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

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

Stop checking lemmy so often. Or post content.

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.

I stopped using reddit, and started using lemmy. It’s not hard.

I just stopped using reddit. I was so mad about having my 12 year old account perm banned for talking shit about Nazis I swore the entire place off.

Use a script to rewrite your messages into word salad.

Then get yourself permbanned.

Lemmy doesn’t have most of the communities I need, so I still end up using Reddit a lot and sometimes other sites/forums. I use Lemmy for casual browsing though because Reddit’s main subs are complete ass and the politics on Lemmy and its focus on Linux discussion is a lot better.

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.

I missed the quantity of content on reddit, but I do not miss the quality of replies on reddit.

Pretty easy when they took away my favorite app and tried to force me into their ad-riddled POS - along with their hostile treatment and shuttering of subs that didn’t conform. It was already getting to the point that, after a decade plus of being a “redditor”, the place was wearing thin. The constant reposts and karma whoring, the hive mind, the low-hanging fruit of quips getting the most upvotes vs a well-thought out reply, the shills and bots, they were killing Reddit IMO. The action against third party apps was the final straw.

Get yourself permabanned on Reddit.

I came over here when they cut off 3rd party apps. I wasn’t going to browse reddit without Boost, and theres a Boost app for Lemmy, so staying here was easy. I have gone back to reddit twice since, and both times were to check if GeForce Now was broken or if the problem was on my end. Unfortunately Nvidia is pretty terrible at keeping people updated when something is wrong with GFN, so the GFN subreddit is really the only way to find out what’s going on. If I found an active GeForce Now community here I’d never go back.

I kinda had to accept that Lemmy wouldn’t have the same hooks to trigger impulsive scrolling because Lemmy isn’t a corporation desperate to mine you for every ounce of data you can provide.

Also took me a while to find a group of communities with content I like.

I sometimes reinstall Reddit just see what’s happening over there, whenever I open it, it feels like I’m being inundated with ads, both obviously and via the ingenuine comment threads.

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.

Was already a Linux user and tech nerd