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

[gi1242@lemmy.world]

the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)

I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.

Only things I'll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I'll gladly donate)

[toneswirly@lemmy.world]

This is the only "social media" I use, alsthough its really more like a message board than modern social media.

[speculater@lemmy.world]

I honestly don't consider the sea of noise over there "social" media. So I never even think to go over to it. Like others, if an answer to a question happens to be on Reddit, I'll read that while signed out.

[klemptor@startrek.website]

I wouldn't call it hardcore necessarily. I'm on lemmy because I walked away from reddit when they shut down api access to third party apps. I haven't had any other social media since I got rid of facebook in 2013 when Edward Snowden dropped his info. I just don't want it, to be honest. Facebook was a little hard to give up because it was the only way I stayed in touch with some folks, but honestly the important relationships survived. And all the rest - instagram, tiktok, twitter, snapchat, et al - don't really appeal to me. Especially short-form content, which I find extra annoying.

[tfowinder@lemmy.ml]

I personally don't use anything other than Lemmy and Whatsapp.

I use reddit but only through google search where is type reddit at the end of the search query.

Occasionally i use Instagram for local news and updates on my friends/relatives.

[nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Lemmy is the only social media i have.

And i guess discord but that's just for my weekly d&d group and nothing else

[wispy2891@lemmy.world]

It's not normal here? I'm only Lemmy+mastodon (with a bsky bridge)

[stovetop@lemmy.world]

Lemmy is the only platform I participate on. I do occasionally check some niche subs on Reddit for hobbies and games I follow for news/suggestions/ideas/etc., but no idle browsing and no contributing, not even through votes.

I also sometimes pop onto Reddit just to manually edit and delete more of my comment history, because the automated tools are apparently only capable of seeing the past year. Once I finally get through everything, I can delete my account, but it's a slow process with years worth of content to remove going back to 2010.

[baggachipz@sh.itjust.works]

Add me to the “hardcore” list. There’s just no need for that evil crap. I’m fine just on Lemmy, it keeps the consumption under control.

[rhynoplaz@lemmy.world]

I guess I'm hardcore now.

[redditisdeddit@lemmy.world]

at this point I only use Lenny and Reddit is just something that comes up in search results

[quilotoa@lemmy.ca]

I peek into Reddit when I have a specific need. They have some good miscellaneous information posts. Otherwise, I'm here.

[stovetop@lemmy.world]

Admittedly I can't see why it's that surprising, the format is almost a carbon copy of Reddit.

When I think of old forums, I think of the chronological-only format with no voting. There is a top post in a thread, and all replies that follow are a single chain of chronological posts. No nested threads of parent/child comments that help keep conversations more organized, and no upvoting/downvoting which affect the sort criteria.

Not to mention older forums are usually directly admin-managed throughout, as in not just anyone is able to start a subforum/community on their own for a given interest within a site that they then moderate and can appoint their own co-moderators for. There's a site admin or admins, and maybe a group of admin-appointed moderators who help manage the entire thing.

[real_squids@sopuli.xyz]

boost probably does too, but boost for lemmy is superior. that's what I use

[tudsamfa@lemmy.world]

Discord, YouTube and Twitch. Even if I don't count 1 because I don't really build any online presence, all 3 together probably count as having mainstream social media no matter how strict the definition.

[shanmugha@lemmy.world]

Reddit stopped being mainstream for me since the API bullshit, so... hardcore I am, guess I

[illi@sh.itjust.works]

It's not that I try to ne hardcore. Reddit was alright, but I felt subconciously it is going to shit for some time. But I liked the format, so I stayed. The API fiasco just showed the really bad face of it (mainly how it was handled) and made an opportunity for people to talk more about alternatives. Sure, Lemmy doesn't have as much stuff as Reddit, especially for more niche topics but I enjoy my stay much more.

I peeked in a couple of times but not for long.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

I am hardcore lemmy user

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[bo7a@lemmy.ca]

I am so hardcore. Like Quickdraw McGraw. Fuck what you heard, you ain't heard this before.