Cuz the comments throught Lemmy/Piefed seems to indicate that literally every user on here is a FOSS/Dencentralization Purist and has 100% abandoned mainstream platforms.
I wonder if this is actually true or just a small minority of users being overrepresented.
I barely use Facebook like once a week maybe for 10 mins, and sometimes I’ll click a Reddit link. Also check LinkedIn 1-2 times a month
I have a facebook account for work, but I only login every few months and only sandboxed with Firefox. Otherwise, no. Never had a twitter account and I ditched reddit during the api change.
the fediverse platforms i use are Lemmy, Mastodon, and PeerTube
i dont use any nonfree social media but am active on Discord (which is social media adjacent, being a chatroom platform)
i also watch Youtube videos (through Invidious) and occasionally browse Reddit meme communities but i dont have accounts on those
and i havent abandoned any mainstream platforms, i never used them, was never allowed to by parents (and never wanted to because i was properly educated about online privacy) (the reason i have discord is a dnd group)
i went down the libre software pipeline due to autism and my first pc running linux (my dad is a tech person), ive only ever had linux computers and a macbook (not counting mobile devices tho; i have an iphone and plan to replace it with a linux phone)
I have a business profile on Instagram. I haven’t used mainstream social media for personal reasons since 2008 or something like that.
Never have. Was always a stupid idea. Annonymous or don’t bother.
I have been in communities and chatting since the bbs days. So it’s not like I am adverse to it.
But lately I see people saying, I can’t quit Instagram or Facebook, it’s where my friends are.
I am beginning to basically wonder: do you really want to be friends with people who directly support billionaires and fascism and propaganda? You are directly paying for that by participating. I am starting to cut people out of my life who won’t leave. I’ve had enough.
As someone who grew up before the internet was adopted, then got into Angelfire/Geocities “about me” pages, early MySpace & Facebook; it wasn’t a stupid idea. The early years were amazing because suddenly we were in touch with people all over the world, friends half forgotten, and artists. MySpace and then Facebook was a game changer for booking bands if you were a small venue or house and for tour managers of indie bands in the early 00s. I booked and wrote for a print zine back then and got to book some phenomenal shows and interview some bands I probably never would have if it weren’t for the ease of what social media created. But it had a price. By the ‘10s I noticed the need to look DIY or like one was participating through curated “likes”, posts, or pictures was more important than actually participating. Then it just became shit. I still have an Insta for my dogs because it remains a decent platform for networking with dog rescues and volunteers across country (I wish someone with the tech skill would develop something exclusive for us to use for that), but otherwise it’s become garbage. But for a while it was as revolutionary as the telegraph or telephone for people who’d never been able to connect with others in that manner. Then, like robocalls and telemarketers, the corporate assholes found a way to exploit a fundamental human desire- to connect with other humans.
youtube and discord but only because i cant live without those (youtube for youtubers and updates, discord for friends)
I have FB for marketplace a couple times a year, I don’t install the app unless I’m buying something.
I watch a LOT of educational YouTube, and some tech news on there, using GrayJay.
Otherwise, this is it.
Used to have insta years ago.
I guess I technically have Marco Polo, but it’s literally my immediate family only 🤷♂️ and that’s more chat app than social media.
Edit: oh and discord for the couple of friends who use it. Plus I’m on a couple of servers for my hobbies, very specific, I hardly look at them unless I’m active in a given hobby at that moment.
I lurk on Reddit but no longer have an active account.
Nothing else
I do not use mainstream social media. Haven’t in years.
I still have a Facebook account, but I refuse to even look at my feed. I don’t really want to know what most of my family is up to, however Marketplace, sadly, is better than Craigslist ever was.
Still have my old YouTube account, but I rarely look at it.
No Gram/Twitter/LinkedIn Permabanned from the mainstream link aggregator what feels like forever ago
Don’t remember my Tumblr login
This is it for me.
Must feel liberating ❤️
There is a group in Fecesbook about the war in Ukraine and the Russia. It is the most up-to-date and best-curated information source regarding the war, so I will follow that group until the war is finally over.
There’s also a Finnish group for people travelling ecologically. I regularly browse questions people are posing there and if I’m the only one who knows a good answer, I write one. That group now has a sister community here on Forumverse, and any new content I want to write, I write in that comm instead of the Fecesbook group.
Otherwise I am outside all commercial social media. I do not have a google account, so I browse Youtube without login if I browse it. And typically using Tubular as my client program.
never had facebook, instagram, etc …
i skimmed reddit for a year before finding the fediverse. i’ve only ever been a lurker on reddit but have written 5k comments on lemmy so far …
I have FB/IG, and to a lesser extent Reddit, exclusively to share Socialist and activist content, and keep up to date with what’s going on. Most orgs still use FB/IG. 🤷♂️
I still enjoy reddit, while acknowledging how shitty it actually is (been a member since 2006 lol).
I’ve degoogled everything except Youtube. I don’t really consider youtube social media since I’m not interacting with people.
I also have bluesky, mostly for lefty content. Honestly if all of it, including fediverse, went away tomorrow, I wouldn’t care that much. I kind of hate everything about the internet these days…I much prefer meatspace socializing, even as an introvert.
I’m still on Discord and YouTube, but I’d prefer a world where we could move to various alternatives.
I don’t even hate social media sites run by profit motivated companies. It’s a question of how profit-motivated and unregulated they want to be. Ideally, it shouldn’t be so hard to move - so that users don’t become “locked in” to a poor system, and competitors can show off the space’s problems.
YouTube and discord if you can call those social media and Tumblr if you can call that mainstream.
