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 here
10+ years of Reddit and switched here a year ago. Lemmy only.
I only use Lemmy. Fuck Reddit. And this is from someone who spent over a decade using Reddit religiously. I dropped them during the whole API scandal. I had been growing more and now dissatisfied with Reddit and that was the last straw.
The only mainstream social media program I use is Facebook, and I don’t really use it anymore. I only keep my profile because I’ve met people from all over the world who I stay in touch with through Facebook. Plus all my childhood friends and family members are there. But Facebook (and Meta as a whole) is garbage and I have a bunch of tools to prevent them from feeding me garbage content and recording my data while I’m trying to keep up with my friends and family there.
I have a Bluesky account, which I don’t know what to do with. Twitter always felt like social media for celebrities; there wasn’t much going on there for us normal people. I created a Bluesky account just to get away from Twitter, but I don’t have much to post and none of it gets attention from anyone, so I just feel like I’m talking to myself. I don’t have anyone really interesting to follow there either.
I also use Discord to stay in touch with my closest friends, on a personal server I built. That’s pretty much it. I don’t trust any other social media programs. So Lemmy is my main source of news and content.
I’m fingerprint banned from reddit now. I worked tooth and nail making thousands of frivolous reports via browser after the API thing. If I’m not mistaken mods used 3rd party apps to help with moderation. I figured I’d make being king of shit mountain a little more of a headache since those tools were out too.
I’ll peek in on reddit every once in a while. I clearly don’t have an account there so the front page garbage is what shows up. It feels like the internet version of walking down a coast with a beached whale carcass rotting on it. Once majestic, the bloated carrion now serves as a feeding ground for vultures and bottom feeders. The smell is awful. The beach volleyball area is clearly full of bots who have no sense of smell. The beachgoers there for a day at the beach either don’t realize or don’t care that their beach is littered with poop all over in the sand.
Why would it matter?
There are people here who believe that North Korea and China are actually amazing places to live despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. We’re talking people who, in one thread, discuss discrimination in the U.S. while espousing the virtues of fucking China on discrimination. To remind you, China is an ethnostate. For us to be like China, we would need to secure white dominance in the U.S. — because that is what China has done with the Han.
These people would cause a genocide or worse. And they’re fucking all over Lemmy. I wouldn’t limit myself to anything on Lemmy for anything other than Linux advice.
No Reddit for me. Had a 10+ year old account there. Disabling 3rd party apps was a clear sign that the platform was no longer a good place to be.
Exactly the same, only using Lemmy now. It’s cozy here
Me, too. Got Sync as soon as it was available and haven’t looked back.
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I don’t use Mastodon beyond what my blog posts automatically. And I rarely make new blog posts anyways. I don’t really see the point of microblogging beyond getting keeping up with news from different organisations. But I don’t have the energy to keep up anyways, so I don’t need it.
In terms of keeping in touch with my friends and family I only use Signal.
I can’t use Reddit because I got permabanned across all accounts a while back because I was criticizing a video of a drunk white guy making unwanted advances towards an Asian woman in a restaurant.
Also got banned for criticizing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
Also caught a ban for being too critical about Indians and their rape culture.
I am one that only uses Lemmy
Never heard of it
Hardcore? Reddit abd Twittter are full of bots and garbage, how does avoiding that make anyone hardcore? I think “more well informed” is the phrase you are looking for.
Yeah, Lemmy and Mastodon only for me too.
I only use Lemmy since the reddit API Fuck up.
Sometimes, if I am looking for information, I visit reddit, but I treat it like any other random forum I look up something, take the info and fuck off again.
I use YouTube, if you wanna count that. I don’t comment there and use Newpipe or PipePipe, so only consuming and no participation there too.
I haven’t used any other social media, like Facebook or Instagram, so nothing hardcore for me in just continuing not to do so.
Same on all fronts. Not commenting on YouTube has been a good thing I’d say 90% of the time, it’s a terrible place to try to have a discussion with their comment format.
Using Reddit even for occasional information is becoming a pain in the arse now with a lot of stuff locked behind login or behind other hurdles like CAPTCHA / AI challenges. They don’t like us ‘dine and dash’ visitors it seems.
I stopped commenting on YouTube videos when they stopped showing me a list of connects i made in the past.
I’m that hardcore. Partly because I’m also a habitual Tor user, and post-IPO Reddit seems to dislike that.
Edit: Although I still will browse old Reddit as a guest sometimes, because not everything exists on Lemmy yet. I dread the day they pull the plug on the old frontend.
I left Twitter around 2008 (or whenever they stopped allowing posts through SMS), left Facebook proper a few years later (with the exception of chat, as it’s the only way I talk with certain people.) I left Reddit during the API debacle. I used to post my art on Instagram, but ever since the turn toward “influencers” took over, I’ve stopped posting there, too. I never got into TikTok or whatever else might be out there today.
I made a Bluesky account just before it took off in popularity last year, but I don’t use it except to look for pictures after protests. I made a Mastodon account, but have yet to post at all.
So yeah, Lemmy’s the one and only social media I post/comment to right now. Social media is exhausting, but Lemmy doesn’t blast ads at me, doesn’t bug me when I don’t post after a while, and its semi-anonymous nature means it’s easier to let things go when people disagree. Everything else is too stressful to deal with, especially after a long work day when all I really want to do is catch up with the news.
Post on reddit, never. Still updates faster than lemmy, tho.
