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 blocked links to reddit in my settings to filter out the many bot-crosspost. Works well, I haven't seen reddit in months.
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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?
Only browse old.reddit when searching around for info I might not run into otherwise but haven't needed to log in there in the last 1-2 years or so. Beyond that usage it's just Lemmy for the normal browsing/posting/commenting.
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How has Lemmy been for you? How do you resist the call of Reddit on a Dark and stormy night?
I browse bluesky, news.ycombinator.com, or try and read a book
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Reddit isn’t social media, YouTube isn’t social media. People started branding anything with a comment thread as social media and it’s nonsensical. Criteria for social media: 1. Must allow following any user 2. Users must not be anonymous 3. Must be able to interact with, chat, send messages to, etc. any user. 4. All of the above must be the main point of the site.
Reddit is a forum of forums. The point is aggregated news feed for different forums. User to user social interaction is not the main point, and the user to user interaction that occurs is forum interaction, which existed decades before social media.
YouTube is a video sharing site. It has comment sections just like any news site.
If YouTube is social media then literally any news site is social media. If Reddit is social media then every forum on the planet is social media. Neither of those things make sense, therefore they’re not social media.
Sorry I just absolutely hate that everyone refers to anything with a comment section as social media now. It completely devalues the word and makes it meaningless.
Hmm. For me social media is where end users create the media. So Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube all fit this.
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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. But I still do a lot of searching online ending with "reddit" at the end. But I don't use Reddit as social media, just a place to find specific information
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Reddit isn’t social media, YouTube isn’t social media. People started branding anything with a comment thread as social media and it’s nonsensical. Criteria for social media: 1. Must allow following any user 2. Users must not be anonymous 3. Must be able to interact with, chat, send messages to, etc. any user. 4. All of the above must be the main point of the site.
Reddit is a forum of forums. The point is aggregated news feed for different forums. User to user social interaction is not the main point, and the user to user interaction that occurs is forum interaction, which existed decades before social media.
YouTube is a video sharing site. It has comment sections just like any news site.
If YouTube is social media then literally any news site is social media. If Reddit is social media then every forum on the planet is social media. Neither of those things make sense, therefore they’re not social media.
Sorry I just absolutely hate that everyone refers to anything with a comment section as social media now. It completely devalues the word and makes it meaningless.
Who set those rules? Is there standards body that promulgates them? I remember that social media emerged as a term to describe media on which the users provided the content, rather than traditional gatekeepers like newspapers and TV networks. Wikipedia agrees, using special jargon, distinguishing between monologic and dialogic media models.
Reddit is quintessential social media.
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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?
Deleted:
- soundcloud
- spotify
- snapchat
I've been changing to free alternatives and switching to Linux just turbocharged the process.
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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?
Me. Only Pixelfed, Mastodon and Lemmy for two or three years. I dont feel like I miss anything and in fact find it much healthier, especially Pixelfed. I never really used Instagram but love my Pixelfed feed of art and photography.
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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. Haven’t used reddit in a couple of years. I have a Pixelfed account that gets opened once every two weeks or so. No meta products, no xitter, this is it.
Once I closed the instagram account, I lost a few friends. A couple I had known for years IRL. The important ones I am still in touch with, mostly via text of some sort
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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?
Only Lemmy and Mastodon and that's too much !
Though i have test accounts with with GotoSocial and 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’m banned from Reddit so I’m here and this is my only social media left
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Who set those rules? Is there standards body that promulgates them? I remember that social media emerged as a term to describe media on which the users provided the content, rather than traditional gatekeepers like newspapers and TV networks. Wikipedia agrees, using special jargon, distinguishing between monologic and dialogic media models.
Reddit is quintessential social media.
Is there standards body that promulgates them?
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Lemmy is my main social media. I don't use anything else. Occasionally, I still get reddit in my search results though.
Oh, I also use Discord.
Do you use discord for weiners or gaming? Actually, it doesn't matter. Have fun.
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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 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.
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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.
This sums it up perfectly.
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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 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.
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I’m banned from Reddit so I’m here and this is my only social media left
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.
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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 been for quite a while.
After some frustrating interactions on Lemmy I've dabbled back into Reddit as well again.
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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 is my only social media
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Same, used a workaround for a while but then got tired of it and my favorite client got a lemmy version. Smaller places are more fun.
This. There is nothing like scrolling lemmy and finding that you went through the new content in 5 mins and now it’s time to go live my life
