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 only visit for my niche subs, and even then it’s maybe once or twice a month at most. I just check the top posts for the month, and then leave. In and out. 20 minute adventure.
I don’t have an account on other social media.
Once in a while I do searches like “alternative to X site:reddit.com” for software, movie recommendations, etc. So I do use it, just don’t participate. Mostly because it’s designed to breed hate and distrust.
Reddit has some sort of permabanned me, so I cannot get even new accounts there. So you guys get to enjoy me here, yay!
They unfortunately still have the critical mass, and even though Lemmy is getting better on that front, there’s just so much more stuff on Reddit.
Reddit sucks. I’m here only.
Not quite 100% yet - I still check in with R every week or two vs looking in on Lemmy daily.
I use Lemmy 99.999% of the time. I asked a plumbing question on Reddit, some radio questions a few months back, and that’s really all I can remember. I don’t browse it. I don’t avoid it if search results go there though. But I don’t seek it out often at all.
Thanks for the reminder to go delete my old comments and posts. Reddit is dead to me. I stopped using it two years ago. I’ll occasionally go there if there’s a legit looking search result for what I’m looking for, but I don’t bother logging in or interacting with the platform. Reddit is blocked by my work, which is typically what I’m searching for from there so it’s useless anyways.
Is this considered “hardcore”? After the mobile apps bit the dust I left and never looked back. I don’t like meta stuff because of privacy concerns. Fediverse only for me
I haven’t been back since the killing of third party apps. I had no interest in using Reddit any other way. I haven’t been back and I won’t go back. The Fediverse is better in every conceivable way.
Haven’t looked at reddit since the first exodus. Feels good.
I exclusively use Lemmy on my phone, only time I use reddit if I’m searching something and it pops up in the results because it usually has the answer or gets me closer to it
I haven’t looked at reddit since whenever they disabled 3rd party apps. I was on kbin for a while but find myself over here now.
I don’t think it’s particularly hardcore myself, I’ve just been moving away from platforms as they’ve been enshittifying. I was on reddit over ten years but left over the API thing and haven’t been back. I stopped using Facebook a few years ago and haven’t missed it at all. I stopped using twitter when musk bought it, tried using mastodon for a bit but it was kinda barren so I’m on bluesky now. I still check in on mastodon occasionally. I’ll move on from these platforms too if they turn to shit. It’s easy to get caught in a kinda sunk cost thing with platforms, but really it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been there, how many Facebook friends you have, how much karma, whatever - if it turns to shit it’s time to move on, and best go early to avoid the rush!
most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently. im here instead, because reddit would just ban any new accounts after you been shadowbanned, if your not using ban evasion methods which cost some money: like new IP, mobile phone, browser,etc.
ALso the significant amount of astroturfing and gatekeeping of political and news discussion on reddit is enough to trigger arguments on both sides getting you banned. plus reddit also using AI moderation to ban people indiscriminately. plus the amount of bots are staggering. its too easy to get banned on reddit, if you try to engage in any of the most controversial subs.
most cities,counties, country subreddits have been taken over by consevatives, and goody two shoes people, so its hard to engage in your regions sub most of teh time.
Besides two niche subreddits, I stopped using reddit. So it’s 90% Lemmy. I don’t use much else for social media except Something Awful and a heavily manually censored Discover tab on Bluesky because I’m sick of seeing Amercians crying and their politics. I wish we could region block entire countries on our personal social media accounts.
Anyways, the focus is reddit. I don’t really miss it because I could see the rot with bots, alts, power mods, site leadership, vote manipulation, etc etc.