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

[real_squids@sopuli.xyz]

I still have Stealth, though browsers are probably better since you get more control and therefore privacy

[moonweedbaddegrasse@lemmy.world]

Reddit banned me, bizarrely, so I now only use Lemmy and Bluesky.

[agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[tyler@programming.dev]

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.

[ougie@lemmy.world]

I've not gone back to reddit since the big exodus a couple of years ago, was it? Aside from checking specific threads about pc issues I run into etc... Well actually I never had an account on reddit tbh, I was just browsing so I don't know if it counts.

[audaxdreik@pawb.social]

Oh shoot! I missed posting to this topic on my cakeday by 20 minutes, but me!

Came over after they killed third party apps because I couldn't use my beloved Sync, which is now never updated anyways.

I'm not ashamed to admit I moved to Reddit during the great Digg migration. Platforms come and go, you just keep on rolling.

In all seriousness, I do feel like content has got better here in that time and I enjoy the raw, early Internet vibes. There's still plenty of room to grow, but I feel very positive about it all.

[thefriendlydickhead@feddit.org]

I mostly just use Lemmy. On rare occasions I check Instagram, but only if friends of mine post something (got notifications turned on for everybody I care about)

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

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.

[justsomeguy@lemmy.world]

If you look a bit closer you'll see so much AI slop on reddit these days that it's hard to use. It boggles my noggle that the most obvious AI generated engagement bait gets posted on places like AITA including the classic Chad Jippity dashes and people engage with it.

Chatgpt, pretend you're an abused woman. Your husband has cut you open and is currently wearing your intestines as a necklace but you're not sure if you're overreacting so you ask online. Put all the reddit karma in a bag once you're done.

Fuck that shit.

[cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de]

I blocked links to reddit in my settings to filter out the many bot-crosspost. Works well, I haven't seen reddit in months.

[otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz]

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.

[d00ery@lemmy.world]

I browse bluesky, news.ycombinator.com, or try and read a book

[lazynooblet@lazysoci.al]

Hmm. For me social media is where end users create the media. So Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube all fit this.

[pineapplelover@lemm.ee]

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

[swingingthelamp@midwest.social]

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.

[sanderium@lemmy.zip]

Deleted:

• facebook
• twitter
• reddit
• soundcloud
• spotify
• instagram
• snapchat

I've been changing to free alternatives and switching to Linux just turbocharged the process.

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

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.

[thefermentalist@lemm.ee]

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

[hanrahan@slrpnk.net]

Only Lemmy and Mastodon and that's too much !

Though i have test accounts with with GotoSocial and Piefed.

[zenith@lemm.ee]

I’m banned from Reddit so I’m here and this is my only social media left