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Is anyone here so hardcore that they don't even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 22 minutes ago

Only Lemmy.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 minutes ago

I'm only three (3) active (and hopefully semi/official) communities away from ditching r/ and moving completely to c/; for most of everything else I've found quite sufficient activity on Lemmy + Mastodon. Alas, since "representatives moving their community to lemmy" is not the kind of stuff you can enhance yourself unless you are an admin of those, I'm stuck on waiting.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Occasionally I'll hit up a reddit result if I'm doing a search looking for an answer to a specific question. But I never browse it since the 3rd party apps stopped working.

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Same same. I moved to Firefox for Android back then and use ublock to hide their nags forcing you to use their app. And of course the ads they were trying to shove down our throats by killing third party apps. It's still a great repository of knowledge that I'll search via Google, but otherwise I browse for fun here.

[–] chunkyrice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, only the third party apps that you know of so far.

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 hour ago

I'm only on Lemmy and deleted my reddit accounts

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

Well, I'm permanently banned from Reddit, so....here I am!

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 points 1 hour ago

I realized sometime in the last year that Lemmy provided me all the usual community groups I needed and actually content I wanted to read (I never really used Reddit to just browse, outside of the sub.s I'd joined).

And I've been using Mastodon since, like 2020 or something (never was a fan of Twitter, though).

Also since using Facebook though that's probably more due to burnout and falling out of touch with a lot of the people in my life. Facebook really did make navigating socializing and keeping in touch both easier and less energy intensive and I will, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage™ that people seen to emotionally brand a large classification as. Shane about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also going to end up as shit – in the end –, so long as owned by a corporation); since I'd already dropped in using it, I just opted to stay stopped.

Still use YouTube as there isn't a real viable alternative yet; itching for the day they're is.

And still use Tumblr, as most of those I socialize with are on there; though it has built up plenty of its own enshittification over the last few years. If I ever finish my Fediverse clone of it, that's where I'll be sprinting to.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 1 points 42 minutes ago

Seeing how this post has 600 replies and I see a lot of activity in the past 6 months I feel Lemmy is doing pretty well as a reddit alternative.

I certainly don't miss the amount of shitposting that reddit had. Literally every first post was some dumb joke that didn't even made me chuckle..

[–] Coolkat@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

Lemmy only. Actually, I just can't stand the corpoverse, it's litterally painful for me to browse. The only exception so far is instagram because it's dopamine gold and you can discover a lot of things, but this is less and less true. And with voyager integrating pixelfed in upcoming updates... well i'll just migrate

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Used to use RiF, stopped when the api bullshit went down and all I use are lemmy and Facebook now.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.

[–] Doburoku@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

It's somehow gotten worse than Quora and I didn't know it was possible.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

It’s weird even a few months backI would see vastly more overt racism here than on reddit. I looked at a few subs in reddit’s all recently and the overt racism got intense fast.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lemmy Mastodon Bluesky

These are my main social media platforms now.

I might hit a Reddit link here or there because occasionally the information I need is posted there (that I found from a web search). But I don't browse that site ever any more.

Deleted Twitter because of elon. Deleted Facebook after Cambridge Analytica. Never had Instagram (will never download a Meta app at this point).

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

Same here. Nothing could convince me to go back to Reddit or Twitter at this point.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

Right. I'm literally missing nothing of value by not going there.

People like to think they are missing something. But they aren't.

"But my [topic of interest] isn't on [some other platform]!" Then be the change. Stop lurking and make it if you want to see it. That thing started off small at Reddit and Twitter, too. They just have the momentum of being around for a decade or more.

[–] hihi24522@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

The only social media I really use is Lemmy. I have instagram strictly because that’s where my sibling’s meme group chat is and they don’t want to move. I don’t use it for anything else.

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I never post or browse Reddit anymore, but I'll still look at Reddit search results. There's just too much good information on there that you just can't find elsewhere.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

that's what libreddit and the like are for. Reddit (for now) just has too many old questions that were answered really well and in depth, or just were the only real findings when looking for answers in small areas.

[–] Darkblue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Exactly. Same here. I only see Reddit via Google searches.

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[–] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 2 hours ago

lemmy since 2020 and mastodon since earlier this year, I use discord a lot, and a ton of rss feeds. I occasionally check instagram because thats where my wife sends me her memes so I try to remember to get in there at least once a week. I search for reddit answers when looking for stuff like recommendations but I havent had an account for a few years now

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Lemmy has like 0 discussion about anything not technical or not related to American politics so have to peruse reddit now and then

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I only use reddit anymore for the meta. It's like a zoo. Its users are scarcely self-aware. I know this is conceited but whatever.

I think lemmy being a reddit clone is rather ill-fated but at least for now people generally still post like real human beings. There's something strange about how dialog is basically an algorithm. Reddit is reached some sort of maximum where nothing you can possibly say will deviate the flow of comment sections from the pre-defined talking points. It's like they're all stuck in neurotic thought cycles.

There's a video with Trevor Noah and John Stewart where they talk about how social media is a performance. It's not a "town square" or whatever. It's not really honest in good faith dialog.

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I actively avoid reddit links for the last 2 years.

[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Browse reddit but only have lemmy account

Besides that , my only other socials (bluesky|tumblr)

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy is my only social media

[–] Mouette@jlai.lu 2 points 2 hours ago

It is not hardcore i'd actually advise anyone to limit its media following for its own mental health. I never feel better than on vacation during which I barely check news and internet

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 3 hours ago

I don't know if I'm hardcore or not, but I've never had a Reddit account.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I ditched reddit for good two years ago. Now I just use Lemmy, Tildes, and Lobste.rs

[–] Raffster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Tildes. Now that i haven't heard in some time. That's still around then?

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 1 points 33 minutes ago
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