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 use Lemmy primarily. I try not to use Reddit, Meta, TikTok or anything else as much as I can if there is a Fediverse option.
Unfortunately, there are a few things you have to use that stuff for:
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Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.
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Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.
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Reddit for specific niche forums. If the community is active on Lemmy, I post questions here first but in some case I need an answer for something that doesn’t exist in the Fediverse yet.
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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 still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.
I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it's pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.
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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?
There is plenty to engage with here. I don't miss Reddit, other than a couple of local groups that have no fedi equivalents, yet. But not enough to go back.
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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 use Lemmy and Discord
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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 for browsing but I still search “(product name) Reddit” for reviews of appliances in addition to free consumer reports access through my library. It still seems like the best way to get real user feedback despite reddits best efforts to sell out.
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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'm trying to leave #Meta apps for the #Fediverse. However, It is not easy because Most of my contacts are there and there is not so much local discussion 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, no Reddit anymore
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permabanned at first, shadowbanned later, which is basically total ban, any new acc is usually shadowbanned. while permaban usually restricts to that one account: assuming you dont make the same mistakes again witha new account. and they keep coming up with new ways to detect ban evaders.
Yeah any new account I create is banned rather quickly. Tried a bunch of tricks but they always figure it out.
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nly go to reddit when it comes up on a google search, all my posts and comments are replaced and deleted
if your posts get deleted, you may have a shadowbanned account.
I did it myself with redact
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Yeah any new account I create is banned rather quickly. Tried a bunch of tricks but they always figure it out.
if your using the same IP, same device(computer/mac or phone) and browser fingerprinting they easily ban you. only way is if all those things are different.
if one is a serial ban evader for income purposes, they are shelling out some money to use more aggresive methods to evade, it isnt worth it for normal users, but people earn money from have hundreds of accounts its worth the investment.
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I'm trying to leave #Meta apps for the #Fediverse. However, It is not easy because Most of my contacts are there and there is not so much local discussion here
wrote last edited by [email protected]Meta, ZUCKERBORG honestly is too datamine invasive to even make an account. i just bypass thier login popup up to look at certain posts with ublock origin. i think you could do it to linkedin too. the reason job sites like glassdoor and linkenin datamine is to give , besides selling it, giving your info to these companies in case your review "badmouths" them and they try to sue you.
glassdoor became corporate shills after they sued users. at the same time forums for these jobs have been shutdown.
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There is plenty to engage with here. I don't miss Reddit, other than a couple of local groups that have no fedi equivalents, yet. But not enough to go back.
wrote last edited by [email protected]no equivalent, thats the only reason. althought im shadowbanned i can only read-only anyways, i suspect that is reddit/spez current intended purpose for users. keep just enough engagement, via propaganda bots and users to keep up a front while exposing everyone else to advertisements. i always criticized how they do very little against controversial bots, and we know why.
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I still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.
I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it's pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.
FB, impossible to make an account without giving too much of your personal info away.
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Just lemmy for some years now. I do miss the Reddit of the olden days though. You know, when there was still some Aaron Schwartz in it.
Back in the day I could go online and ask every goddamn question and a real person would give me an answer. There was this treasure trove of knowledge and opinions. Lemmy is sadly not quite there yet, but the memes are spicy and I like those nice socks you computer people wear.
I dream of the day, when somebody shuts down the internet. Because I know, all you sock wearing and Linux wielding Weirdos will get your shit running again the fastest.
reddit only started clamping down politically, because of trumps 1st term, hence made it harder to say certain things, because bots are astroturfing everything.
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I still browse reddit but I was banned a long while ago. Guess I thumbed up too many Luigi posts lol
I go here to post (just wish I could find similar threads/subreddit or whatever. I miss posting on niche subjects)
they also block FB, and facebook as a word now.
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I switched to lemmy about two years ago and went almost cold turkey. There was one community on reddit that I returned to a couple of times in the first few weeks, but even that stopped as it just wasn’t worth it. I have been to reddit a few times since, but only when trying to solve a problem and reddit comes up as a search result, and only after trying other sources first.
wrote last edited by [email protected]i got permaban 99% of my accounts initially early this year, tried to play it safe with a single old account by only visiting niche communities, but shadowban eventually caught up with my account. i suspect it was triggered when i tried to switch toa firefox fork+ a mod removed one of my comments in a niche sub.
1st thing it did is force you to change password then the ban was immediate. i suspect they were using the "change password" trick to ban people.
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Yes, hi. I have fully abandoned antisocial media.
Stuff is not important anyway, no matter where it is posted. I get input here, which is okay. But the most important part is: I dont get centrally controlled propaganda and am able to form my own input as I can handle it.
it was glaringly obvious reddit was allow propaganda bots to fester on reddit for quite some time, even palintir is making headways in the site.
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It's a very quick way to end up in an echo chamber, Lemmy is a very niche platform. I try to keep up with Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon. Not a huge amount better, but it's a bit more variety than one tiny service.
you used to stay long enough to be able to be in one, but reddit now just bans people so quickly you dont have time to create history on the site, its all done by Ai.
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Well i do use youtube but other than that i basically only use non-mainstream social media. I also use snapchat but only for messaging.
wrote last edited by [email protected]youtube is fine as long as try not to comment on certain videos, and have adblock on. because you would get astroturfed by "fans of that channel, or right wingers", also not logging in helps, stop google from collecting data on your activities. i commented on isaip and nutrek videos and you were met with stupid commentors that think the current path of these shows is a good thing.
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youtube is fine as long as try not to comment on certain videos, and have adblock on. because you would get astroturfed by "fans of that channel, or right wingers", also not logging in helps, stop google from collecting data on your activities. i commented on isaip and nutrek videos and you were met with stupid commentors that think the current path of these shows is a good thing.
Yeah i dont log in, have adblock, etc. Youtube is actually usable this way. No shorts either.
