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[-] nx2@feddit.de 82 points 1 year ago

Oh no I don't have any of those but you can visit me on Lemmy Mastadon and Nostr!

(Proceeds to explain further only to confuse them more)

Yeah this happened to me when i only used Reddit. Now they get even more confused because it is (almost) only lemmy. Because most people have at least heard the name reddit, but not lemmy.

[-] BrutalPoseidon@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

I had someone stop talking to me because I don't have an Instagram. Kind of weird if you ask me.

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve been told I must be a serial killer multiple times because I don’t have instagram.

I have killed several people but it’s not because I don’t have instagram.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

Shit i use Instagram to find my victims.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

And Snapchat makes it even easier!

[-] swab148@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Oh dang, I've been using it for the wrong reasons

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Same. Whatsapp. The market has become so fragmented that it's all about social clout and what you can compel others to install just to talk to your sorry ass.

[-] BrutalPoseidon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I actually use WA a lot. Most of my family doesn't live in the same country I do and I have quite a few friends in different countries. Texting is not an option for us.

But Instagram, as far as I know, is just a platform to post pictures. I don't care about my own pictures or pictures of others.

[-] ccdfa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Believe it or not, kids these days are using Instagram dms over Whatsapp

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Good riddance if you ask me. Imagine what else comes with that sort of real estate

[-] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like an efficient way for that person to self-filter outta your life.

[-] Mikina@programming.dev 48 points 1 year ago
[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Posted right into social media 👍

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Aren’t your friends meant to also use Lemmy for it to count as social media?

No one I know knows what Lemmy is.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

it's more of a forum than social media if you ask me

[-] Muetzenman@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Interaction through a medium is social media i guess. But i wouldn't call ist that. Lemmy, WhatsApp and YouTube aren't really social media for me. I don't throw personal stuff into the void of people i more or less don't know in hope to get likes.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

it's Social Media once there are ads and blatant anti-user changes

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I would argue that a forum is a type of social media. It's very different in that it's as anonymous as you want it to be. But it is still a place where people visit for the purpose of socializing

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

forums existed long before what we call social media was even invented

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*I* don't even know what Lemmy is, and I've been using it daily for months!

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I can explain it to you: it's a social media

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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

This is hardly social media. None of y'all exist

[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

antisocial media

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[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Not on Instagram/Facebook/Snap/Tiktok. Trying to avoid all conspiracy videos/rage-bait videos on YouTube. It's done wonders for my mental health.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Left tiktoc because of how stupid it was.

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I removed myself from Facebook because everytime I was at a get together with friends or family it was going like:

Have you heard about this? Yes, I've read it on Facebook.

To almost all questions. With most people ending up looking at their phones because there was nothing left to talk about...

[-] freebread@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly! It's so much more engaging to learn all of these things organically as you catch up with someone. I still have Insta but am using it less and instead, sharing photos with my friends directly.

[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

I don't understand these memes... you are literally posting on a social media platform right now... this here is social media. Lemmy is social media. We are socializing, with media, you can comment, you can post image and links, this is social media..

Why do people somehow mental gymnastic themselves into thinking they are above social media while still actively posting on social media. I see memes like this here on lemmy all the time, saw them on reddit too, it makes absolutely no sense.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 1 year ago

Normies are like: if you’re not a regular in Zuck’s Casino, you may was well be a weird hermit living in a shack in the woods, like Ted “Bon Iver” Kaczynski or something

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Ted died a few months ago of suicide, but he was deathly ill with cancer. So he would have died shortly after anyways.

[-] Crabhands@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I quit a few years ago. Super liberating, but after 2 years of practically nobody jumping on Signal with me, and being left out of friend group chats, I settled on "Facebook lite" for my phone. I dont post, or scroll the feed. Just available for chats.

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[-] gareins@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Why is whatsapp exempt, its from the same data hoarding company

[-] ccdfa@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I'd say mostly practical reasons. It's hard to get everyone in your contacts list to switch to Signal or other options. WhatsApp is so widely used that it's hard to eliminate it completely without losing touch with friends or family. We're trying, and hopefully with time enough people will switch that WhatsApp can fall to the wayside

if id have to use whatsapp I'd very reluctantly do it but never Facebook messager

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[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

What did you do to enrage the Roman Emperor?

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The bots thought I was one of them.

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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I definitely would unfriend most of my friends if I would see their Instagram or facebook stories. Good for them, I don't watch their garbage.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I have Facebook, but rarely ever use it, but it stays there in case it's someone's first port of call to contact me that may not have any other means to do so.

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you. There is definitely a middle ground between full blown scrolling addict and deleting all social media lol.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have them for whenever I have the need to comment on something but my pages are mostly empty with fake info. My display pics are random stuff nearby like a closeup of my carpet, the wall, or something on desk.

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