It helped that Reddit got rid of 3rd party apps.
Because I only used Reddit 100% on mobile, and their app is horrendous.
I missed the quantity of content on reddit, but I do not miss the quality of replies on reddit.
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.
Did you consider the feelings of the nazis before talking shit about them? They are very sensitive, you know.
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 stopped using reddit, and started using lemmy. It’s not hard.
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.
Consider making one or two of those communities. There’s no shame in sourcing articles/content from reddit and posting it here (direcelt links to source, not links to reddit) . A post or two every few days will quickly round up others.
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.
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.
Use a script to rewrite your messages into word salad.
Then get yourself permbanned.
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.
Using summit
They perm-banned me and I kept getting pissed off when I would want to reply to something.
yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I’m thinking I’ll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)
Fellow 2 year 3 month lemmy user, your anger nourishes my soul.
My how time flies. Reddit was already trash at that point, it was mostly habit keeping me going there, but I think it’s gotten a lot worse. Either that or I forgot just how bad it was.
Never look back, keep fighting the good fight my friend
Wow, has it really been that long?
Right? What the heck