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

[jakenveina@midwest.social]

Me. I came here to get AWAY from reddit, why the hell would I use it anymore?

[geodad@lemmy.world]

I only use Lemmy.

The main reason is that Redditt banned me for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a nazi.

[flickerby@lemm.ee]

Made this account when they ditched RiF. Gonna have to ditch it for a new one on .zip in a few days

[zwuzelmaus@feddit.org]

Yes, I switched to Lemmy and then never looked back. Didn't know that this was "hardcore"

And no, not interested in face twit tok etc. but I sometimes watch a few things on yt (without being "social" there).

[macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world]

Fedivese only 2 years on (Lemmy + Mastodon)
Left reddit when the whole API bullshit started.

[libb@jlai.lu]

I'm not hardcore anything but I quit using Reddit and have not looked back. I also don't use any other social, even tough I own other accounts I have not logged into for many years.

Why I don't see myself hardcore? Because there is no hate, or anger and no desire to preach anyone to switch either. I respect people's choice. I disagreed with a few of reddit decisions & their policy change back then and took my decision accordingly. I posted a goodbye note explaining why I left reddit and switched to Lemmy. The same with X, Facebook, or whatever: when I realized I could not trust those services, I told people around me and moved away.

[mintiefresh@lemmy.ca]

I am almost Lemmy/Piefed exclusive now. Sometimes I visit Reddit for some niche topics but I'm usually logged out and never comment there.

[winni@lemmy.world]

I never used reddit. Looking for technical information, I found reddit to be very intrusive while searching technical information, until I found the addon highlight or hide search results for firefox, which lets me hide reddit (and youtube) in search results

[benni@lemmy.world]

I agree that reddit sucks but why do you think it's not anime friendly?

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

Lemmy is my main social media. I don't use anything else. Occasionally, I still get reddit in my search results though.

Oh, I also use Discord.

[etterra@discuss.online]

Almost, because my niche gaming hobby has no Lemmy community.

[real_squids@sopuli.xyz]

Same, used a workaround for a while but then got tired of it and my favorite client got a lemmy version. Smaller places are more fun.

[real_squids@sopuli.xyz]

I still have Stealth, though browsers are probably better since you get more control and therefore privacy

[moonweedbaddegrasse@lemmy.world]

Reddit banned me, bizarrely, so I now only use Lemmy and Bluesky.

[agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works]

For daily browsing, pure Lemmy.

Researching a problem or future purchase, I'm still putting site:reddit.com in the search bar. I love you Lemmy, but you're just not there yet.

[tyler@programming.dev]

Reddit isn’t social media, YouTube isn’t social media. People started branding anything with a comment thread as social media and it’s nonsensical. Criteria for social media: 1. Must allow following any user 2. Users must not be anonymous 3. Must be able to interact with, chat, send messages to, etc. any user. 4. All of the above must be the main point of the site.

Reddit is a forum of forums. The point is aggregated news feed for different forums. User to user social interaction is not the main point, and the user to user interaction that occurs is forum interaction, which existed decades before social media.

YouTube is a video sharing site. It has comment sections just like any news site.

If YouTube is social media then literally any news site is social media. If Reddit is social media then every forum on the planet is social media. Neither of those things make sense, therefore they’re not social media.

Sorry I just absolutely hate that everyone refers to anything with a comment section as social media now. It completely devalues the word and makes it meaningless.

[ougie@lemmy.world]

I've not gone back to reddit since the big exodus a couple of years ago, was it? Aside from checking specific threads about pc issues I run into etc... Well actually I never had an account on reddit tbh, I was just browsing so I don't know if it counts.

[audaxdreik@pawb.social]

Oh shoot! I missed posting to this topic on my cakeday by 20 minutes, but me!

Came over after they killed third party apps because I couldn't use my beloved Sync, which is now never updated anyways.

I'm not ashamed to admit I moved to Reddit during the great Digg migration. Platforms come and go, you just keep on rolling.

In all seriousness, I do feel like content has got better here in that time and I enjoy the raw, early Internet vibes. There's still plenty of room to grow, but I feel very positive about it all.

[thefriendlydickhead@feddit.org]

I mostly just use Lemmy. On rare occasions I check Instagram, but only if friends of mine post something (got notifications turned on for everybody I care about)

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

I use Lemmy and Bluesky since I'm banned on Reddit and it's no longer worth bothering with ban evasion. I'm also testing Mastodon through Pachli because Bluesky has kinda started going on my nerves with all the luke warm "Dems need to save the US" takes. I wisth there was a federated platform for short form vertical videos like tiktok. It's probably not feasible as a non profit project but something inside of me is still chasing the high of early pandemic social media.