How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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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
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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 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.
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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?
Im "hardcore" as you describe it, dont care about instagram facebook twatter and all that shit. Lemmy is the one little corner i inhabit and i am fine with that. Also i did have a reddit account and, recently decided to log in again for shits and giggles and most of the subs i frequented have been decimated, and are shells of their former selves. I think i made the right choice getting the hell out of there.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don't agree with any of those rules
The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience
I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups
When a website doesn't have a lively and persistent 'local' community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can't really be social
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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?
Social media ? Lemmy.
Looking up answers to a question ? Reddit. (Since you can't search lemmy)
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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 stopped using Reddit when I joined Lemmy, but I've still got a Facebook account because the family chat is in messenger, and I use Instagram because that's where a lot of important information about things like rallies and mutual aid are disseminated (it's a bonus that it's also where I find cool gigs too).
I've also got Tumblr and mastodon, but I don't use them much at all, I live here more than anywhere else.
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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 wouldn't consider exclusively using Lemmy for social media "hardcore". Let's be real, people don't use social media because the content is important. I use Lemmy when I need a break and such, see some memes, read an interesting article someone posted. And Reddit sometimes turns up when I search for opinions on products, solutions for maintaining my home, stuff like that. Usually just useful, old posts. I keep in contact with people I actually know through private chats, mostly Signal. What else do you need?
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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?
Want to leave Reddit, but content is SEVERLY LACKING on Lemmy, and the thing that keeps me away from Lemmy is
- The people , who thinks Linux is god and anyone says anything else is pure evil/villain and act accordingly here in comments EVERYWHWRE
- same as above
- I can't figure out what are Lemmy sub parts and how to access them, till date I have I access to part of Lemmy shown to me via BOOST app, but apart from that I don't know
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Im "hardcore" as you describe it, dont care about instagram facebook twatter and all that shit. Lemmy is the one little corner i inhabit and i am fine with that. Also i did have a reddit account and, recently decided to log in again for shits and giggles and most of the subs i frequented have been decimated, and are shells of their former selves. I think i made the right choice getting the hell out of there.
Yep Lemmy, YouTube, and discord only for me
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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?
If it's not in the fediverse, I'm not using it
Even youtube which I used to use in addition to the fediverse is now completely replaced by peertube -
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.
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?
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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.
redreader still works for free.
