How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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.
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.
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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?
Yes I uninstalled everything except Lemmy and it feels like 2007 again
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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 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.
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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'm banned from Reddit and since the appeal process is bullshit, I didn't bother to appeal.
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I haven't browsed Reddit since the creation of my Lemmy account (~2years ago); though I've wound up viewing a Reddit thread or two via a google search on rare occasion. Beyond those two, the only other 'social media' I've used in at least a decade is Youtube.
Likewise, switched to Lemmy, never looked back.
I only use reddit now when it shows up in search engine results.
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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.
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. -
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 haven't looked back to reddit since I created my account. It's better here
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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'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.
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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 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?!”
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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!
I've tried multiple times. Reddit bans the account immediately after the first time I comment.
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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 a reddit account and only comment on lemmy. Although I do check the reddit frontpage every so often the actual communities I interact with are here.
Other than that, I have a mastodon account which I'm quite active on and a letterboxd too. Last thing would be linkedin but I don't post there and maybe login to it once a quarter.
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For daily browsing, pure Lemmy.
Researching a problem or future purchase, I'm still putting site:reddit.com in the search bar. I love you Lemmy, but you're just not there yet.
Ask on lemmy as well, so next time someone else might not need to go there for the same answer
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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 both several times a day. Reddit has more content. But the fediverse (and decentralization of communication) is important to me so I created my own instance. I'm hoping more people follow.
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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, but barely. Mostly for irish subreddits, the severance subreddit and r/guineapigs. And shilling lemmy of course ; )
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I don't have a reddit account and only comment on lemmy. Although I do check the reddit frontpage every so often the actual communities I interact with are here.
Other than that, I have a mastodon account which I'm quite active on and a letterboxd too. Last thing would be linkedin but I don't post there and maybe login to it once a quarter.
What's the last movie you logged on letterboxd?
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Ask on lemmy as well, so next time someone else might not need to go there for the same answer
Yeah honestly, when you have a question like that, if there's an appropriate Lemmy community for it share what you learned from your research on Reddit and ask is anyone else has input. Reddit may own the content but they certainly didn't make it, or provide compensation to the person/people who did.
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What's the last movie you logged on letterboxd?
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How has Lemmy been for you? How do you resist the call of Reddit on a Dark and stormy night?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Get permabanned for saying nazis should die lol
Honestly I am still struggling to avoid it, I browse a lot still, but they are no longer getting my content for free because I literally cannot.
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I don't use reddit aside from reading search results. I never post and never explicitly seek it out.
I deleted Twitter years ago. I never used Facebook or Instagram or tiktok. That shit's bad for you.
It's annoying that some places will make announcements only on shitty platforms. None of my friends are this "hardcore" , so sometimes I find out about stuff like a concert or protest or whatever because one of them sees it on Instagram
I don't disagree, but what are the other/additional ways these announcements should be made that are effective? Besides word of mouth.
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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?
Me.
Hate Reddit. Always did. Lemmy's better.
