How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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.
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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.
