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?
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.
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Wow I only got banned on one account.
Make sure you delete the banned accounts or Reddit will just keep spamming you with emails.
reddit keeps track of deleted accounts that have bans in it. so any new accounts they can compare to the old ones that were banned.
if you are using same IP and device you can expect a shadowban.
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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, that was the big wave. Even though my third party app kept working with a custom API key for a long time, I made the full switch after a year or so. Not that I used reddit much during that time. Since then only stumble upon reddit in web searches.
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I still use reddit.
Lemmy is still missing a few things:
- Sports discussion. There's nothing quite like the absurdity of some of the sports communities that really brightens my day, from really deep analytical insights to the dumbest meme jokes in existence.
- City-specific local discussion. I still spend time on my city's subreddit, which helps keep me tuned in on local happenings.
- Non-tech related career discussion. My field (law) has several subreddits useful for talking shop, growing careers, making fun of shitty lawyers, etc. That doesn't really exist here.
- Hobby discussion. I'm trying my best to participate in fitness and weight lifting related subreddits but there just isn't a critical mass of commenters to get a discussion really going. Plenty of my other hobbies and interests are missing here, too.
I've deleted the reddit alts I used to use for technology related topics, parenting/relationship topics, political discussion, and stupid general purpose humor or memes, as Lemmy has enough of that I don't need Reddit for those topics. But for the ones I've listed above, I'm still using desktop "old" Reddit.
I'm also still on Instagram, but only follow people I know personally. It's the easiest way to keep up with my acquaintances' lives: who's marrying who, who's having kids, where people have moved, etc.
wrote last edited by [email protected]same here niche topics:
city related topics: not controlled by tankines or conservatives
-certain conditions, people share thier experience and treatment regiment that i have as well.
-whatisthing, or variations dont have that big of a community here.
-also job related, bio,biotech i often engage in my experience that prospect of jobs and the 'gatekeeping' in these fields.-a card game not found on here.
things like jury duty, reddit and other forums have large discussion groups there, just dont want to hear" you should be grateful to do JD,blabla as a duty to democracy" type of responses though. as i have very frequent summons, like every single year.-a youtube channel i like to talk about that turned shitheeled.
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I used both for a while there... But ehn, haven't touched my Reddit account in 3 years.
Too many nazis, and besides, Reddit's main appeal (mentioned in the thread: Reddit has a more diverse demographic as compared to only nerds here on Lemmy) doesn't really call to me because I'm Lemmy's demographic to a T, a Linux-loving left-wing queer nerd.
reddits AI ovemoderation has pretty much locked out most users now. anyone whos new or have a very old account will have been shadowbanned eventually. its probably because reddit wants to reduce the number of users overtime.
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In a way, Reddit is helping me move to Lemmy permanently by not letting me post.
basically making you go COLD TURKEY by permabanning you. which occured to me too. s
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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)
I check it more often but I haven't posted / used an account in two years on spazzit. Only posting on fediverse.
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The more I see other people who were banned from Reddit for no reason, the better I feel about my own banning.
Yeah apparently reporting people for transphobia is "Abusing the Report Button"
or reporting people for spam or spreading disinformation for turmp is also one too. i got misinterprated on a lgbtq+ comment once, but i was able to convince mod that it wasnt even a anti-lgbtq+ comment.
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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 haven't used reddit since they removed the free API that FOSS apps were using. Lemmy is the only "reddit like" that I've used since.
As for other social media, I left Facebook over 10 years ago, never used twitter, or anything newer that isn't FOSS and federated.
I've used mastodon since 2017.
So I guess that makes me hardcore? -
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 have a blue sky account. But I’m mainly on the fediverse
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Me, but that's because Reddit permabanned me on the post- inauguration bloodbath.
In some ways I like Lemmy a lot better for things like politics. It doesn't have all the puns, trolls, Russian Propaganda Farmers, bots, novelty accounts, etc., so while they are fewer comments, they tend to be more substantial. I can also mostly say what I think without getting suspended.
On the other hand, I miss some of the personal forums, which are far more active on Reddit. I'd like the guitar forums to be more active, but they barely have any posts. Most have weeks or even months between posts, while Reddits have a constant flow, every minute. I keep saying that I'm going to start posting content as often as possible, but I haven't yet. Maybe I'll start this week.
wrote last edited by [email protected]i had no choice but to block politics on lemmy, for one they thought my criticism of israeli aggression and censorship of usA university was a antisemitic NAZI ploy, i was like wtf
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I think my Reddit account still exists, but I haven't logged in since 3rd party apps stopped working. It took me a bit to find Lemmy, and I'm still not on it was frequently as I was on Reddit.
I deleted my Twitter account when they announced they would be training grok on my tweets. I hadn't logged into it since Elmu mass-banned a bunch of journalists for retweeting the "Elon's Jet" account. I decided Mastodon was more likely to not get between me and the journalists I wanted to see microblogs from.
I'm not hardcore. I an still well-entrenched in the Google ecosystem (primarily YT). I still have a Facebook account, and occasionally login to un-tag myself. I use Amazon Pay / Paypal whenever I can, tho I at least stopped paying for Prime when they decided to start putting ads in Prime Video stuff.
wrote last edited by [email protected]did you know reddit started shadowbanning new accounts, and old inactive accounts that suddenly started posting. it was a recent thing, it wouldve happened to people who dint use thier old inactive accounts eventually. also reddit have been extremely oppressive with thier filters, and sub filters too.
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I am ip banned from reddit for making 'threats' only check reddit as a news aggregate because it's a little quicker
shadowban is pratically an ip ban. only way around it is if your device and ip is new.
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I'm on Lemmy because Reddit devs are letting their AI auto-ban their more intelligent users. Isn't that similar to letting Telsa's auto-drive into an auto-accident?
wrote last edited by [email protected]its mostly propaganda bots from russia, iran, and israeli right now. and now we have PALINTIR bots there too. i wouldnt be suprise musk has his bots on there shilling for tesla. 50% are probably the above bots.
the of users, the link farmers, are the lowest hanging fruits they go after. i heard they ignored the palintir bots.
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Only lemmy, I'm too spicy for corporate social media. Now if I said insane racist shit in support of trump, I'd be fine. But that's not me. I'm pointedly in favor of personal freedoms. Which is NOT in line with the end user agreements.
depends on which subs, maybe on one of the conservative subs, but those are controlled by russia funny enough.
