Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
I’m enjoying figuring out how the place works. For example, when I first signed up, I couldn’t work out how Beehaw.org was part of Lemmy was part of the Fediverse, but I’m now subbed to almost as many communities on other servers as I am on Beehaw.
The learning curve has perhaps been more steep than on Reddit, but no more so than Twitter > Mastodon.
oh yea for sure, especially since feduverse twitter alternatives have weird terminology for stuff and generally diff ui
In terms of UI, I noticed yesterday that there’s one you can install for Lemmy that’s based on the classic phpBB forum design, which made me realise that Reddit was never anything more than just a massive forum. And that’s probably why I liked it so much.