How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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youtube is fine as long as try not to comment on certain videos, and have adblock on. because you would get astroturfed by "fans of that channel, or right wingers", also not logging in helps, stop google from collecting data on your activities. i commented on isaip and nutrek videos and you were met with stupid commentors that think the current path of these shows is a good thing.
Yeah i dont log in, have adblock, etc. Youtube is actually usable this way. No shorts either.
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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..
wrote last edited by [email protected]i think the increased activitiy is from the massive purges by reddit recently. starting from nov 5 they were purging like 1-2 times by the end of the year, by february they were on thier 4th large purge. and most came here. and then they started banning people based on words, or simple activities. my first stop after getting banned, was actually in another forum and they reported large purges and thier hundreds+ accts all were hit
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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.
FB is ostly AI, and right wing content. i never thought of using that site due to that. and some younger people that use that site still before tiktok, were low-key stalking people
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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.
i never bothered with anything , except for redit and youtube, and now lemmy, and will be on piefed eventually.
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I only use reddit anymore for the meta. It's like a zoo. Its users are scarcely self-aware. I know this is conceited but whatever.
I think lemmy being a reddit clone is rather ill-fated but at least for now people generally still post like real human beings. There's something strange about how dialog is basically an algorithm. Reddit is reached some sort of maximum where nothing you can possibly say will deviate the flow of comment sections from the pre-defined talking points. It's like they're all stuck in neurotic thought cycles.
There's a video with Trevor Noah and John Stewart where they talk about how social media is a performance. It's not a "town square" or whatever. It's not really honest in good faith dialog.
you can thank the massive amount of propaganda botting that goes on.
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I maintain a reddit account linked to a burner email so that I can occasionally ask questions that I can't find the answer too elsewhere. Other than that the only social media I use is Lemmy.
wrote last edited by [email protected]they found all my accts and banned while not even violating any ban evaders, they decided that AI was good enough to MODERATE. usually people were able to use a different accounts and avoid posting on a sub that was hit with subreddit ban, now they look at all your accts for that. also once you get temp ban, all your accounts on the same IP are most likely flagged if they arnt banned immediately.
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It is not hardcore i'd actually advise anyone to limit its media following for its own mental health.
I never feel better than on vacation during which I barely check news and internetwhen i was on reddit, was addicted to it. i do stay on it occasionally to look up some posts, but since i cant engage because of bans i move on quickly. right now im looking at old posts jury duty, because i got one coming up. no community here yet.
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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?
when some instances becomes to extreme, like politically, ie tankie instances or show too much censorship. plus lemmy.ee is shutting down soon too. you want to switch to a different instance.
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Lemmy only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.
wrote last edited by [email protected]reddit is like Yahoo answers/+ qoura+ answers.com. but only the other 2 reddit gatekeeps and bans more readily than the first 2. YA was a favorite because you can ask anything, it was also comic relief because there were stupid questions.
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I'm trying to leave #Meta apps for the #Fediverse. However, It is not easy because Most of my contacts are there and there is not so much local discussion here
Same problem.
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It’s weird even a few months backI would see vastly more overt racism here than on reddit. I looked at a few subs in reddit’s all recently and the overt racism got intense fast.
which communities and instances? the only ones i see are the political ones that are causing this issue, this includes the tankie ones. i blocked those. Reddit bans people more readily thats why you dont see it as much, but reddit still has much more propaganda-racist posts than here.
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yep. i just need to know what's going on but i don't need to 'hang out'. lemmy doesn't have enough news to see the big picture.
yup , also communities on reddit are not on here and niches that are exclusive to certain genre.
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My 10+ year old account with high karma was perma banned overnight I got into an argument with a power tripping rad left mod. I'm left leaning politically, however if you arent rad left on Reddit then youre a fascist. They love that echo chamber. Honestly one of the best thibgs to ever happen to me. Reddit is bad for your mental health. And their power tripping mods are pretty much nazis
ive seen alot more right wingers than "left" almost anything left is astroturfed on reddit, which subs are seeing it in?.
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Have been here well over a year now and can confidently say the majority of lemmy users are left, not rad left. Wanting basic human rights for all isn't a radical idea, thinking gay people should have the right to get married isn't a radical idea, wanting teans folks to have their medical needs met isn't a radical idea
I'm not in for any awakening. I've done been awake, are you?
the radical/tankies probably got banned on reddit for a good reason spamming and non-sensical posting, attacking other people, much like conservatives are doing on reddit.
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it was glaringly obvious reddit was allow propaganda bots to fester on reddit for quite some time, even palintir is making headways in the site.
That is correct but also only half of the story.
Reddit shut down dissenting voices which is huge in thought control. They shut down alternate apps, making poor people gobble up propaganda. The awards system, popularity contests, etc
Thats not all of it but definitely enough to not touch it with a ten foot pole.
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Lemmy has like 0 discussion about anything not technical or not related to American politics so have to peruse reddit now and then
How do you think this might change? It’s something I think to.
I don’t want the us politics either tho
I also dont want to see it morph into Reddit though. I can see people posing Reddit style questions to try and boost engagement with others.
I don’t mind the posts of news/interes articles however they are often links that are either add or I have 50 cookies to block, so I dont bother. There is not usually much in terms of replies on these post types.That really speaks more about the state of the internet rather than a lemme thing.
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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 am trying, lemmee feels like home. I know why I hate my former spaces.
I am trying to figure my happy space here. I don’t want it to be like the other places I left, however I miss some of there qualities, odd visits to insta. I really miss a good visual feed.I also miss marketplace too. I like to recycle and it was good for that.
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which communities and instances? the only ones i see are the political ones that are causing this issue, this includes the tankie ones. i blocked those. Reddit bans people more readily thats why you dont see it as much, but reddit still has much more propaganda-racist posts than here.
Largely the political subs and Im not certain that reddit has proportionately less propaganda.
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FB is ostly AI, and right wing content. i never thought of using that site due to that. and some younger people that use that site still before tiktok, were low-key stalking people
FB is ostly AI, and right wing content.
Sure but it wasn't always; it's been nearly a decade (if not that) since I've stopped using it. A lot has changed.
