How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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?
during the height of the ban purges in early feb, i was banned for 7 days, and then it triggered full bans for my other accounts without reason.
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I reported a post for severe misandry. Respectfully, I might add. Some loser admin did not like that.
i was originally banned in a lgbtq+ for allegley promoting homophobia, when i appealed they acknowledge the misunderstanding and unbanned me on tha tsub. but the real bans came when they started purging accounts when trump was doing all tariffs early in the year.
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I don’t have any mainstream media accounts and I’m pretty happy with that choice.
Although honestly I feel like Lemmy is feeling a lot like second Reddit recently and I’m pretty sad about this. See: dozens and dozens of low effort moth memes on feed now.
writing was on the wall, when spez started to thirst for musk.
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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)
reddit does it so obvious now, allows right wing content to overtake any other discussion, and discussion of trump is 99% of reddit right now, and not the important things hes doing behind the scenes.
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Lemmy is also being manipulated, but here it's primarily through users. It's a problem you'll have on any social media, particularly if fully anonymous.
its easier to catch propaganda users here, since theres less people, and block them.
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Reddit stopped being mainstream for me since the API bullshit, so... hardcore I am, guess I
funny thing is reddit blocks FB, and facebook as a word now. dont want to be called facebook2.0, because thats what reddit is 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?
I don't have an account on other social media.
Once in a while I do searches like "alternative to X site:reddit.com" for software, movie recommendations, etc. So I do use it, just don't participate. Mostly because it's designed to breed hate and distrust.
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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?
Joined when Boost for reddit stopped working for me a couple of months ago. Now I check the new here and open reddit when I'm just doom scrolling.
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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 check Reddit like 5-10 minutes a week max and usually only if i land there via searches and just do a quick gloss over anything ive potentially missed. But compare that to the hours a week in habitually using lemmy (for better and/or worse i guess haha)
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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?
Ever since they killed third party apps, I stopped using it on my phone. Now whenever I have time to kill on my phone, I'm on Lemmy. My PC still has the old interface and such, so i still check it from time to time at home, but never on mobile. I'm on mobile for news far more than at my desktop.
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from what ive heard all the location based subs{cities,,,etc} have been overtaken by mostly conservatives and tankies of those areas. even my super blue area is met with " do your duty and obey,,,,etc"
I heard something similar. And that any "blue" or "neutral" comment is followed by an immediate suspension or outright ban. I haven't witnessed it myself, though, since I haven't been active on Reddit in over a year 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?
Literally the only social media I use (apart from signal, if that counts).
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I don't have an account on other social media.
Once in a while I do searches like "alternative to X site:reddit.com" for software, movie recommendations, etc. So I do use it, just don't participate. Mostly because it's designed to breed hate and distrust.
same here
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I cold-turkeyed reddit.
Also noticed when I type reddit on android app search-bar thing sync shows up for some reason.
many of us were forced from reddit from the purges they have been doing.
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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 stopped contributing on Reddit a long time ago and only visit niche communities as a news feeds mostly.
I've actually been working on scraping powered rss feed generator of my own to avoid visiting reddit all together but turns out its a bit more than a weekend project to put all of the pieces together.
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Ya Reddit is crazy for the amount of people you can find in a Niche community. From a random health condition you may have, to one specific video game that is 20+ years old.
reddit has a whole host subs specifically for general health conditions, to dermatology or to the one you may have. im visit subs of conditions i have to look into other peoples experiences.
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I deleted my Reddit account and switched to Lemmy after the API stuff. I kinda regret deleting my account because it wasn’t until after that I learned about the apps that would scrub your comment history, but Reddit has a tendency to roll those back anyway.
I still sometimes end up on a Reddit thread when searching for some technical issue, but I generally try to browse other forums for solutions first if possible.
ETA: all other social media stuff like Instagram and Facebook I deleted around the time of Trump’s first election. Just got sick of the constant stream of bullshit.
reddit is pretty hostile to new accounts anyways, due to recent changes.
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I was on Reddit a long time, never had a Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Snapchat, back in the dark ages I used Usenet but not AOL or Myspace or anything like that. I try not to use much that is not anonymous.
For a couple of years now just Lemmy, in those two years I have put I think 4 posts on Reddit (people with local questions, Lemmy is not big enough for a good local sub.), and look at it maybe once every two months, not browsing but in answer to specific questions.
I wouldn't describe myself as hardcore, though. Regular person. I look at the phone's news feed, talk to other people, get information other places.
wrote last edited by [email protected]i dint discover reddit until 2012-13ish, when when looking for friendsafari exchanges, i unknowingly was using reddit at the time. thats how i discovered reddit, when i looked at the forum i signed up to but dont know that it was reddit at that time. it was also the last accounts to be shadowbanned this year too. i only knew about that old account because mutliple emails alerts were being sent to my phone that i recieved multiple permabans at once. due to a temp ban triggering it.
i think reddit's permaban purges died down, but they resorted to shadowbanning excessively, which is more stealthy. i noticed people were less likely to report it on other forums when they are shadowbanned, because it doesnt tell you that you are banned in anyway, reddit started to abuse the fuck out of this moderation.
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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?
Only using Lemmy and don't miss mainstream social media
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Reddit started having ads and i noped out. Was really only using it for porn lol
with ublock origin i never had ads, for ads, reddit wasnt as intrusive as other sites with ads. but now we see reddit is rpetty desperate for them now.
