People who still use both Reddit and Lemmy and are slowly leaving Reddit. How do you do it?

I have noticed that I’m very often on Reddit through either Apollo or the website out of mere habit (possibly even addiction). However, I have also noticed that the more I use Reddit, the more I feel agitated by all the negativity and toxicity from the users.

This is pretty much in all subreddits I’m active in. Mostly in piracy and piratedgames, people quarrel over the most trivial things and downvote each other for no reason at all.

Unfortunately, Lemmy has less content than Reddit. Though, I can’t call what is on Reddit content anymore.

  • lntl@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    So I used to used both Reddit and Lemmy and now I have completely switched over to Lemmy, which has turned out to be a much better experience anyway. (Less trolls, less intentionally divisive content, etc)

    Here’s what I did:

    1. Got a permanent ban from Reddit (easy to do, plenty of guides online)
    2. Started a lemmy community ([email protected])
    3. Engage with others on lemmy
    4. Post content to c/westchesterny and other communities I am interested in (typically NYC metro area communities)

    What it was for me is Lemmy has a lot of tech and political discussions, but I don’t really care about that so I started a community and contribute to communities that are regional to me because engaged hyper local and regional communities are a huge gap in the lemmy federation right now.