How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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I think my Reddit account still exists, but I haven't logged in since 3rd party apps stopped working. It took me a bit to find Lemmy, and I'm still not on it was frequently as I was on Reddit.
I deleted my Twitter account when they announced they would be training grok on my tweets. I hadn't logged into it since Elmu mass-banned a bunch of journalists for retweeting the "Elon's Jet" account. I decided Mastodon was more likely to not get between me and the journalists I wanted to see microblogs from.
I'm not hardcore. I an still well-entrenched in the Google ecosystem (primarily YT). I still have a Facebook account, and occasionally login to un-tag myself. I use Amazon Pay / Paypal whenever I can, tho I at least stopped paying for Prime when they decided to start putting ads in Prime Video stuff.
wrote last edited by [email protected]did you know reddit started shadowbanning new accounts, and old inactive accounts that suddenly started posting. it was a recent thing, it wouldve happened to people who dint use thier old inactive accounts eventually. also reddit have been extremely oppressive with thier filters, and sub filters too.
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I am ip banned from reddit for making 'threats' only check reddit as a news aggregate because it's a little quicker
shadowban is pratically an ip ban. only way around it is if your device and ip is new.
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I'm on Lemmy because Reddit devs are letting their AI auto-ban their more intelligent users. Isn't that similar to letting Telsa's auto-drive into an auto-accident?
wrote last edited by [email protected]its mostly propaganda bots from russia, iran, and israeli right now. and now we have PALINTIR bots there too. i wouldnt be suprise musk has his bots on there shilling for tesla. 50% are probably the above bots.
the of users, the link farmers, are the lowest hanging fruits they go after. i heard they ignored the palintir bots.
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Only lemmy, I'm too spicy for corporate social media. Now if I said insane racist shit in support of trump, I'd be fine. But that's not me. I'm pointedly in favor of personal freedoms. Which is NOT in line with the end user agreements.
depends on which subs, maybe on one of the conservative subs, but those are controlled by russia funny enough.
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Yea, it's getting worse everyday.
Feels like reddit is Altmans bitch, since they made the ai deal
they are altmans and googles bitch. since reddit is also on googles top search results, plus they also uses google v3 captcha for free, which is thier sneaky way of moderation and bannings too.
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Yeah I'm trying to stick to Lemmy, but all the communities I joined when I signed up turned out to be dead.
im guessing most of them left or moved back to reddit for the same reason. more and more people wouldve have to get banned on reddit for them to come here, its just too addicting.
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haven't used reddit once since Spez's mod-melting-bullshit. don't anticipate ever going back. bluesky + lemmy is more than enough distraction for me.
Mostly the same, but when I need to search for something and reddit is in the top search results, I do look at 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?
About the "hardcore" and msm, I do check msm, and try to use multiple sources and more balanced media sources. News on lemmy definitely isn't neutral.
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What interests in particular do you think aren't well represented?
an online card game, niche sub like a more extensive whatisthisthing, medical conditions(experiences not asking for diagnosis, but it almost always ends up is it this?), Specific youtube channels not the big youtubers but niche ones you probably never heard of it.
location based communities, that hasnt been taken over by holier than thou people.
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I switched to Lemmy after Reddit killed bacon reader. Never looked back. joined world and discovered defederation drama. Joined lemm.ee. now I'm on .zip. I don't want my instance dictating what I see. Even if it is the trifecta.
I use Mastodon also. I occasionally watch YouTube, but I don't post, and I definitely don't engage in the comments section.
Have not used Facebook in a decade. Not interested in tiktok or shorts. Occasionally pushed to imgur for the memes.
i made one on .today i posted a couple times, but i will be moving over after ee shutsdown, and possibly make a new instance account like piefed.
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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've only ever marginaly used reddit, ages ago.
What's so hardcore about preferring social media over algorithms? -
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.
now they want ID and facial recognition scans, too invasive. plus they autoban people using temp emails.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]thier lack of moderation against the actual troublesome bots, ie russia, iran israel, palintir, instead they are going after people like us and the OF people, and the people spamming thier links for thier businesses. they may occasionally take out some prop bots as to pretend like they are actually doing something.
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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 only.
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most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently.
Doubt. A lot of us are here because of the API changes in July of 2023.
true, also the recent sudden increase was from the purges.
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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 go to reddit when it comes up on a google search, all my posts and comments are replaced and deleted
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Was pro Palestine and critical of Israel, so they tried saying I was "promoting hate".
I was also telling people that we are going to have to start going outside the bounds of what is allowed by the current authority structures if we are going to have a chance at fighting for change; reminding people that the original labor movement worked because people stopped giving a shit about what the rule of law said was the "appropriate way to challenge the system" and instead occupied factories and local government offices for days on end to prevent them from doing anything other than listening to demands, the teamsters continued to make deliveries yet stopped accepting payment and tore up waybills to fuck the company over without allowing them to restrict access to goods, yadda yadda, etc...
So yea... Towards the end I was kinda giving up on subtlety and skirting the rules. Got my three strikes and was booted.
Haha, I pretty much did the same but only got a ban for 7 days xD
I'm also banned on many subs because I said a Tesla looks best when there is flames inside, which they say is promoting violence...
It's a freaking car...
Reddit really is fucked
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Lemmy only.
Same 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?
Lemmy only. I quit Reddit when the third party apps fell.
I do miss some of the niche hobby subreddits, but fuck Spez. If I need to find some info, I can access it via search engines.
Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with Lemmy, people are generally much nicer and there's more than enough content. Reddit was so overbloated that this smaller universe is quite enough for me.
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Lemmy only. I quit Reddit when the third party apps fell.
I do miss some of the niche hobby subreddits, but fuck Spez. If I need to find some info, I can access it via search engines.
Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with Lemmy, people are generally much nicer and there's more than enough content. Reddit was so overbloated that this smaller universe is quite enough for me.
Tbh I still use reddit like a little whore because there's a number of workarounds if you're willing to make your own dev key or whatever.
