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Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media? (piefed.ca)

submitted 10 hours ago by WongKaKui@piefed.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Only YouTube.

I was pretty addicted to Reddit for a while, but eventually I got banned for basically no reason and that was enough to get me to almost entirely stop checking it.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think YouTube counts as social media. Also, you can disable ads, comments and shorts, it feels so much better

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Why would YouTube not count as social media?

Pre-rebuttal in case you go in this direction: Being a social media platform and being a video sharing platform are not mutually exclusive.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago) (1 children)

It's just TV, there's nothing social about it for many people

Like Netflix with a different library

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 29 minutes ago

That's a way to use it (and the one I prefer) but it's still media with social components, ergo social media.