When I moved from Digg to Reddit, I used to check back on Digg until eventually the content on Reddit became better than on Digg. The same will happen here.
It took me probably less than a month to completely stop checking Digg altogether. Reddit's decidedly less slick interface had me confused and the content wasn't as easy to digest as with Digg, but it didn't take long to completely abandon it. That was like ten years ago.
I guess a small point I'm trying to make is that you shouldn't feel "shame" for checking reddit. You'll adjust and learn to love whichever alternative you choose
This is my plan also. There is no real advantage to going "cold turkey" in fact it probably just really puts a huge load on the lemmy network for no reason as thousands of people are switching so completely in a matter of days. It's great, and it's a great sign for the future of this network, but in a practical sense it just makes it challenging for lemmy to keep up with the traffic and the registrations. Gradual organic growth or even fast growth is a lot easier to manage from a scaling and development point of view than huge sudden spikes like this. It's impressive that the system has scaled as well as it has.
But to focus back on the individual user experience, I think it's fine (and healthy) for your move to lemmy to be gradual. Content is not going to become available overnight, nor should it due to the scaling problems above. If you come here expecting all your huge firehose of reddit content to be replaced instantly, you'll inevitably end up disappointed, and then you'll stop coming here and end up back on reddit full time. Instead, consider this a first step to replace reddit over time, if it's already enough to become your go-to that's great! But if it's not, that's fine too, and you don't have to feel guilty or disappointed about it. Just make the commitment to keep checking occasionally and not forget about it. Add it to your bookmarks, or your homescreen, or your desktop, or wherever it's going to pop up to remind you to check it occasionally. You've planted the seed, give it time to grow into your life.
@cecilkorik @MonkCanatella You got to look at it a different way. The influx of users on one instance will overload the server but many instances plus mastodon and and all other indtycan handle it. It will be hard to get over Reddit but come the 30th the real test will come and I think Kenny and all the other instances will be ready
I agree, I too was planning to not be too drastic, but today I found out one of my favorite communities is migrating here on lemmy.world, that's exceptional for morale.
Don't get me wrong, I've been here for almost a week now and I already feel at home, I'm not missing reddit as a platform anymore, just a few communities among the many I was subbed to.
Knowing that at least one is migrating (that is, officially migrating, reddit mods are organizing that) makes me so happy I can barely contain myself :D
That helps a lot IMO in not wanting to go back anymore.
And convince people to come and create content here.
More freedom, no ads, not a profit seeking private company, privacy respecting.
Yeah, those ads. I was getting so tired of seeing that Jesus wants me to join the army and buy stuff from Amazon. Jeez.
Where were you seeing ads? Not on a browser (ublock origin) and not really on apps (ad blockers and 3rd party reddit apps).
Not OP but Baconreader had ads but they were small, obvious, and always in the same place. So I left them there cause I figured gotta fund the thing somehow