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

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  • Q [email protected]

    How does this work?

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    Pretty much just nitter for reddit. Basically crawls reddit making copies of posts and comments so you can browse reddit without having to go directly to reddit. I mostly use it because reddit blocks anonymous users on vpn too much.

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    • Q [email protected]

      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?

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      What's wrong with limiting social media to Lemmy? I like it here.

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      • Q [email protected]

        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?

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        #273

        When I'm researching something and a reddit link pops up in search results, I'll check it. But I have abandoned my account and won't be logging back in. Aside from that, I try to be as hardcore as possible.

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        • E [email protected]

          I still use reddit.

          Lemmy is still missing a few things:

          • Sports discussion. There's nothing quite like the absurdity of some of the sports communities that really brightens my day, from really deep analytical insights to the dumbest meme jokes in existence.
          • City-specific local discussion. I still spend time on my city's subreddit, which helps keep me tuned in on local happenings.
          • Non-tech related career discussion. My field (law) has several subreddits useful for talking shop, growing careers, making fun of shitty lawyers, etc. That doesn't really exist here.
          • Hobby discussion. I'm trying my best to participate in fitness and weight lifting related subreddits but there just isn't a critical mass of commenters to get a discussion really going. Plenty of my other hobbies and interests are missing here, too.

          I've deleted the reddit alts I used to use for technology related topics, parenting/relationship topics, political discussion, and stupid general purpose humor or memes, as Lemmy has enough of that I don't need Reddit for those topics. But for the ones I've listed above, I'm still using desktop "old" Reddit.

          I'm also still on Instagram, but only follow people I know personally. It's the easiest way to keep up with my acquaintances' lives: who's marrying who, who's having kids, where people have moved, etc.

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          #274

          This is sadly it. If it gets niche enough, there's no way around Reddit.

          I completely replaced Reddit with Lemmy for political topics, for wasting time, for doom scrolling and so on. But when I need information about a niche topic (e.g. how to overclock the 15yo netbook I recently got), there's just no way around Reddit.

          That's the difference between 50k monthly active users and 360mio weekly active users. There are dozens of subreddits that have more active users than all of Lemmy combined...

          Sadly, the big exodus is still pending.

          Or luckily, considering how badly Lemmy instances scale. If a few million users were to migrate over to Lemmy, probably the whole system would just collapse.

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          • Q [email protected]

            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?

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            I succeeded for a while but somehow jerboa crashes all the time during the admin's holidays

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            • Q [email protected]

              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?

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              Lemmy and RSS feed is all I use. I look at things my wife and 2 others friends will send me on instagram, but I never just scroll through it

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              • Q [email protected]

                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?

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                #277

                I am ip banned from reddit for making 'threats' only check reddit as a news aggregate because it's a little quicker

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                • M [email protected]

                  Lemmy and RSS feed is all I use. I look at things my wife and 2 others friends will send me on instagram, but I never just scroll through it

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                  What's on your RSS feed? Isn't RSS dying?

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                  • C [email protected]

                    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!

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                    What a glorious visual

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                    • Q [email protected]

                      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?

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                      I still use reddit on Apollo without logging in, guess I’m not hardcore 😛

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                      • I [email protected]

                        Just started using Lemmy. I’m getting used to it and like it for a lot of things but there’s literally no sports communities which I used Reddit for a lot so I don’t think I can completely stop using Reddit.

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                        Mastodon is where most of the sports content is

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                        • B [email protected]

                          When I'm researching something and a reddit link pops up in search results, I'll check it. But I have abandoned my account and won't be logging back in. Aside from that, I try to be as hardcore as possible.

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                          Same. I've used reddit.... twice(?) since April. I only click a reddit link if I have to.

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                            I still use reddit on Apollo without logging in, guess I’m not hardcore 😛

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                            I thought they killed those aps

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                            • Q [email protected]

                              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?

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                              I just deleted my Reddit account, it's no good to me since they banned my account for "Abusing the report button" and wouldn't unban it no matter how many appeals I sent in. Part of me thought, maybe they'd unban it some day, but... naw... better to just walk away

                              I hope it goes the way of YTMND and becomes a distant memory. Although with YTMND my memories are at least pleasant.

                              I just hope someday the "Niche Interest" sublemmies become more active

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                                I am ip banned from reddit for making 'threats' only check reddit as a news aggregate because it's a little quicker

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                                I'm banned from Reddit for "abusing the report button"

                                Apparently when you're in an argument and the other person is using personal attacks, that's NOT the time to use the report button. Just deleted the account, it was banned anyway.

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                                  In a way, Reddit is helping me move to Lemmy permanently by not letting me post.

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                                  The more I see other people who were banned from Reddit for no reason, the better I feel about my own banning.

                                  Yeah apparently reporting people for transphobia is "Abusing the Report Button"

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                                  • Q [email protected]

                                    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?

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                                    #287

                                    I don't use social media at all.

                                    As far as Reddit/Lemmy, I only use Lemmy.

                                    I did have a reddit account at one point but it only had a handful of posts, mostly gratitude for solutions to problems I was searching about, with reddit being the top return with the correct answer... Got banned for some reason though, so even if I had interest in using reddit (which I dont),I cant anymore, lol.

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                                    • Q [email protected]

                                      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?

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                                      I only use Lemmy. Not because I’m hardcore about the fediverse or anything, but because I wanted to start moving off all major social media. Now I rarely engage with any social media and I think it’s done wonders for my mental health.

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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?

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                                        This is it unless you count discord as social media,or twitch?

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                                        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netG [email protected]

                                          I'm such a solipsist, I'm surprised reddit is still relevant to anyone. I certainly come across some posts when searching for tech or product questions, but that's it.

                                          Although even outside of the fedi, I spend more and more of my time just looking at people's individual websites and blogs. I've got a basically bottomless RSS feed curated by this point, so I don't even need an aggregator for the scroll -- I've got my own.

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                                          I do miss reddit, mainly because the Sonic, DBD, and other niche interest boards aren't active on Lemmy

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