How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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?
No Reddit for me. Had a 10+ year old account there. Disabling 3rd party apps was a clear sign that the platform was no longer a good place to be.
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Who do you choose to follow on Mastodon
wrote last edited by [email protected]Mixture of people who use the same linux distro as me (gentoo), FOSS devs and people I find using hashtags with my interests in them (RPG & JRPG games, movies, sports, etc.)
Edit: also called steeznson on there, instance is glasgow.social if you want to find 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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I wouldn't call it 'hardcore' not to use crap like that. I've never used Reddit, Twitter instagram or any of that (with one brief exception). Only the Fediverse. Made my mastodon account in 2018 and that's all I used until I made this Lemmy account last year.
The exception was: back about 15 years or so ago, some people talked me into making a facebook account because they had a group on there. I reluctantly made the account and read their posts for a while but it was just stupid meaningless tripe, so I never posted anything on there and after a while I deleted the account. During that time it was apparently hijacked because I logged on and someone had made a completely weird profile on it. Don't know how they did it but I changed the password and removed the stuff which seemed to work, that's when I submitted the deletion request to FB though who knows what happened to it after that.
edit: I should add that I do use Youtube (mainly via Freetube but not always) and I do read reddit posts when I search for things and it comes up as a relevant result.
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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 primarily use lemmy these days, but still have to use a few other things.
I still browse reddit for this like episode discussion threads for amine and other tv. lemmy will have maybe 5 responses in the threads for the 3 biggest shows of a season. it's just not there yet.
I'm also a videographer, in our modern age that means i NEED to be on Instagram, YouTube, and tiktok because those are the platforms everyone wants me to make things for. can't know how to make things for a platform I don't use, sadly. especially since "just make something good" doesn't work on any of them. in fact making something that looks good is often more of a hinderence these days and it kills me.
i hate short form video. i hate every mainstream social media platform. i just want to make pretty videos and not have to deal with tiktok trends. I learned 10 ways to attach a lav mic secure and tidy in school. I must now hold the lav mic in my fingers because that's what's trendy and following the trends is the ONE thing that DEFINITELY works.
I hate what has come of my profession. at this point I'm just ready for the ai to take my job so i can blow my head off in peace.
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I don't disagree, but what are the other/additional ways these announcements should be made that are effective? Besides word of mouth.
Larger orgs probably have their own website, and could put it there and/or make an RSS feed. That's old tech, and probably not as popular because it can't be monetized like twitter/facebook/etc.
There's also email, which is typically free. It's less fancy, but it's also very open. You don't get good discoverability, though. Some bands I like send out newsletters and that's how I keep up with them.
Lastly, the fediverse exists. It has some of the problems of social media, but at least it's not owned by a handful of rich assholes.
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No Reddit for me. Had a 10+ year old account there. Disabling 3rd party apps was a clear sign that the platform was no longer a good place to be.
Exactly the same, only using Lemmy now. It's cozy here
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I left Reddit 2 or 3 years back and have only used Lemmy since.
I joined through Lemm.ee so recently had to move over to Lemmy.zip
I think this was a net positive for me overall. Lemmy has a lot less content which helped me break the “I’m slightly bored let me pull out my phone and scroll Reddit” addiction I didn’t even realize I had. Now I check Lemmy maybe once or twice a day, still see the big important events and the couple communities I care about.
I was never one for twitter, so I don’t bother with trying to find a replacement for that.
Overall the less social media I use the better I feel. I think future generations will look back on our constant use of social media and dopamine mining the same way we look back on how people used to smoke everywhere.
We know it’s bad for us, but we like the dopamine so everyone just does it everywhere, we give toddlers tablets so they can start dopamine mining as early as possible. I hope our descendants look back at this time with a sense of “holy shit they just let people smoke in the nurseries at the hospital?!”
Good analogy.
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Me. I got banned for saying I wished MTG would trip and swallow her own head- apparently this was inciting violence. I appealed twice, then gave up. Also killing off Apollo pretty much soured me, and then everything went total bot farm bullshit. So, lemmy for me from now on!
That's tremendously funny.
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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 only since the reddit purge
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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 am using Lemmy only. I may be doing something wrong, because can not access any other Instances. Lemmy World only... need more practice I reckon...
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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 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.
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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]Not using mainstream social media isn't "hard core" - it is being sensible and actually giving a shit.
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I am one that only uses Lemmy
Never heard of 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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I only use Lemmy and deleted my reddit account. I didn't bother with Mastadon or BlueSky. Then again I didn't bother with Facebook or Twatter either. If it's important it does bubble up to Lemmy with less bots and brigading going on so that's a plus. I do have a few YouTube channels I watch that are either about fixing stuff or oddball humor. From my own personal observation, there is a noticable difference between social media addict behavior and people who don't make it their entire existence.
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Exactly the same, only using Lemmy now. It's cozy here
Me, too. Got Sync as soon as it was available and haven't looked back.
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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?
Created this account two years ago in the big fuck u/spez boom, forgot about it for two years, and started transition to fedi a few months ago, don’t use Reddit, sometimes peek onto twitter (via nitter) to piss myself off
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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?
Probably about 99% Lemmy but occasionally there just isn’t a community in the Fediverse or doesn’t have the traffic that Reddit does. But I avoid Reddit as much as possible. Its devolved into an AI driven echo chamber.
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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 logged in a few times after creating my account here, but now I don't even bother.
It was fun, it got worse, and now it's full on garbage.
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I only use Lemmy since the reddit API Fuck up.
Sometimes, if I am looking for information, I visit reddit, but I treat it like any other random forum I look up something, take the info and fuck off again.
I use YouTube, if you wanna count that. I don't comment there and use Newpipe or PipePipe, so only consuming and no participation there too.
I haven't used any other social media, like Facebook or Instagram, so nothing hardcore for me in just continuing not to do so.
Same on all fronts. Not commenting on YouTube has been a good thing I'd say 90% of the time, it's a terrible place to try to have a discussion with their comment format.
Using Reddit even for occasional information is becoming a pain in the arse now with a lot of stuff locked behind login or behind other hurdles like CAPTCHA / AI challenges. They don't like us 'dine and dash' visitors it seems.
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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 got banned from reddit for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and my appeal was declined in minutes. This has led me to the conclusion that Reddit is pro nazi and ban evasion is a lot of work.
I do still peep at it because ngl Lemmy doesn't have that endless stream of content going.
