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?
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.
Only Lemmy.
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.
Well, I’m permanently banned from Reddit, so…here I am!
I’m only on Lemmy and deleted my reddit accounts
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.
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…
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
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Used to use RiF, stopped when the api bullshit went down and all I use are lemmy and Facebook now.
Lemmy only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.
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).
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.
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.
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
