How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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I still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.
I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it's pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.
FB, impossible to make an account without giving too much of your personal info away.
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Just lemmy for some years now. I do miss the Reddit of the olden days though. You know, when there was still some Aaron Schwartz in it.
Back in the day I could go online and ask every goddamn question and a real person would give me an answer. There was this treasure trove of knowledge and opinions. Lemmy is sadly not quite there yet, but the memes are spicy and I like those nice socks you computer people wear.
I dream of the day, when somebody shuts down the internet. Because I know, all you sock wearing and Linux wielding Weirdos will get your shit running again the fastest.
reddit only started clamping down politically, because of trumps 1st term, hence made it harder to say certain things, because bots are astroturfing everything.
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I still browse reddit but I was banned a long while ago. Guess I thumbed up too many Luigi posts lol
I go here to post (just wish I could find similar threads/subreddit or whatever. I miss posting on niche subjects)
they also block FB, and facebook as a word now.
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I switched to lemmy about two years ago and went almost cold turkey. There was one community on reddit that I returned to a couple of times in the first few weeks, but even that stopped as it just wasn’t worth it. I have been to reddit a few times since, but only when trying to solve a problem and reddit comes up as a search result, and only after trying other sources first.
wrote last edited by [email protected]i got permaban 99% of my accounts initially early this year, tried to play it safe with a single old account by only visiting niche communities, but shadowban eventually caught up with my account. i suspect it was triggered when i tried to switch toa firefox fork+ a mod removed one of my comments in a niche sub.
1st thing it did is force you to change password then the ban was immediate. i suspect they were using the "change password" trick to ban people.
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Yes, hi. I have fully abandoned antisocial media.
Stuff is not important anyway, no matter where it is posted. I get input here, which is okay. But the most important part is: I dont get centrally controlled propaganda and am able to form my own input as I can handle it.
it was glaringly obvious reddit was allow propaganda bots to fester on reddit for quite some time, even palintir is making headways in the site.
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It's a very quick way to end up in an echo chamber, Lemmy is a very niche platform. I try to keep up with Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon. Not a huge amount better, but it's a bit more variety than one tiny service.
you used to stay long enough to be able to be in one, but reddit now just bans people so quickly you dont have time to create history on the site, its all done by Ai.
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Well i do use youtube but other than that i basically only use non-mainstream social media. I also use snapchat but only for messaging.
wrote last edited by [email protected]youtube is fine as long as try not to comment on certain videos, and have adblock on. because you would get astroturfed by "fans of that channel, or right wingers", also not logging in helps, stop google from collecting data on your activities. i commented on isaip and nutrek videos and you were met with stupid commentors that think the current path of these shows is a good thing.
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youtube is fine as long as try not to comment on certain videos, and have adblock on. because you would get astroturfed by "fans of that channel, or right wingers", also not logging in helps, stop google from collecting data on your activities. i commented on isaip and nutrek videos and you were met with stupid commentors that think the current path of these shows is a good thing.
Yeah i dont log in, have adblock, etc. Youtube is actually usable this way. No shorts either.
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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..
wrote last edited by [email protected]i think the increased activitiy is from the massive purges by reddit recently. starting from nov 5 they were purging like 1-2 times by the end of the year, by february they were on thier 4th large purge. and most came here. and then they started banning people based on words, or simple activities. my first stop after getting banned, was actually in another forum and they reported large purges and thier hundreds+ accts all were hit
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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 stopped 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 it is, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage
that people seem to emotionally brand such a large classification as. Shame about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also always 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.
FB is ostly AI, and right wing content. i never thought of using that site due to that. and some younger people that use that site still before tiktok, were low-key stalking people
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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 bothered with anything , except for redit and youtube, and now lemmy, and will be on piefed eventually.
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I only use reddit anymore for the meta. It's like a zoo. Its users are scarcely self-aware. I know this is conceited but whatever.
I think lemmy being a reddit clone is rather ill-fated but at least for now people generally still post like real human beings. There's something strange about how dialog is basically an algorithm. Reddit is reached some sort of maximum where nothing you can possibly say will deviate the flow of comment sections from the pre-defined talking points. It's like they're all stuck in neurotic thought cycles.
There's a video with Trevor Noah and John Stewart where they talk about how social media is a performance. It's not a "town square" or whatever. It's not really honest in good faith dialog.
you can thank the massive amount of propaganda botting that goes on.
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I maintain a reddit account linked to a burner email so that I can occasionally ask questions that I can't find the answer too elsewhere. Other than that the only social media I use is Lemmy.
wrote last edited by [email protected]they found all my accts and banned while not even violating any ban evaders, they decided that AI was good enough to MODERATE. usually people were able to use a different accounts and avoid posting on a sub that was hit with subreddit ban, now they look at all your accts for that. also once you get temp ban, all your accounts on the same IP are most likely flagged if they arnt banned immediately.
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It is not hardcore i'd actually advise anyone to limit its media following for its own mental health.
I never feel better than on vacation during which I barely check news and internetwhen i was on reddit, was addicted to it. i do stay on it occasionally to look up some posts, but since i cant engage because of bans i move on quickly. right now im looking at old posts jury duty, because i got one coming up. no community here yet.
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only use lemmy. This is like my 6th account, and instance hop. Definitely a system that works better for me.
new to lemmy. what is the significance of instance hopping or multiple accounts on this platform?
when some instances becomes to extreme, like politically, ie tankie instances or show too much censorship. plus lemmy.ee is shutting down soon too. you want to switch to a different instance.
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Lemmy only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.
wrote last edited by [email protected]reddit is like Yahoo answers/+ qoura+ answers.com. but only the other 2 reddit gatekeeps and bans more readily than the first 2. YA was a favorite because you can ask anything, it was also comic relief because there were stupid questions.
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I'm trying to leave #Meta apps for the #Fediverse. However, It is not easy because Most of my contacts are there and there is not so much local discussion here
Same problem.
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It’s weird even a few months backI would see vastly more overt racism here than on reddit. I looked at a few subs in reddit’s all recently and the overt racism got intense fast.
which communities and instances? the only ones i see are the political ones that are causing this issue, this includes the tankie ones. i blocked those. Reddit bans people more readily thats why you dont see it as much, but reddit still has much more propaganda-racist posts than here.
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yep. i just need to know what's going on but i don't need to 'hang out'. lemmy doesn't have enough news to see the big picture.
yup , also communities on reddit are not on here and niches that are exclusive to certain genre.
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My 10+ year old account with high karma was perma banned overnight I got into an argument with a power tripping rad left mod. I'm left leaning politically, however if you arent rad left on Reddit then youre a fascist. They love that echo chamber. Honestly one of the best thibgs to ever happen to me. Reddit is bad for your mental health. And their power tripping mods are pretty much nazis
ive seen alot more right wingers than "left" almost anything left is astroturfed on reddit, which subs are seeing it in?.
