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 myself hardcore for it, but yeah I only use Lemmy. Nothing else lol
Used to use reddit until they pulled their bullshit with 3rd party apps.
Edit: another answer made me reconsider what it means to “use” reddit, so yeah if I’m searching for information on Google or something and there’s an answer on Reddit I’ll read it, but I don’t log in or communicate on there at all.
I haven’t browsed Reddit since the creation of my Lemmy account (~2years ago); though I’ve wound up viewing a Reddit thread or two via a google search on rare occasion. Beyond those two, the only other ‘social media’ I’ve used in at least a decade is Youtube.
I pretty much just plugged my favorite subreddits into my rss readers of choice and never looked back (the same can be done with lemmy btw).
Edit: I believe this can also be done with 4chan, but I can no longer recall how it’s done. If anybody knows please lmk.
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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.
I’m read only on a privacy front end for Reddit and write and read for Lemmy. I figure I can help grow this place by contributing while staying tuned in to things on Reddit. I do hope this place grows, but it seems to have plateau’d.
I’ve replaced all my aimless Reddit scrolling with Lemmy. I’m not so purist I refuse to go there though - there’s still a lot of good info organized there, and it’s still decent for searches.
I’ve replaced Twitter too. Ironically Facebook is the one that sticks around, despite being probably the most user-hostile. That one’s built around people I know IRL and it’s not so easy to drop in a replacement. Even though it’s not very good for that or any purpose.
I haven’t used reddit since they removed the free API that FOSS apps were using. Lemmy is the only “reddit like” that I’ve used since. As for other social media, I left Facebook over 10 years ago, never used twitter, or anything newer that isn’t FOSS and federated. I’ve used mastodon since 2017. So I guess that makes me hardcore?
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.
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)
Reddit is only good for the occasional Google search.
Used to browse Reddit daily but not anymore. Still use it if I need help troubleshooting something or for some specific piece of information I am looking for.
I haven’t used Reddit since I made my Lemmy account aside from when it comes up incidentally in conversations or online searches.
Reddit isn’t anime friendly and I don’t wish to support organizations that feel that way.
Not yet. Reddit and Lemmy are my only social media, I don’t use anything else–I only see content from other sites, like TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc., on Reddit or Lemmy. There are a couple of klunky things about the Lemmy interface that bug me, which I’ve complained about already. And, the Lemmy communities I’m more interested in are not active enough to satisfy me. Lemmy still feels empty, but it’s getting better.
Haven’t been to reddit since I joined here.
