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?
That's where I'm at. Reddit was the only social media I was using, now it's just Lemmy. I don't consider it "hardcore" or some kind of bragging right, I'm just happier without 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]Trump's election is what did it for me. That and Reddit's user experience had become so watered down with slop and bad content presentation in general. I've unsubscribed from Amazon, no Paypal, deleted Facebook, stopped using Gmail mostly (still working on that), deleted Instagram, stopped watching CNN, stopped allowing tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible. If your site tracks, I'm using another unless it is reasonable for the application.
Since then, on my phone, I use FOSS browser, NextDNS, Eternity for Lemmy, Pixelfed and Mastodon. For all my searching, I started using Swisscows, but now I am searching with SearxNG. Also, I am trying Proton, Tutanota, and kollabnow for email. Got Arch Linux on laptop because Microsoft tracking and snooping is so far out of control it should be illegal 50 different ways.
Fuck those techbros. This is now our civic duty.
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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 only use lemmy. I'll need an alternative for Discord soon.
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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?
Permabanned from reddit and don't feel like going through the hassle of bypassing it. I still browse every now and then for niche content that just doesn't exist on Lemmy but otherwise I'm on here exclusively.
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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?
Fucking reactionaries almost everywhere on "mainstream" where one's words are being vetted so as not to displease the shits, which put me here now.
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Til that I'm hardcore
There are dozens of us!
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I had seven billion updoots or whatever on reddit. I haven't used it for 2 years.
Also, why is that "hardcore"? You might want to reevaluate your relationshio with social media and computing. If you can't disconnect from it that sounds unhealthy.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You must be really likeable. People downvoted the shit out of me on Reddit. I always hoped people didn't hate what I said enough to downvote that much in real life.
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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?
Added this to my hosts file 3 years ago when stormfront went full corporate sock puppets and censorship:
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
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Trump's election is what did it for me. That and Reddit's user experience had become so watered down with slop and bad content presentation in general. I've unsubscribed from Amazon, no Paypal, deleted Facebook, stopped using Gmail mostly (still working on that), deleted Instagram, stopped watching CNN, stopped allowing tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible. If your site tracks, I'm using another unless it is reasonable for the application.
Since then, on my phone, I use FOSS browser, NextDNS, Eternity for Lemmy, Pixelfed and Mastodon. For all my searching, I started using Swisscows, but now I am searching with SearxNG. Also, I am trying Proton, Tutanota, and kollabnow for email. Got Arch Linux on laptop because Microsoft tracking and snooping is so far out of control it should be illegal 50 different ways.
Fuck those techbros. This is now our civic duty.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I am with you in that, and you are not alone!
And this is the best feeling to know that we still have our free internet regardless of those capitalistic fucks who forgot their roots.
(And for what even? Greed and money? lol, so much sacrifice for such outdated desires).
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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.
Yea, it's getting worse everyday.
Feels like reddit is Altmans bitch, since they made the ai deal
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Permabanned from reddit and don't feel like going through the hassle of bypassing it. I still browse every now and then for niche content that just doesn't exist on Lemmy but otherwise I'm on here exclusively.
What did you do?
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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 is the only text-based social media I use, other than PieFed (which is practically the same, and fully compatible). If there was a PieFed client with a nice UI, I'd switch fully in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the only client seems to be Interstellar, which is functional but lacking (and ugly).
I do still use Instagram, but more so as a photo backup solution than active social media. PixFed or whatever it was called didn't work for me since nobody can guarantee that the server I chose will actively be maintained long term.
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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?
Used to browse Reddit daily but not anymore. Still use it if I need help troubleshooting something or for some specific piece of information I am looking for.
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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 bailed on Reddit and uninstalled after they made āLuigiā into hate speech or inciting violence. First off Luigi Mangione is a fucking Saint. Second, fuck Reddit. Lemmy all the 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?
I do Lemmy and blue sky. I have mastodon but don't go there much anymore.
I watch videos on YouTube if that counts as social media.
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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 Reddit to investigate niche topics. Sometimes I want people's say instead of these blogs showing top 10 house renting service.
The pure scale of Reddit users makes it more attractive in this regards right 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?
For most of my scrolling and feed I use lemmy. I have discord for friends and workmates. Reddit I never comment, scroll, or even login to, but some extremely specific searches will still have some usable info on Reddit, especially for work (IT, mostly non Linux environments) or for very niche subjects.
I don't use other forms of social media, unless you count random youtube videos. Though I don't go through that using the algorithm much either, unless it recommends videos from the same 8 or so creators I'll let it, or it's short animal videos.
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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?
Personally I use reddit a lot more than lemmy. My interests aren't well represented here on lemmy. Still come here sometimes 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?
Haven't looked at reddit since the first exodus. Feels good.
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What did you do?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Was pro Palestine and critical of Israel, so they tried saying I was "promoting hate".
I was also telling people that we are going to have to start going outside the bounds of what is allowed by the current authority structures if we are going to have a chance at fighting for change; reminding people that the original labor movement worked because people stopped giving a shit about what the rule of law said was the "appropriate way to challenge the system" and instead occupied factories and local government offices for days on end to prevent them from doing anything other than listening to demands, the teamsters continued to make deliveries yet stopped accepting payment and tore up waybills to fuck the company over without allowing them to restrict access to goods, yadda yadda, etc...
So yea... Towards the end I was kinda giving up on subtlety and skirting the rules. Got my three strikes and was booted.
