How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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.
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Yea, it's getting worse everyday.
Feels like reddit is Altmans bitch, since they made the ai deal
they are altmans and googles bitch. since reddit is also on googles top search results, plus they also uses google v3 captcha for free, which is thier sneaky way of moderation and bannings too.
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Yeah I'm trying to stick to Lemmy, but all the communities I joined when I signed up turned out to be dead.
im guessing most of them left or moved back to reddit for the same reason. more and more people wouldve have to get banned on reddit for them to come here, its just too addicting.
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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.
Mostly the same, but when I need to search for something and reddit is in the top search results, I do look at it.
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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?
About the "hardcore" and msm, I do check msm, and try to use multiple sources and more balanced media sources. News on lemmy definitely isn't neutral.
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What interests in particular do you think aren't well represented?
an online card game, niche sub like a more extensive whatisthisthing, medical conditions(experiences not asking for diagnosis, but it almost always ends up is it this?), Specific youtube channels not the big youtubers but niche ones you probably never heard of it.
location based communities, that hasnt been taken over by holier than thou people.
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I switched to Lemmy after Reddit killed bacon reader. Never looked back. joined world and discovered defederation drama. Joined lemm.ee. now I'm on .zip. I don't want my instance dictating what I see. Even if it is the trifecta.
I use Mastodon also. I occasionally watch YouTube, but I don't post, and I definitely don't engage in the comments section.
Have not used Facebook in a decade. Not interested in tiktok or shorts. Occasionally pushed to imgur for the memes.
i made one on .today i posted a couple times, but i will be moving over after ee shutsdown, and possibly make a new instance account like piefed.
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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 only ever marginaly used reddit, ages ago.
What's so hardcore about preferring social media over algorithms?
