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At first I was petty. Now I have other things to do with my time so Lemmy has more than enough content.
Stop giving reddit your energy.
Start giving it to lemmy.
If you are struggling with this, then you are struggling in general. Figure out what’s going wrong in your life and fix it.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
Cold turkey basically.
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.
