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?
Ah ya. Two years ago, I used to use both. Reddit old via Firefox mobile and lemmy via sync. Now I just lemmy because reddit is both cumbersome to use and, for lack of a better word, generic. The interaction doesn't feel real.
So now I just lemmy.Except sometimes on desktop when I browse porn. There. I said it.
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Lemmy is the only one I check daily. I don't bother with reddit unless I'm using a search engine and can't find the answer I'm looking for. Even then, reddit's not all that great anymore since a huge chunk of the user base deleted all their shit and left.
Right? Stopped being a site I frequent and becomes more of a thing I see in search results.
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Haven't looked at reddit since the first exodus. Feels good.
Same. Although for work i often get reddit posts for sysadmin research.
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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. No other social media, especially stuff like X or Mastodon
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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 haven’t been back since the killing of third party apps. I had no interest in using Reddit any other way. I haven’t been back and I won’t go back. The Fediverse is better in every conceivable way.
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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, piefed, mastodon, sometimes pixelated. No 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?
Lemmy only. No other social media, be it Twitter, Instagram, or any federated/FOSS alternative.
I still read some Reddit, but only signed out and I certainly don't post.
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I do lurk Reddit occasionally (using old.reddit.com only) and silently mod a subreddit that I'm attached to, but I don't submit posts or make new comments there anymore.
I also lurk Hacker News, Mastodon, Bluesky and Tildes.
Lemmy is my main site where I post the most.
Stop doing free work for capitalists, that's not even a Reddit thing that's just common sense. At least make them pay you.
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Is this considered "hardcore"? After the mobile apps bit the dust I left and never looked back. I don't like meta stuff because of privacy concerns. Fediverse only for me
The Fediverse is definitely not great privacy wise but it's certainly not bad compared to a Facebook profile.
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What interests in particular do you think aren't well represented?
Artwork, hobbies, videos, cooking, health. Some of these are present in some form on here but not to significant volume or to my particular tastes. And many more things that have no presence on Lemmy at all.
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In want to like Mastadon or Twitter, but its like....who are these people and why do I care?
Doesn't that apply to pretty much all platforms though?
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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 all the time. I sometimes read Threads, though only when they recommended a story via Instagram, where my meme friends are
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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 exclusively use Lemmy on my phone, only time I use reddit if I'm searching something and it pops up in the results because it usually has the answer or gets me closer to it
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Yeah I'm trying to stick to Lemmy, but all the communities I joined when I signed up turned out to be dead.
Yeah. And I spent a while posting prolifically to them, but without comments, and without new posts, it's kinda pointless. I want to see OTHER people's content.
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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 quit the others when Facebook started to hold my friend's messages hostage their invasive mobile app. I figured they only wanted the app installed so they could spy on me. I was right.
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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?
Besides two niche subreddits, I stopped using reddit. So it's 90% Lemmy. I don't use much else for social media except Something Awful and a heavily manually censored Discover tab on Bluesky because I'm sick of seeing Amercians crying and their politics. I wish we could region block entire countries on our personal social media accounts.
Anyways, the focus is reddit. I don't really miss it because I could see the rot with bots, alts, power mods, site leadership, vote manipulation, etc etc.
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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 don't think it's particularly hardcore myself, I've just been moving away from platforms as they've been enshittifying. I was on reddit over ten years but left over the API thing and haven't been back. I stopped using Facebook a few years ago and haven't missed it at all. I stopped using twitter when musk bought it, tried using mastodon for a bit but it was kinda barren so I'm on bluesky now. I still check in on mastodon occasionally. I'll move on from these platforms too if they turn to shit. It's easy to get caught in a kinda sunk cost thing with platforms, but really it doesn't matter how long you've been there, how many Facebook friends you have, how much karma, whatever - if it turns to shit it's time to move on, and best go early to avoid the rush!
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I switched to Lemmy after Reddit killed bacon reader. Never looked back. joined world and discovered defederation drama. Joined lemm.ee. now I'm on .zip. I don't want my instance dictating what I see. Even if it is the trifecta.
I use Mastodon also. I occasionally watch YouTube, but I don't post, and I definitely don't engage in the comments section.
Have not used Facebook in a decade. Not interested in tiktok or shorts. Occasionally pushed to imgur for the memes.
Thanks, see you on zip I guess
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Ah ya. Two years ago, I used to use both. Reddit old via Firefox mobile and lemmy via sync. Now I just lemmy because reddit is both cumbersome to use and, for lack of a better word, generic. The interaction doesn't feel real.
So now I just lemmy.Except sometimes on desktop when I browse porn. There. I said it.
Yeah Lemmy has porn but if you want anything at all niche Reddit was better. My tastes are pretty vanilla so it's not been a problem.
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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 quite 100% yet - I still check in with R every week or two vs looking in on Lemmy daily.
