Ask Lemmy

For me it was easy because Reddit was really my only outlet. Never been a big social media user, but I've been using forums as long as I've been on the internet (a long enough time not to admit). So yeah it was a pretty easy transition other than a little bit of a learning curve in understanding how Lemmy and the Fediverse works.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Easy. I haven’t had accounts on most mainstream social networks in quite awhile. I only started being active here because it’s getting more interesting with new people, the post quality is remaining quite high, and I genuinely believe it to be a worthwhile endeavor.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.