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 love it and I feel excited about it. How often do I feel excited about new tech? Almost never, because it always comes from the big dominant tech companies, and it only serves to make their influence over humans more and more powerful.
I only used Lemmy for two days. First day was seeing the awesomeness of the idea itself, second day was setting up my own instance to help spread the load of users in the future. Its glorious. :)