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

[knexcar@lemmy.world]

Because there are other things to talk about, and it’s depressing and not something the average citizen can really control on their own.

I really don’t care about whatever new crime against humanity they’re doing next, I just want to see Cities: Skylines content, or at least some mildly interesting discussions.

[hihi24522@lemm.ee]

The only social media I really use is Lemmy. I have instagram strictly because that’s where my sibling’s meme group chat is and they don’t want to move. I don’t use it for anything else.

[blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works]

Occasionally I'll hit up a reddit result if I'm doing a search looking for an answer to a specific question. But I never browse it since the 3rd party apps stopped working.

[raffster@lemmy.world]

Tildes. Now that i haven't heard in some time. That's still around then?

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

lol what a cute thing to say in 2025

[atlien51@lemm.ee]

LEMMY needs to market itself :DD

[chunkyrice@lemmy.world]

Yes, only the third party apps that you know of so far.

[magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm only on Lemmy and deleted my reddit accounts

[tilgare@lemmy.world]

Same same. I moved to Firefox for Android back then and use ublock to hide their nags forcing you to use their app. And of course the ads they were trying to shove down our throats by killing third party apps. It's still a great repository of knowledge that I'll search via Google, but otherwise I browse for fun here.

[tomenzgg@midwest.social]

I realized sometime in the last year that Lemmy provided me all the usual community groups I needed and actually content I wanted to read (I never really used Reddit to just browse, outside of the sub.s I'd joined).

And I've been using Mastodon since, like 2020 or something (never was a fan of Twitter, though).

Also stopped using Facebook though that's probably more due to burnout and falling out of touch with a lot of the people in my life. Facebook really did make navigating socializing and keeping in touch both easier and less energy intensive and it is, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage that people seem to emotionally brand such a large classification as. Shame about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also always going to end up as shit – in the end –, so long as owned by a corporation); since I'd already dropped in using it, I just opted to stay stopped.

Still use YouTube as there isn't a real viable alternative yet; itching for the day they're is.

And still use Tumblr, as most of those I socialize with are on there; though it has built up plenty of its own enshittification over the last few years. If I ever finish my Fediverse clone of it, that's where I'll be sprinting to.

[neuromorph@lemm.ee]

only use lemmy. This is like my 6th account, and instance hop. Definitely a system that works better for me.

new to lemmy. what is the significance of instance hopping or multiple accounts on this platform?

[rodneylives@lemmy.world]

Same here. Nothing could convince me to go back to Reddit or Twitter at this point.

[tyler@programming.dev]

Social media has nothing to do with being social. People were social on websites long before “social media” existed. Calling forums “social media” is just conflating forums (which have no requirement of having any sort of algorithmic popularity or ranking) with those that do, like Facebook.

Your description of Reddit is literally a description of a forum. For the past 40 years it’s been that way.

[neuromorph@lemm.ee]

nly go to reddit when it comes up on a google search, all my posts and comments are replaced and deleted

if your posts get deleted, you may have a shadowbanned account.

[trihilis@ani.social]

Seeing how this post has 600 replies and I see a lot of activity in the past 6 months I feel Lemmy is doing pretty well as a reddit alternative.

I certainly don't miss the amount of shitposting that reddit had. Literally every first post was some dumb joke that didn't even made me chuckle..

[jiggle_physics@sh.itjust.works]

It means that I was able to dump accounts, and instances, when the people running them, or something else, made me no longer like the the place. So I was able to just pick-up and move. Which is nice.

[tyler@programming.dev]

Social media emerged as a term to describe Facebook and MySpace, places where you added connections between friends and shared moments of your life with them, not a comment section on a website. Using the term “social media” to describe something that existed before those sites existed devalues the actual worth of forums as a meeting place. There is clearly a difference between something like Twitter and Facebook who’s only purpose is to show you ads and things to get you angry using algorithms and places like Lemmy and really any sort of comment section (Reddit and 4chan included) that are simply people talking to each other.

I would expect most people here would be able to understand the difference and how referring to things that are distinctly not Facebook or Twitter as being in the same category. Reddit, Lemmy, your random double edge razor forum, etc are not social media. They’re forums. They’ve existed for thousands of years.

forum
noun
fo·​rum ˈfȯr-əm 
plural forums also fora ˈfȯr-ə 
Synonyms of forum
1
a
: the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business
b
: a public meeting place for open discussion
The club provides a forum for people interested in local history.
c
: a medium (such as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas
2
: a judicial body or assembly : COURT
3
a
: a public meeting or lecture involving audience discussion
The town has scheduled a public forum to discuss the proposal.
b
: a program (as on radio or television) involving discussion of a problem usually by several authorities

[notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world]

Pretty new user, wasn’t aware. Thanks for the info, guess Reddit will have to entertain me for free for the foreseeable future then. Can’t say I feel bad.

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

Only Lemmy.

[garretble@lemmy.world]

Right. I'm literally missing nothing of value by not going there.

People like to think they are missing something. But they aren't.

"But my [topic of interest] isn't on [some other platform]!" Then be the change. Stop lurking and make it if you want to see it. That thing started off small at Reddit and Twitter, too. They just have the momentum of being around for a decade or more.