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

[emb@lemmy.world]

I've replaced all my aimless Reddit scrolling with Lemmy. I'm not so purist I refuse to go there though - there's still a lot of good info organized there, and it's still decent for searches.

I've replaced Twitter too. Ironically Facebook is the one that sticks around, despite being probably the most user-hostile. That one's built around people I know IRL and it's not so easy to drop in a replacement. Even though it's not very good for that or any purpose.

[jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Not using mainstream social media isn't "hard core" - it is being sensible and actually giving a shit.

[swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Never heard of it

[nthavoc@lemmy.today]

I only use Lemmy and deleted my reddit account. I didn't bother with Mastadon or BlueSky. Then again I didn't bother with Facebook or Twatter either. If it's important it does bubble up to Lemmy with less bots and brigading going on so that's a plus. I do have a few YouTube channels I watch that are either about fixing stuff or oddball humor. From my own personal observation, there is a noticable difference between social media addict behavior and people who don't make it their entire existence.

[insomniacks@lemmy.world]

Me, too. Got Sync as soon as it was available and haven't looked back.

[jakule17@lemmy.world]

Created this account two years ago in the big fuck u/spez boom, forgot about it for two years, and started transition to fedi a few months ago, don’t use Reddit, sometimes peek onto twitter (via nitter) to piss myself off

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

Probably about 99% Lemmy but occasionally there just isn’t a community in the Fediverse or doesn’t have the traffic that Reddit does. But I avoid Reddit as much as possible. Its devolved into an AI driven echo chamber.

[cpmsp@midwest.social]

I logged in a few times after creating my account here, but now I don't even bother.

It was fun, it got worse, and now it's full on garbage.

[pulsewidth@lemmy.world]

Same on all fronts. Not commenting on YouTube has been a good thing I'd say 90% of the time, it's a terrible place to try to have a discussion with their comment format.

Using Reddit even for occasional information is becoming a pain in the arse now with a lot of stuff locked behind login or behind other hurdles like CAPTCHA / AI challenges. They don't like us 'dine and dash' visitors it seems.

[aeri@lemmy.world]

I got banned from reddit for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and my appeal was declined in minutes. This has led me to the conclusion that Reddit is pro nazi and ban evasion is a lot of work.

I do still peep at it because ngl Lemmy doesn't have that endless stream of content going.

[dontnoodles@discuss.tchncs.de]

I stopped commenting on YouTube videos when they stopped showing me a list of connects i made in the past.

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

It made me realize how addicted to reddit I was for sure

[dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works]

Lemmy only here

[dioramaofshit@lemmy.world]

They called it "advocating violence"

[strider@lemmy.world]

Dito, this is the way.

[daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Post on reddit, never. Still updates faster than lemmy, tho.

[widdershins@lemmy.world]

I'm fingerprint banned from reddit now. I worked tooth and nail making thousands of frivolous reports via browser after the API thing. If I'm not mistaken mods used 3rd party apps to help with moderation. I figured I'd make being king of shit mountain a little more of a headache since those tools were out too.

I'll peek in on reddit every once in a while. I clearly don't have an account there so the front page garbage is what shows up. It feels like the internet version of walking down a coast with a beached whale carcass rotting on it. Once majestic, the bloated carrion now serves as a feeding ground for vultures and bottom feeders. The smell is awful. The beach volleyball area is clearly full of bots who have no sense of smell. The beachgoers there for a day at the beach either don't realize or don't care that their beach is littered with poop all over in the sand.

[whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world]

I left Twitter around 2008 (or whenever they stopped allowing posts through SMS), left Facebook proper a few years later (with the exception of chat, as it's the only way I talk with certain people.) I left Reddit during the API debacle. I used to post my art on Instagram, but ever since the turn toward "influencers" took over, I've stopped posting there, too. I never got into TikTok or whatever else might be out there today.

I made a Bluesky account just before it took off in popularity last year, but I don't use it except to look for pictures after protests. I made a Mastodon account, but have yet to post at all.

So yeah, Lemmy's the one and only social media I post/comment to right now. Social media is exhausting, but Lemmy doesn't blast ads at me, doesn't bug me when I don't post after a while, and its semi-anonymous nature means it's easier to let things go when people disagree. Everything else is too stressful to deal with, especially after a long work day when all I really want to do is catch up with the news.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

I'm that hardcore. Partly because I'm also a habitual Tor user, and post-IPO Reddit seems to dislike that.

Edit: Although I still will incidentally browse old Reddit as a guest sometimes, because not everything exists on Lemmy yet. I dread the day they pull the plug on the old frontend.

[abettertomorrow@lemm.ee]

10+ years of Reddit and switched here a year ago. Lemmy only.