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

[quantumtoast@lemmy.zip]

You can always just create another account by the way. It takes a moment to get back up and running because of shadow bans, but it is possible

[quantumtoast@lemmy.zip]

You can create a new Reddit account and get it up and running. Especially if enough time has passed. Create a new account, and comment SLOW, dont make posts, just comment. Once you have like 100+ Karma and an account thats a week old? You are golden!

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

If that app gives a better UI than the web view on mobile, I may switch. Thank you!

[thedeadlysquid@lemm.ee]

Left Reddit almost a year ago and haven’t looked back.

[ripcord@lemmy.world]

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.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I only participate on Lemmy. I strictly consume video content on Reddit. But I haven't participated on Reddit in around a decade.

[m0op0o@mander.xyz]

I have never posted on reddit. I guess I dodged a bullet there.

[andyburke@fedia.io]

Yo wtf?

As someone in a similar-sounding situation who usually runs the code and maintainance - w t f?

There is no way one of my buddies taking over turns anything into a nazi safe space.

tf???

[cracks_inthewalls@sh.itjust.works]

Reddit still comes up when I'm searching for info/insight on specific topics, but for scrolling and commenting it's Lemmy all day er'yday.

[jomn@jlai.lu]

I don't use any mainstream social media, but I don't see how that is hardcore? I simply socialize in real life when I need it. And I feel like people mainly really use social media to entertain themselves.

[zombifrancis@sh.itjust.works]

It's a little salty exaggeration but it was a group mainly of military people. The main guy went to work for the Pentagon years back and scrubbed his internet identity and sold/gave things to a member he trusted.

That member went nuts over covid and BLM. Started things like messaging me that because I wanted to invest in solar energy I was an enslaver of humanity working for China.

Knew the guy since we were teenagers but I just became an internet 'other' to him one day. He's the one that made it a safe space for himself to post 13/50 screeds and shit.

So in this instance, the buddy became the Nazi.

[adulated_aspersion@lemmy.world]

I agree with your sentiment, and I am in a similar boat. I dont think stepping away from Reddit / Facebook / Instagram / TikTok is hardcore.

I didn't have eleventy billion updooterinos on Reddit, but I had a fair share. When they made their stand around 2 years ago, I nuked my profile and bailed.

[rishado@lemmy.world]

Yes I uninstalled everything except Lemmy and it feels like 2007 again

[gloomy@mander.xyz]

I only use Lemmy since the reddit API Fuck up.

Sometimes, if I am looking for information, I visit reddit, but I treat it like any other random forum I look up something, take the info and fuck off again.

I use YouTube, if you wanna count that. I don't comment there and use Newpipe or PipePipe, so only consuming and no participation there too.

I haven't used any other social media, like Facebook or Instagram, so nothing hardcore for me in just continuing not to do so.

[tartarin@reddthat.com]

I'm banned from Reddit and since the appeal process is bullshit, I didn't bother to appeal.

[cocodapuf@lemmy.world]

Likewise, switched to Lemmy, never looked back.

I only use reddit now when it shows up in search engine results.

[bebopalouie@lemmy.ca]

I got rid of 95% of all social media years ago. Was only using reddit and a bit of Lemmy. Got nuked off of Reddit a couple months back and have now been on Lemmy since then.
Nothing hardcore about quitting. It will be better for your sanity.

[o_r_i_o_n@lemm.ee]

I haven't looked back to reddit since I created my account. It's better here

[arsonbutcute@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm on lemmy. I'm an artist so I also have an account on Pixelfed.art because it has a portfolio view I can show people.

Otherwise I am a non-participant in social media.

[immutable@lemmy.zip]

I left Reddit 2 or 3 years back and have only used Lemmy since.

I joined through Lemm.ee so recently had to move over to Lemmy.zip

I think this was a net positive for me overall. Lemmy has a lot less content which helped me break the “I’m slightly bored let me pull out my phone and scroll Reddit” addiction I didn’t even realize I had. Now I check Lemmy maybe once or twice a day, still see the big important events and the couple communities I care about.

I was never one for twitter, so I don’t bother with trying to find a replacement for that.

Overall the less social media I use the better I feel. I think future generations will look back on our constant use of social media and dopamine mining the same way we look back on how people used to smoke everywhere.

We know it’s bad for us, but we like the dopamine so everyone just does it everywhere, we give toddlers tablets so they can start dopamine mining as early as possible. I hope our descendants look back at this time with a sense of “holy shit they just let people smoke in the nurseries at the hospital?!”