How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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.
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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?
Depends what you mean by social media. I watch YouTube similar to watching TV. Doesn't feel anything like Mastodon or Lemmy to me, you know what I mean?
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I was confused because I thought you meant Magic The Gathering's head.
Yeah I appealed countless times for my offense. I "abused the report button", apparently when you're in an argument and the other party has resorted to personal attacks, that's not the time to push the report button.
Who gives a PERMA BAN for something like that?
wrote last edited by [email protected]same thing happened to me" you have ben temp banned for abusing the report button", bitch your suppose to investigate the reported not the reportee, which makes me think alot mods dont like responding to reports at all, and confirmed in the mod sub, that they rather like an automatic filter to ban regardless if its a right or wrong ban.
the temp ban also set a chain of bans that purged all my accounts, and then i found out on other forums they had the same issue. multiple users with multiple accounts were unilaterally banned.
if you heard MTG in a comment for the first time you would think the card game, and not the neanderthal in congress.
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most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently.
Doubt. A lot of us are here because of the API changes in July of 2023.
Yep, when i saw that the Blackout had no effect i came over here and never looked back.
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Lemmy only since the reddit purge
PURGES, i found out after i was part of the ban purges they were on the 4th one by then starting from the election.
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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?
80% Lemmy, 20% reddit with rdx app.
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I've replaced all my aimless Reddit scrolling with Lemmy. I'm not so purist I refuse to go there though - there's still a lot of good info organized there, and it's still decent for searches.
I've replaced Twitter too. Ironically Facebook is the one that sticks around, despite being probably the most user-hostile. That one's built around people I know IRL and it's not so easy to drop in a replacement. Even though it's not very good for that or any purpose.
fb has been pushing RW content for 10 years already, and reddit now bans the word FB and facebook.
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Probably about 99% Lemmy but occasionally there just isn’t a community in the Fediverse or doesn’t have the traffic that Reddit does. But I avoid Reddit as much as possible. Its devolved into an AI driven echo chamber.
wrote last edited by [email protected]its basically FACEBOOK 2.0 at this point, half of them are propaganda bots, even palintir is getting thier dirty hands into propaganda botting. and yes people fall for AI ragebait, especially around trump and right wing talking points.
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I got banned from reddit for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and my appeal was declined in minutes. This has led me to the conclusion that Reddit is pro nazi and ban evasion is a lot of work.
I do still peep at it because ngl Lemmy doesn't have that endless stream of content going.
wrote last edited by [email protected]at first it was easy to use a different account you made a while ago and avoid the sub you were banned in, but reddit started to look at everyones accounts that were banned in previously, and just banned you outright even if you waiting 1+years. or even accounts that participated in a sub that were years ago, but a new account was sub banned, they banned the old account as well. and now it results in them shadowbanning anyone now.
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I'm fingerprint banned from reddit now. I worked tooth and nail making thousands of frivolous reports via browser after the API thing. If I'm not mistaken mods used 3rd party apps to help with moderation. I figured I'd make being king of shit mountain a little more of a headache since those tools were out too.
I'll peek in on reddit every once in a while. I clearly don't have an account there so the front page garbage is what shows up. It feels like the internet version of walking down a coast with a beached whale carcass rotting on it. Once majestic, the bloated carrion now serves as a feeding ground for vultures and bottom feeders. The smell is awful. The beach volleyball area is clearly full of bots who have no sense of smell. The beachgoers there for a day at the beach either don't realize or don't care that their beach is littered with poop all over in the sand.
for the most part they just target your IP and just ban all of them . fingerprinting is used if you have been having multiple accounts.
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I can't use Reddit because I got permabanned across all accounts a while back because I was criticizing a video of a drunk white guy making unwanted advances towards an Asian woman in a restaurant.
Also got banned for criticizing Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
Also caught a ban for being too critical about Indians and their rape culture.
similar thing, all accounts banned in feb, except for one, only 2 months later it was finally shadowbanned, maybe because they dint catch the last account during the purges, and i was hearing how when they were forcing a password change it glitched and unbanned people, i guess they fixed that issue. apparently when they force people to change thier password they use that to ban people.
