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?

  • brandocorp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 hour ago

    When I’m researching something and a reddit link pops up in search results, I’ll check it. But I have abandoned my account and won’t be logging back in. Aside from that, I try to be as hardcore as possible.

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    Before the Reddit Exodus I only used Reddit and YouTube. Social media is a plague. Once I left Reddit I never looked back and now use Lemmy exclusively. I don’t really see it as “hardcore”, it’s just me avoiding the worst and most stressful facet of modern society. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything by not using any other social media.

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    I used to use purely Reddit. I stopped after the API nonsense. Now I’m purely on lemmy. I have no interest in any of the others.

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    Lemmy and RSS feed is all I use. I look at things my wife and 2 others friends will send me on instagram, but I never just scroll through it

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    I left Reddit at the start of the APIocalypse. Lemmy is the only social media I use unless you count Youtube which I watch through Newpipe and Smarttube. Tried Mastodon but its not for me.

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    I am ip banned from reddit for making ‘threats’ only check reddit as a news aggregate because it’s a little quicker

  • PlagueShip@lemmy.world
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    Lemmy is just too shitty. It takes a lot of skill to be shittier than Reddit. I wish someone would bring back something like Digg v3. Nobody even remembers it, but it was fantastic. It encouraged civility without moderators. All I could find is 3 screenshots.

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    Mostly Lemmy here. I use it for my doomscrolling and distraction, and for that it’s imho much better than Reddit, since the content is much less fake (I hate all that AITA creative writing and similar crap) and the politics are better.

    I do sometimes use Reddit for when I actually have questions about some deeper topic. Lemmy sadly doesn’t have the manpower and the decades of content to help me when I need to know how to overclock a specific 15 yo netbook or when I need help with some issue in a game or something. For that, there’s sadly hardly a way around Reddit. Some things can be (badly) covered by Stack Exchange, some things I can maybe find on DuckDuckGo between heaps of AI slop, or I could let ChatGPT lie to me by hallucinating a wrong answer. But in many cases there is sadly no way around Reddit.

  • Steven Tree Baxter@lemmy.world
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    28 minutes ago

    I’m on Lemmy because Reddit devs are letting their AI auto-ban their more intelligent users. Isn’t that similar to letting Telsa’s auto-drive into an auto-accident?

  • FRYD@sh.itjust.works
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    39 minutes ago

    I only use Lemmy. Not because I’m hardcore about the fediverse or anything, but because I wanted to start moving off all major social media. Now I rarely engage with any social media and I think it’s done wonders for my mental health.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    39 minutes ago

    I don’t use social media at all.

    I only use lemmy.

    I did have a reddit account at one point but it only had a handful of posts, mostly gratitude for solutions to problems I was searching about, with reddit being the top return with the correct answer… Got banned for some reason though, so even if I had interest in using reddit (which I dont),I cant anymore, lol.