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?
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.
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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?
Thanks for the reminder to go delete my old comments and posts. Reddit is dead to me. I stopped using it two years ago. I'll occasionally go there if there's a legit looking search result for what I'm looking for, but I don't bother logging in or interacting with the platform. Reddit is blocked by my work, which is typically what I'm searching for from there so it's useless anyways.
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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.
Yeah, I ask because I'd really like to start moderating or contributing to some type of community that is very popular outside of Lemmy but not currently on Lemmy much. Art seems like a good one. Cooking too potentially. I wonder what would bring the most new visitors to 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?
Reddit sucks. I'm here only.
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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]most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently. im here instead, because reddit would just ban any new accounts after you been shadowbanned, if your not using ban evasion methods which cost some money: like new IP, mobile phone, browser,,,,etc.
ALso the significant amount of astroturfing and gatekeeping of political and news discussion on reddit is enough to trigger arguments on both sides getting you banned. plus reddit also using AI moderation to ban people indiscriminately. plus the amount of bots are staggering. its too easy to get banned on reddit, if you try to engage in any of the most controversial subs.
most cities,counties, country subreddits have been taken over by consevatives, and goody two shoes people, so its hard to engage in your regions sub most of teh time.
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Get permabanned for saying nazis should die lol
Honestly I am still struggling to avoid it, I browse a lot still, but they are no longer getting my content for free because I literally cannot.
i would revisit the niche subs i no longer can engage in, because the bigger subs/ and reddit has started banning people en masse.
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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 use Lemmy 99.999% of the time. I asked a plumbing question on Reddit, some radio questions a few months back, and that's really all I can remember. I don't browse it. I don't avoid it if search results go there though. But I don't seek it out often at all.
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most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently. im here instead, because reddit would just ban any new accounts after you been shadowbanned, if your not using ban evasion methods which cost some money: like new IP, mobile phone, browser,,,,etc.
ALso the significant amount of astroturfing and gatekeeping of political and news discussion on reddit is enough to trigger arguments on both sides getting you banned. plus reddit also using AI moderation to ban people indiscriminately. plus the amount of bots are staggering. its too easy to get banned on reddit, if you try to engage in any of the most controversial subs.
most cities,counties, country subreddits have been taken over by consevatives, and goody two shoes people, so its hard to engage in your regions sub most of teh time.
most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently.
Doubt. A lot of us are here because of the API changes in July of 2023.
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Is this place really that small?
wrote last edited by [email protected]very small, lemmy has about less than 100k users, reddit has 100million+accounts, well you can consider half of people posting or commenting is mostly bots. also new accounts are generated in large numbers by spammers of link farmers, or people who have side businesses.
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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]Reddit has some sort of permabanned me, so I cannot get even new accounts there. So you guys get to enjoy me here, yay!
They unfortunately still have the critical mass, and even though Lemmy is getting better on that front, there's just so much more stuff on Reddit.
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Reddit backstabbing the 3rd party app developers was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Found my way here during that shitstorm. Full deletion of my Reddit accound, haven't looked back. The quality of Lemmy has left me no desire to relapse.
true, even if you dint deleted, reddit wouldve been banning you randomly anyways.
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Im permanent banned from reddit. So yes. I am only here now.
wrote last edited by [email protected]permabanned at first, shadowbanned later, which is basically total ban, any new acc is usually shadowbanned. while permaban usually restricts to that one account: assuming you dont make the same mistakes again witha new account. and they keep coming up with new ways to detect ban evaders.
