How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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?
Joined when Boost for reddit stopped working for me a couple of months ago. Now I check the new here and open reddit when I'm just doom scrolling.
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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?
I check Reddit like 5-10 minutes a week max and usually only if i land there via searches and just do a quick gloss over anything ive potentially missed. But compare that to the hours a week in habitually using lemmy (for better and/or worse i guess haha)
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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?
Ever since they killed third party apps, I stopped using it on my phone. Now whenever I have time to kill on my phone, I'm on Lemmy. My PC still has the old interface and such, so i still check it from time to time at home, but never on mobile. I'm on mobile for news far more than at my desktop.
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from what ive heard all the location based subs{cities,,,etc} have been overtaken by mostly conservatives and tankies of those areas. even my super blue area is met with " do your duty and obey,,,,etc"
I heard something similar. And that any "blue" or "neutral" comment is followed by an immediate suspension or outright ban. I haven't witnessed it myself, though, since I haven't been active on Reddit in over a year now.
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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?
Literally the only social media I use (apart from signal, if that counts).
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I don't have an account on other social media.
Once in a while I do searches like "alternative to X site:reddit.com" for software, movie recommendations, etc. So I do use it, just don't participate. Mostly because it's designed to breed hate and distrust.
same here
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I cold-turkeyed reddit.
Also noticed when I type reddit on android app search-bar thing sync shows up for some reason.
many of us were forced from reddit from the purges they have been doing.
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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?
I've stopped contributing on Reddit a long time ago and only visit niche communities as a news feeds mostly.
I've actually been working on scraping powered rss feed generator of my own to avoid visiting reddit all together but turns out its a bit more than a weekend project to put all of the pieces together.
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Ya Reddit is crazy for the amount of people you can find in a Niche community. From a random health condition you may have, to one specific video game that is 20+ years old.
reddit has a whole host subs specifically for general health conditions, to dermatology or to the one you may have. im visit subs of conditions i have to look into other peoples experiences.
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I deleted my Reddit account and switched to Lemmy after the API stuff. I kinda regret deleting my account because it wasn’t until after that I learned about the apps that would scrub your comment history, but Reddit has a tendency to roll those back anyway.
I still sometimes end up on a Reddit thread when searching for some technical issue, but I generally try to browse other forums for solutions first if possible.
ETA: all other social media stuff like Instagram and Facebook I deleted around the time of Trump’s first election. Just got sick of the constant stream of bullshit.
reddit is pretty hostile to new accounts anyways, due to recent changes.
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I was on Reddit a long time, never had a Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Snapchat, back in the dark ages I used Usenet but not AOL or Myspace or anything like that. I try not to use much that is not anonymous.
For a couple of years now just Lemmy, in those two years I have put I think 4 posts on Reddit (people with local questions, Lemmy is not big enough for a good local sub.), and look at it maybe once every two months, not browsing but in answer to specific questions.
I wouldn't describe myself as hardcore, though. Regular person. I look at the phone's news feed, talk to other people, get information other places.
wrote last edited by [email protected]i dint discover reddit until 2012-13ish, when when looking for friendsafari exchanges, i unknowingly was using reddit at the time. thats how i discovered reddit, when i looked at the forum i signed up to but dont know that it was reddit at that time. it was also the last accounts to be shadowbanned this year too. i only knew about that old account because mutliple emails alerts were being sent to my phone that i recieved multiple permabans at once. due to a temp ban triggering it.
i think reddit's permaban purges died down, but they resorted to shadowbanning excessively, which is more stealthy. i noticed people were less likely to report it on other forums when they are shadowbanned, because it doesnt tell you that you are banned in anyway, reddit started to abuse the fuck out of this moderation.
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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?
Only using Lemmy and don't miss mainstream social media
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Reddit started having ads and i noped out. Was really only using it for porn lol
with ublock origin i never had ads, for ads, reddit wasnt as intrusive as other sites with ads. but now we see reddit is rpetty desperate for them now.
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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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The only thing I have that's mainstream is Bsky. Outside of that, I've been fedi exclusive for some years now. I tried to make a Tumblr, but I forgot just how much corpo ran networks suck. The moment I was hit with adverts for their crappy membership and shop, I tapped out. I have a Facebook that's only occasionally used to get contact information from old friends and family, but aside from that I'm always logged out.
That's about it, I think. I consume Youtube through the web client and 3rd party mobile clients without an account, and I get around other sites with similar methods.
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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?
I do check other media but I do not participate in them anymore, e.g. I browse reddit or https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ but I deleted my account months ago.
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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?
I use Lemmy and Mastodon (and sometimes Pixelfed), but have currently a Bluesky-phase. I also noticed a lot of anxiety when using bluesky regarding current events, so i'm thinking of dropping it again, i can cope better with lemmy, much less hectic.
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I'm banned from Reddit and since the appeal process is bullshit, I didn't bother to appeal.
wrote last edited by [email protected]ever since they started using AI to overmoderate bans, th ignore any appeal of those done by AI, and it takes extremely long time for admins to even respond if they do it. thats why they use AI, admins are a small group of peopl,e they certainly arnt looking at thousands+ of appeals a day. so they ignore most of them. and i bet they only concentrate on the large subs, with users/mods with extensive histories, any new accounts, old inactive accounts they tend to ignore.
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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?
haven't used reddit once since Spez's mod-melting-bullshit. don't anticipate ever going back. bluesky + lemmy is more than enough distraction for me.
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just today on the shadowban sub, i heard user appeal shadowban by kissing ass in the appeal form to spez, and he was unbanned, lol. i thought it was funny, they thought it too(eventhough the user dint really like spez)
it is pretty funny lol. i don't give a shit about reddit tho , i even blocked the domain name, so that accidental clicks won't go thru
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I use both several times a day. Reddit has more content. But the fediverse (and decentralization of communication) is important to me so I created my own instance. I'm hoping more people follow.
also easier to block things like tankie communities and porn/ politics instances. reddit its harder to, because they have clones of variations of many subs. some of them maybe pure propaganda subs.
