How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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I am almost Lemmy/Piefed exclusive now. Sometimes I visit Reddit for some niche topics but I'm usually logged out and never comment there.
wrote last edited by [email protected]thats what they want now for reddit users, read only , never login. its less work on them, so they dont have to keep up with moderation. i think only the super-duper users are still left on the site, the one that has aged accounts with alot of good cqs score and karma. new accounts are pretty much doomed.
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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.
same here, niche topic can only be found on that sub and not here.
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I use Lemmy and Bluesky since I'm banned on Reddit and it's no longer worth bothering with ban evasion. I'm also testing Mastodon through Pachli because Bluesky has kinda started going on my nerves with all the luke warm "Dems need to save the US" takes. I wisth there was a federated platform for short form vertical videos like tiktok. It's probably not feasible as a non profit project but something inside of me is still chasing the high of early pandemic social media.
bluesky will resemble twitter eventually, because most of the twitter people moved to blue sky. its difficult to ban evade on reddit now than it was before the election, you would have to buy a new device and IP TO be able to log in if they hadnt banned your ip already.
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]once reddit shadowbans you , theres almost no way to use a new account, because they can just connect your new account to your old account via the IP adresss, browser fingerprints, and your device components. they looking for things like browser size, time zone/location setting and correct version of browser. beyond that they will compare similarities between posting and spamming habits.
only way is to have a new device: mobile, new ip, different browser, or using more expensive things like proxies, and anti-detect browsers.
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I'm banned too. I did try to create a new account but subreddits have invisible minimum karma thresholds that make it difficult to use as a new user.
wrote last edited by [email protected]any of the large subs will always have a stricter filter, as they have the most traffic. usually some niche subs, and maybe one that is almost never moderated or barely moderated. if they already shadowbanned you, it wouldnt matter anyways.
i know a couple of small subs that are not moderated or barely. i heard ban evaders will try to use these to warm up the account.
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Lemmy is the only social media platform where I have an account. No Facebook, no Reddit, no LinkedIn, etc. From time to time I do read a post on Reddit, when it comes up in search results. When you have an obscure gaming or Linux issue, Reddit can (unfortunately) still be a treasure trove.
Linkedin got stupid when they force logins to look at someones profiles, no thanks. it wasnt that helpful to certain fields for jobs hunting.
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I don't know how people can live without niche subs that simply don't exist on lemmy. I read them but I can't participate since reddit fingerprints me no matter what I do and instantly bans my new accounts.
same here.
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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!
it would have to be something like 1+years, also shadowbans tend to be permanent, if you had multiple accounts banned simulataneously, like most people during the purges. its harder too.
only way around this is with a different IP that isnt flagged as spam, a new device, a different browsers.
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Make sure account is not crested with a VPN active
they look at the same IP and browser fingerprinting, they can eaisly deduce it sthe same person.
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Currently waiting for it to happen to me.... Their new rules got banned twice now for three days and then seven days.
Didn't even say anything out of the ordinary. What finally got you banned?
during the height of the ban purges in early feb, i was banned for 7 days, and then it triggered full bans for my other accounts without reason.
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I reported a post for severe misandry. Respectfully, I might add. Some loser admin did not like that.
i was originally banned in a lgbtq+ for allegley promoting homophobia, when i appealed they acknowledge the misunderstanding and unbanned me on tha tsub. but the real bans came when they started purging accounts when trump was doing all tariffs early in the year.
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I don’t have any mainstream media accounts and I’m pretty happy with that choice.
Although honestly I feel like Lemmy is feeling a lot like second Reddit recently and I’m pretty sad about this. See: dozens and dozens of low effort moth memes on feed now.
writing was on the wall, when spez started to thirst for musk.
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the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)
I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.
Only things I'll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I'll gladly donate)
reddit does it so obvious now, allows right wing content to overtake any other discussion, and discussion of trump is 99% of reddit right now, and not the important things hes doing behind the scenes.
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Lemmy is also being manipulated, but here it's primarily through users. It's a problem you'll have on any social media, particularly if fully anonymous.
its easier to catch propaganda users here, since theres less people, and block them.
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Reddit stopped being mainstream for me since the API bullshit, so... hardcore I am, guess I
funny thing is reddit blocks FB, and facebook as a word now. dont want to be called facebook2.0, because thats what reddit is 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?
I don't have an account on other social media.
Once in a while I do searches like "alternative to X site:reddit.com" for software, movie recommendations, etc. So I do use it, just don't participate. Mostly because it's designed to breed hate and distrust.
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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?
Joined when Boost for reddit stopped working for me a couple of months ago. Now I check the new here and open reddit when I'm just doom scrolling.
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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 check Reddit like 5-10 minutes a week max and usually only if i land there via searches and just do a quick gloss over anything ive potentially missed. But compare that to the hours a week in habitually using lemmy (for better and/or worse i guess haha)
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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?
Ever since they killed third party apps, I stopped using it on my phone. Now whenever I have time to kill on my phone, I'm on Lemmy. My PC still has the old interface and such, so i still check it from time to time at home, but never on mobile. I'm on mobile for news far more than at my desktop.
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from what ive heard all the location based subs{cities,,,etc} have been overtaken by mostly conservatives and tankies of those areas. even my super blue area is met with " do your duty and obey,,,,etc"
I heard something similar. And that any "blue" or "neutral" comment is followed by an immediate suspension or outright ban. I haven't witnessed it myself, though, since I haven't been active on Reddit in over a year now.
