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Once I figured out that it does not matter what instance you join, it was simple. I initially kept trying to join lemmy.world but it timed out for a couple weeks. Tried signing up with a smaller instance and they had to manually approve my account which never happened. Finally found lemm.ee which let me sign up.

The Lemmy site could do a better job in making it clear that the instance you join does not matter that much. Currently the site tells you to join one that matches your interest which is a bit silly considering there are a myriad of subs on each of them.

I used to be very active on Reddit. I have now left it completely. It was not that hard because the entire time I remind myself "those are just useless internet points". So it doesn't matter where I go.

For Instagram, even though all of my friends are there, I don't really care what they are doing, so I have no attachment at all.

Same routine for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit (in this order). I just stopped using them, deleted the apps, deleted them from the browsing history, and blocked them on my firewall. Other than some really technical things on Reddit (which I viewed on the archived pages), going cold turkey was not an issue at all. The relatively sparse content in the first weeks also stopped me from doomscrolling.

It was super easy, barely an inconvenience!

I left Reddit and jumped here. I admit that I look into Reddit every so often - mainly for a local subreddit - but 99.9% of my Reddit usage is now Lemmy usage.

For my Twitter->Mastodon jump, it's not fair to compare. I had already basically abandoned my Twitter account before I ever heard of Mastodon. So it wasn't really "jumping from Twitter to Mastodon" as much as it was "going from nothing to Mastodon." That signup was easy as well, though.

I'll admit that the "pick your server" step can be a little daunting. It feels like you're choosing the most important bit right at the start and can overwhelm people, but it's easy to switch later if you want. Smoothing that process out somehow would be my only recommendation.

Replacing reddit with Lemmy was pretty easy for me. Finding an alternative for Facenook and Instagram mifgt be harder though. I'd love to see an alternative to youtube too

I'm still occasionally browsing spezworld in read only mode and I thought I was doing okay but I just found old.lemmy.world and now it feels like I've relapsed.

Abandoning social media has never been too difficult for me. I deleted all Meta (back then still Facebook) platform accounts after the large phone number leak. I deleted my Twitter account after Musk took over (could foresee the stupidity). I deleted my Reddit account because of the API change announcement.

Make me angry enough and I'll leave your platform. The platform needs me more than I need it.

Reddit and Twitter were easy to leave. FB has been a lot harder because of how many of my family, friends, and community orgs use it. Reddit and Twitter were not places I caught up with people I genuinely care about, and it's easy to swap one group of strangers for another.

I still visit /r/ukraine and /r/combatfootage, but less and less lately and zero engagement. Propaganda has taken over the ukraine sub and the comments have become vile. Better discussion and analysis on /combatfootage. The /c/ equivalents are low traffic.

Otherwise I haven't had any issues and feel better. I've been reading more, either reading the actual linked articles or library books/audiobooks. Every morning I ask siri 'tell me the top news today' and it reads me a 1-2 minute podcast from CBC. I might pop into ground.news while I do my morning business, and then during the day at work I'll have a lemmy tab open.

The main problem is that I use reddit for work. I need to find another place, maybe stack exchange or some lemmy instances/communities. Haven't really spent much time looking.

Completely effortless.

I first came to check out kbin/lemmy immediately after spez's petulant AMA, but it was really just that I happened across a link just as I was thinking that maybe I should think about trying to find an alternative.

But instead, I just ended up staying. I haven't been back to Reddit since, and don't miss it.

Joining the fediverse alternative was easier than I anticipated. Abandoning the social media website is a bit harder, since there's still some communities that haven't migrated yet.

So easy, I’m wondering if everyone else I see complaining about it here was even on the same site I was on.

They told r/dndmemes to stop posting goblin porn so someone posted a link to the fediverse.... and I made an account. Simple as, really.

I didn’t quit. They kicked me out when they killed my app. While I think lemmy is cool, fracturing communities is almost always the wrong answer, and I would go back if they restore access via the app.

Like a lot of other posters, not hard at all. I miss /r/Daddit. I miss /r/Datahoarder but the selfhosted community here is strong and seems to have absorbed some home networking, datahoarder, etc topics.

It doesn't have to be difficult.. or even done at all.

Reminder to folks that being active in the fediverse does not mean you need to not be on traditional forums, social media, etc. It is perfectly fine to be active in both, either, or none.

Once I figured out how to make lemmy look a lot like what I was getting from Reddit and HN, I haven't been back to either. Now I have a single RSS feed in my reader to my personal Subscribed/Active page. The RSS link you can get from your instances website while logged in includes some kind of ID to your personal feed so there's no authentication needed and I never have to change anything there, if I join a new community, it starts showing up in my RSS reader, if I unjoin, it goes away. It's quite glorious. I've found good/active enough communities to replace what I followed at the old places and the comments sections are far less flooded with nonsense.

I'm on Mastodon a bit, and I do really like it, but it wasn't a replacement for me, I was off Twitter and the like for about 7 years already when I decided to try it.

I didn't feel the need to abandon them because I don't mindlessly scroll them. Well, I guess I did for reddit but I stopped that easily enough by substituting for Lemmy. And since Lemmy is kinda barren right now besides the front page I've cut way down on phone time. I still use Twitter when I try to get news on something, I use reddit to get random people's thoughts on a purchase, don't use Facebook or Instagram at all. Snapchat I just use for a single groupchat.

The first days of lemmy I didn’t see any interesting things but I am amazed about how good it is, I stopped used reddit thanks to this. In the other hand mastodon I have tried and tried but I haven’t found anything worth checking, I stopped using twitter but I haven’t found my vibe in mastodon.

Leaving Twitter for Mastodon was very easy. I pretty much left and never looked back. Leaving Reddit for Lemmy is not easy. Been in the process for a couple of weeks and I still find myself spending hours on Reddit and very little on Lemmy.