How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don't agree with any of those rules
The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience
I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups
When a website doesn't have a lively and persistent 'local' community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can't really be social
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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?
Social media ? Lemmy.
Looking up answers to a question ? Reddit. (Since you can't search lemmy)
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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 stopped using Reddit when I joined Lemmy, but I've still got a Facebook account because the family chat is in messenger, and I use Instagram because that's where a lot of important information about things like rallies and mutual aid are disseminated (it's a bonus that it's also where I find cool gigs too).
I've also got Tumblr and mastodon, but I don't use them much at all, I live here more than anywhere else.
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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 wouldn't consider exclusively using Lemmy for social media "hardcore". Let's be real, people don't use social media because the content is important. I use Lemmy when I need a break and such, see some memes, read an interesting article someone posted. And Reddit sometimes turns up when I search for opinions on products, solutions for maintaining my home, stuff like that. Usually just useful, old posts. I keep in contact with people I actually know through private chats, mostly Signal. What else do you need?
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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?
Want to leave Reddit, but content is SEVERLY LACKING on Lemmy, and the thing that keeps me away from Lemmy is
- The people , who thinks Linux is god and anyone says anything else is pure evil/villain and act accordingly here in comments EVERYWHWRE
- same as above
- I can't figure out what are Lemmy sub parts and how to access them, till date I have I access to part of Lemmy shown to me via BOOST app, but apart from that I don't know
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Im "hardcore" as you describe it, dont care about instagram facebook twatter and all that shit. Lemmy is the one little corner i inhabit and i am fine with that. Also i did have a reddit account and, recently decided to log in again for shits and giggles and most of the subs i frequented have been decimated, and are shells of their former selves. I think i made the right choice getting the hell out of there.
Yep Lemmy, YouTube, and discord only for me
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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?
If it's not in the fediverse, I'm not using it
Even youtube which I used to use in addition to the fediverse is now completely replaced by peertube -
I don't know how people can live without niche subs that simply don't exist on lemmy. I read them but I can't participate since reddit fingerprints me no matter what I do and instantly bans my new accounts.
Currently waiting for it to happen to me.... Their new rules got banned twice now for three days and then seven days.
Didn't even say anything out of the ordinary. What finally got you banned?
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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.
redreader still works for free.
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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?
the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)
I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.
Only things I'll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I'll gladly donate)
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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?
This is the only "social media" I use, alsthough its really more like a message board than modern social media.
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How has Lemmy been for you? How do you resist the call of Reddit on a Dark and stormy night?
I honestly don't consider the sea of noise over there "social" media. So I never even think to go over to it. Like others, if an answer to a question happens to be on Reddit, I'll read that while signed out.
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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]I wouldn't call it hardcore necessarily. I'm on lemmy because I walked away from reddit when they shut down api access to third party apps. I haven't had any other social media since I got rid of facebook in 2013 when Edward Snowden dropped his info. I just don't want it, to be honest. Facebook was a little hard to give up because it was the only way I stayed in touch with some folks, but honestly the important relationships survived. And all the rest - instagram, tiktok, twitter, snapchat, et al - don't really appeal to me. Especially short-form content, which I find extra annoying.
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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 personally don't use anything other than Lemmy and Whatsapp.
I use reddit but only through google search where is type reddit at the end of the search query.
Occasionally i use Instagram for local news and updates on my friends/relatives.
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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?
Lemmy is the only social media i have.
And i guess discord but that's just for my weekly d&d group and nothing else
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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?
It's not normal here? I'm only Lemmy+mastodon (with a bsky bridge)
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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]Lemmy is the only platform I participate on. I do occasionally check some niche subs on Reddit for hobbies and games I follow for news/suggestions/ideas/etc., but no idle browsing and no contributing, not even through votes.
I also sometimes pop onto Reddit just to manually edit and delete more of my comment history, because the automated tools are apparently only capable of seeing the past year. Once I finally get through everything, I can delete my account, but it's a slow process with years worth of content to remove going back to 2010.
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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?
Add me to the “hardcore” list. There’s just no need for that evil crap. I’m fine just on Lemmy, it keeps the consumption under control.
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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 guess I'm hardcore 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?
at this point I only use Lenny and Reddit is just something that comes up in search results
