I did the same. I had been donating to Ruud since just before reddit destroyed the 3rd party apps. I stopped that and moved to lemm.ee for now. Chose them because they are defederated from Threads, allow downvotes, and community creation.
Edit: Was unhappy with lemm.ee due to their federation with tankies. Feddit.de is the only instance I could find that was defederated from Threads, lemmgrad, and hexbear.
I just searched duckduckgo and linked the website. Not trying to peddle their products. Just thought it’d be more convenient to provide a link. Didn’t realize that it was an affiliate link. Just edited that off the URL.