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

[clearwater@lemmy.world]

Lemmy only. No other social media, be it Twitter, Instagram, or any federated/FOSS alternative.

I still read some Reddit, but only signed out and I certainly don't post.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

Stop doing free work for capitalists, that's not even a Reddit thing that's just common sense. At least make them pay you.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

The Fediverse is definitely not great privacy wise but it's certainly not bad compared to a Facebook profile.

[jjmoldy@lemmy.world]

Artwork, hobbies, videos, cooking, health. Some of these are present in some form on here but not to significant volume or to my particular tastes. And many more things that have no presence on Lemmy at all.

[percent@infosec.pub]

Doesn't that apply to pretty much all platforms though?

[raptore39@lemmy.ca]

Lemmy all the time. I sometimes read Threads, though only when they recommended a story via Instagram, where my meme friends are

[nightsoul@lemmy.world]

I exclusively use Lemmy on my phone, only time I use reddit if I'm searching something and it pops up in the results because it usually has the answer or gets me closer to it

[lennnny@lemmy.world]

Yeah. And I spent a while posting prolifically to them, but without comments, and without new posts, it's kinda pointless. I want to see OTHER people's content.

[pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip]

I quit the others when Facebook started to hold my friend's messages hostage their invasive mobile app. I figured they only wanted the app installed so they could spy on me. I was right.

[sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works]

Besides two niche subreddits, I stopped using reddit. So it's 90% Lemmy. I don't use much else for social media except Something Awful and a heavily manually censored Discover tab on Bluesky because I'm sick of seeing Amercians crying and their politics. I wish we could region block entire countries on our personal social media accounts.

Anyways, the focus is reddit. I don't really miss it because I could see the rot with bots, alts, power mods, site leadership, vote manipulation, etc etc.

[regrettable_incident@lemmy.world]

I don't think it's particularly hardcore myself, I've just been moving away from platforms as they've been enshittifying. I was on reddit over ten years but left over the API thing and haven't been back. I stopped using Facebook a few years ago and haven't missed it at all. I stopped using twitter when musk bought it, tried using mastodon for a bit but it was kinda barren so I'm on bluesky now. I still check in on mastodon occasionally. I'll move on from these platforms too if they turn to shit. It's easy to get caught in a kinda sunk cost thing with platforms, but really it doesn't matter how long you've been there, how many Facebook friends you have, how much karma, whatever - if it turns to shit it's time to move on, and best go early to avoid the rush!

[spicehoarder@lemm.ee]

Thanks, see you on zip I guess

[regrettable_incident@lemmy.world]

Yeah Lemmy has porn but if you want anything at all niche Reddit was better. My tastes are pretty vanilla so it's not been a problem.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Not quite 100% yet - I still check in with R every week or two vs looking in on Lemmy daily.

[grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world]

Thanks for the reminder to go delete my old comments and posts. Reddit is dead to me. I stopped using it two years ago. I'll occasionally go there if there's a legit looking search result for what I'm looking for, but I don't bother logging in or interacting with the platform. Reddit is blocked by my work, which is typically what I'm searching for from there so it's useless anyways.

[mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yeah, I ask because I'd really like to start moderating or contributing to some type of community that is very popular outside of Lemmy but not currently on Lemmy much. Art seems like a good one. Cooking too potentially. I wonder what would bring the most new visitors to Lemmy?

[gladiusb@lemmy.world]

Reddit sucks. I'm here only.

[ledericas@lemm.ee]

most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently. im here instead, because reddit would just ban any new accounts after you been shadowbanned, if your not using ban evasion methods which cost some money: like new IP, mobile phone, browser,,,,etc.

ALso the significant amount of astroturfing and gatekeeping of political and news discussion on reddit is enough to trigger arguments on both sides getting you banned. plus reddit also using AI moderation to ban people indiscriminately. plus the amount of bots are staggering. its too easy to get banned on reddit, if you try to engage in any of the most controversial subs.

most cities,counties, country subreddits have been taken over by consevatives, and goody two shoes people, so its hard to engage in your regions sub most of teh time.

[ledericas@lemm.ee]

i would revisit the niche subs i no longer can engage in, because the bigger subs/ and reddit has started banning people en masse.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

I use Lemmy 99.999% of the time. I asked a plumbing question on Reddit, some radio questions a few months back, and that's really all I can remember. I don't browse it. I don't avoid it if search results go there though. But I don't seek it out often at all.