit on desktop. Mostly on my phone so find myself using Reddit less and less.

Helps that Reddit is enshittifying.

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)

What part are you struggling with? Not enough content? I get it, but also that's a feature. If you dislike centralized platforms more than you want to rot your brain, it takes zero effort.

Participating has really helped. I'm still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.

Build the platform you want to be part of.

I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.

I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.

Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.

Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it's not complete trash, you're getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let's people know they're being seen.

Lemmy just isn't that good, you need other stuff too. I highly recommend finding independent niche website forums (the old school ones) for your interests and joining them. These are WAY less likely to have bots (unless political based) than Lemmy, Reddit, etc etc. They have real people, sometimes parroting bot stuff they saw elsewhere, but they are at least real and you can talk to them. And you get to know them because normally there's only like 50 active users on those websites at a time anyway. But damn do those 50 people know a lot about vaccuums, or trains, or magnet fishing or whatever the dedicated topic is for that site. It's the most unfederated you can be

just deleted my account and all reddit apps. quit cold turkey. there's less on Lemmy. but I'm happier, and more productive 🙂

I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote. I no longer have an account there, and I even went for the nuclear option of overwriting all my old messages,

then deleting them in case they chose to restore them, because:

fuck spez

For me personally it helps that I'm on a dedicated instance for Danes, so that's kind of like a safe haven, or like a kiddie pool where it was easier to get to know lemmy at first.

I no longer dread when someone replies because most of the people here on lemmy aren't assholes. I think it's because there's this barrier to entry which filters out a lot of people, or maybe it's that the assholes are looking for fights to begin with and is therefore attracted to the biggest platforms?

RIF stopped working so I started using Liftoff for Lemmy instead.

Don't really use the desktop site.

It took some time for me to realize that not finding a continuous stream of new content was a feature and not a flaw. It meant that there was no algorithm feeding me an endless stream of crap in hopes of keeping me glued to the screen. It meant I could close the app and move on with my day and check back much later. That realization made me embrace it.