How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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 mostly browse Lemmy, but I occasionally check Reddit.
I never really got into the microblogging types of platforms (Mastodon, X, Bluesky, Threads, etc) for some reason -
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 left social media earlier this year. Lemmy is my transition platform. I hope to eventually drop off the internet entirely except for job and practical related things.
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Is Nebula a worthwhile alternative to YT? Less (ideally no) low-effort content, no ads, no comments section.
Good question. I suppose I should be looking into it, but next on my list to de-google myself is getting a subscription to Kagi.
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Could you elaborate on that a bit? I guarantee you there's a group of people that think you know the age of consent in all states when you write stuff like this
So the way I read your response is:
Since the OP is concerned that making posts to large data corporations who use that data to target the OP with ads, collect as much personal data as possible to sell or monetize and train LLMs based on the OPs "community contributions", they must be a pedo.
Bold take.
You're a first year McKinsey intern I take it?
You’re a first year McKinsey intern I take it?
I'm sorry I really don't get this reference. All I'm saying is that libertarians are pedophiles, nothing new or weird.
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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 stopped using Reddit when I switched to Lemmy.
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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?
Lemmy, NPR, and AP are the only things I read now.
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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?
reddit links from searches are the only times i land there.
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I stopped using Reddit when I switched to Lemmy.
Seconded. But... Sometimes the only place I can find the answer to an obscure issue I'm having is a comment on a nine year old reddit post six responses deep.
I do find it with Kagi, but I still feel dirty every time.
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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]On the two subs I frequented:
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/r/thelastairbender is just cultish and shallow now. I abandoned it. But it's painful for me, as this is like the only sane place left the fandom has any critical mass. /c/thelastairbender is nice, but very quiet.
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/r/localllama Has... lost its intelligence? Like no one seems to experiment or talk technically anymore, good talk seems to be on github, or shattered across Discords, while the 'critical mass' is in the AI Bro black hole of Twitter and Linkedin. I read it, but never post anymore. localllama here is better, but smaller and downvoted to hell.
Also, I've been shadowbanned on like 4 accounts in 3 different IPs/machines, no explanation, no recourse. I never post anything political or even remotely provocative (unless links to Lemmy count) and only visit those two subs, so... Yeah, kinda sick of that.
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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?
That's where I'm at. Reddit was the only social media I was using, now it's just Lemmy. I don't consider it "hardcore" or some kind of bragging right, I'm just happier without it.
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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]Trump's election is what did it for me. That and Reddit's user experience had become so watered down with slop and bad content presentation in general. I've unsubscribed from Amazon, no Paypal, deleted Facebook, stopped using Gmail mostly (still working on that), deleted Instagram, stopped watching CNN, stopped allowing tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible. If your site tracks, I'm using another unless it is reasonable for the application.
Since then, on my phone, I use FOSS browser, NextDNS, Eternity for Lemmy, Pixelfed and Mastodon. For all my searching, I started using Swisscows, but now I am searching with SearxNG. Also, I am trying Proton, Tutanota, and kollabnow for email. Got Arch Linux on laptop because Microsoft tracking and snooping is so far out of control it should be illegal 50 different ways.
Fuck those techbros. This is now our civic duty.
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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. I'll need an alternative for Discord soon.
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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?
Permabanned from reddit and don't feel like going through the hassle of bypassing it. I still browse every now and then for niche content that just doesn't exist on Lemmy but otherwise I'm on here exclusively.
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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?
Fucking reactionaries almost everywhere on "mainstream" where one's words are being vetted so as not to displease the shits, which put me here now.
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Til that I'm hardcore
There are dozens of us!
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You must be really likeable. People downvoted the shit out of me on Reddit. I always hoped people didn't hate what I said enough to downvote that much in real life.
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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?
Added this to my hosts file 3 years ago when stormfront went full corporate sock puppets and censorship:
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
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Trump's election is what did it for me. That and Reddit's user experience had become so watered down with slop and bad content presentation in general. I've unsubscribed from Amazon, no Paypal, deleted Facebook, stopped using Gmail mostly (still working on that), deleted Instagram, stopped watching CNN, stopped allowing tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible. If your site tracks, I'm using another unless it is reasonable for the application.
Since then, on my phone, I use FOSS browser, NextDNS, Eternity for Lemmy, Pixelfed and Mastodon. For all my searching, I started using Swisscows, but now I am searching with SearxNG. Also, I am trying Proton, Tutanota, and kollabnow for email. Got Arch Linux on laptop because Microsoft tracking and snooping is so far out of control it should be illegal 50 different ways.
Fuck those techbros. This is now our civic duty.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I am with you in that, and you are not alone!
And this is the best feeling to know that we still have our free internet regardless of those capitalistic fucks who forgot their roots.
(And for what even? Greed and money? lol, so much sacrifice for such outdated desires).
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Lemmy is the only one I check daily. I don't bother with reddit unless I'm using a search engine and can't find the answer I'm looking for. Even then, reddit's not all that great anymore since a huge chunk of the user base deleted all their shit and left.
Yea, it's getting worse everyday.
Feels like reddit is Altmans bitch, since they made the ai deal
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Permabanned from reddit and don't feel like going through the hassle of bypassing it. I still browse every now and then for niche content that just doesn't exist on Lemmy but otherwise I'm on here exclusively.
What did you do?
