Ask Lemmy

10+ years of Reddit and switched here a year ago. Lemmy only.

Hardcore? Reddit abd Twittter are full of bots and garbage, how does avoiding that make anyone hardcore? I think "more well informed" is the phrase you are looking for.

Does leeching off of Reddit with redlib instances count as using it?

I still use reddit.

Lemmy is still missing a few things:

• Sports discussion. There's nothing quite like the absurdity of some of the sports communities that really brightens my day, from really deep analytical insights to the dumbest meme jokes in existence.
• City-specific local discussion. I still spend time on my city's subreddit, which helps keep me tuned in on local happenings.
• Non-tech related career discussion. My field (law) has several subreddits useful for talking shop, growing careers, making fun of shitty lawyers, etc. That doesn't really exist here.
• Hobby discussion. I'm trying my best to participate in fitness and weight lifting related subreddits but there just isn't a critical mass of commenters to get a discussion really going. Plenty of my other hobbies and interests are missing here, too.

I've deleted the reddit alts I used to use for technology related topics, parenting/relationship topics, political discussion, and stupid general purpose humor or memes, as Lemmy has enough of that I don't need Reddit for those topics. But for the ones I've listed above, I'm still using desktop "old" Reddit.

I'm also still on Instagram, but only follow people I know personally. It's the easiest way to keep up with my acquaintances' lives: who's marrying who, who's having kids, where people have moved, etc.

Lemmy only here

I only use Lemmy. Fuck Reddit. And this is from someone who spent over a decade using Reddit religiously. I dropped them during the whole API scandal. I had been growing more and now dissatisfied with Reddit and that was the last straw.

The only mainstream social media program I use is Facebook, and I don't really use it anymore. I only keep my profile because I've met people from all over the world who I stay in touch with through Facebook. Plus all my childhood friends and family members are there. But Facebook (and Meta as a whole) is garbage and I have a bunch of tools to prevent them from feeding me garbage content and recording my data while I'm trying to keep up with my friends and family there.

I have a Bluesky account, which I don't know what to do with. Twitter always felt like social media for celebrities; there wasn't much going on there for us normal people. I created a Bluesky account just to get away from Twitter, but I don't have much to post and none of it gets attention from anyone, so I just feel like I'm talking to myself. I don't have anyone really interesting to follow there either.

I also use Discord to stay in touch with my closest friends, on a personal server I built. That's pretty much it. I don't trust any other social media programs. So Lemmy is my main source of news and content.

Why would it matter?

There are people here who believe that North Korea and China are actually amazing places to live despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. We're talking people who, in one thread, discuss discrimination in the U.S. while espousing the virtues of fucking China on discrimination. To remind you, China is an ethnostate. For us to be like China, we would need to secure white dominance in the U.S. — because that is what China has done with the Han.

These people would cause a genocide or worse. And they're fucking all over Lemmy. I wouldn't limit myself to anything on Lemmy for anything other than Linux advice.

Just started using Lemmy. I’m getting used to it and like it for a lot of things but there’s literally no sports communities which I used Reddit for a lot so I don’t think I can completely stop using Reddit.

I'm fingerprint banned from reddit now. I worked tooth and nail making thousands of frivolous reports via browser after the API thing. If I'm not mistaken mods used 3rd party apps to help with moderation. I figured I'd make being king of shit mountain a little more of a headache since those tools were out too.

I'll peek in on reddit every once in a while. I clearly don't have an account there so the front page garbage is what shows up. It feels like the internet version of walking down a coast with a beached whale carcass rotting on it. Once majestic, the bloated carrion now serves as a feeding ground for vultures and bottom feeders. The smell is awful. The beach volleyball area is clearly full of bots who have no sense of smell. The beachgoers there for a day at the beach either don't realize or don't care that their beach is littered with poop all over in the sand.

I can't use Reddit because I got permabanned across all accounts a while back because I was criticizing a video of a drunk white guy making unwanted advances towards an Asian woman in a restaurant.

Also got banned for criticizing Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Also caught a ban for being too critical about Indians and their rape culture.

No Reddit for me. Had a 10+ year old account there. Disabling 3rd party apps was a clear sign that the platform was no longer a good place to be.

Yeah, Lemmy and Mastodon only for me too.

I am one that only uses Lemmy

I only use Lemmy since the reddit API Fuck up.

Sometimes, if I am looking for information, I visit reddit, but I treat it like any other random forum I look up something, take the info and fuck off again.

I use YouTube, if you wanna count that. I don't comment there and use Newpipe or PipePipe, so only consuming and no participation there too.

I haven't used any other social media, like Facebook or Instagram, so nothing hardcore for me in just continuing not to do so.

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I don't use Mastodon beyond what my blog posts automatically. And I rarely make new blog posts anyways. I don't really see the point of microblogging beyond getting keeping up with news from different organisations. But I don't have the energy to keep up anyways, so I don't need it.

In terms of keeping in touch with my friends and family I only use Signal.

Me. I got banned for saying I wished MTG would trip and swallow her own head- apparently this was inciting violence. I appealed twice, then gave up. Also killing off Apollo pretty much soured me, and then everything went total bot farm bullshit. So, lemmy for me from now on!

I'm that hardcore. Partly because I'm also a habitual Tor user, and post-IPO Reddit seems to dislike that.

Edit: Although I still will browse old Reddit as a guest sometimes, because not everything exists on Lemmy yet. I dread the day they pull the plug on the old frontend.

I left Twitter around 2008 (or whenever they stopped allowing posts through SMS), left Facebook proper a few years later (with the exception of chat, as it's the only way I talk with certain people.) I left Reddit during the API debacle. I used to post my art on Instagram, but ever since the turn toward "influencers" took over, I've stopped posting there, too. I never got into TikTok or whatever else might be out there today.

I made a Bluesky account just before it took off in popularity last year, but I don't use it except to look for pictures after protests. I made a Mastodon account, but have yet to post at all.

So yeah, Lemmy's the one and only social media I post/comment to right now. Social media is exhausting, but Lemmy doesn't blast ads at me, doesn't bug me when I don't post after a while, and its semi-anonymous nature means it's easier to let things go when people disagree. Everything else is too stressful to deal with, especially after a long work day when all I really want to do is catch up with the news.

I got banned from reddit for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and my appeal was declined in minutes. This has led me to the conclusion that Reddit is pro nazi and ban evasion is a lot of work.

I do still peep at it because ngl Lemmy doesn't have that endless stream of content going.

I left Reddit 2 or 3 years back and have only used Lemmy since.

I joined through Lemm.ee so recently had to move over to Lemmy.zip

I think this was a net positive for me overall. Lemmy has a lot less content which helped me break the “I’m slightly bored let me pull out my phone and scroll Reddit” addiction I didn’t even realize I had. Now I check Lemmy maybe once or twice a day, still see the big important events and the couple communities I care about.

I was never one for twitter, so I don’t bother with trying to find a replacement for that.

Overall the less social media I use the better I feel. I think future generations will look back on our constant use of social media and dopamine mining the same way we look back on how people used to smoke everywhere.

We know it’s bad for us, but we like the dopamine so everyone just does it everywhere, we give toddlers tablets so they can start dopamine mining as early as possible. I hope our descendants look back at this time with a sense of “holy shit they just let people smoke in the nurseries at the hospital?!”

I logged in a few times after creating my account here, but now I don't even bother.

It was fun, it got worse, and now it's full on garbage.

Post on reddit, never. Still updates faster than lemmy, tho.

I wouldn't call it 'hardcore' not to use crap like that. I've never used Reddit, Twitter instagram or any of that (with one brief exception). Only the Fediverse. Made my mastodon account in 2018 and that's all I used until I made this Lemmy account last year.

The exception was: back about 15 years or so ago, some people talked me into making a facebook account because they had a group on there. I reluctantly made the account and read their posts for a while but it was just stupid meaningless tripe, so I never posted anything on there and after a while I deleted the account. During that time it was apparently hijacked because I logged on and someone had made a completely weird profile on it. Don't know how they did it but I changed the password and removed the stuff which seemed to work, that's when I submitted the deletion request to FB though who knows what happened to it after that.

edit: I should add that I do use Youtube (mainly via Freetube but not always) and I do read reddit posts when I search for things and it comes up as a relevant result.

Not using mainstream social media isn't "hard core" - it is being sensible and actually giving a shit.

I am using Lemmy only. I may be doing something wrong, because can not access any other Instances. Lemmy World only... need more practice I reckon...

I had seven billion updoots or whatever on reddit. I haven't used it for 2 years.

Also, why is that "hardcore"? You might want to reevaluate your relationshio with social media and computing. If you can't disconnect from it that sounds unhealthy.

I don't have a reddit account and only comment on lemmy. Although I do check the reddit frontpage every so often the actual communities I interact with are here.

Other than that, I have a mastodon account which I'm quite active on and a letterboxd too. Last thing would be linkedin but I don't post there and maybe login to it once a quarter.

i primarily use lemmy these days, but still have to use a few other things.

I still browse reddit for this like episode discussion threads for amine and other tv. lemmy will have maybe 5 responses in the threads for the 3 biggest shows of a season. it's just not there yet.

I'm also a videographer, in our modern age that means i NEED to be on Instagram, YouTube, and tiktok because those are the platforms everyone wants me to make things for. can't know how to make things for a platform I don't use, sadly. especially since "just make something good" doesn't work on any of them. in fact making something that looks good is often more of a hinderence these days and it kills me.

i hate short form video. i hate every mainstream social media platform. i just want to make pretty videos and not have to deal with tiktok trends. I learned 10 ways to attach a lav mic secure and tidy in school. I must now hold the lav mic in my fingers because that's what's trendy and following the trends is the ONE thing that DEFINITELY works.

I hate what has come of my profession. at this point I'm just ready for the ai to take my job so i can blow my head off in peace.

Probably about 99% Lemmy but occasionally there just isn’t a community in the Fediverse or doesn’t have the traffic that Reddit does. But I avoid Reddit as much as possible. Its devolved into an AI driven echo chamber.

Created this account two years ago in the big fuck u/spez boom, forgot about it for two years, and started transition to fedi a few months ago, don’t use Reddit, sometimes peek onto twitter (via nitter) to piss myself off

I only use Lemmy and deleted my reddit account. I didn't bother with Mastadon or BlueSky. Then again I didn't bother with Facebook or Twatter either. If it's important it does bubble up to Lemmy with less bots and brigading going on so that's a plus. I do have a few YouTube channels I watch that are either about fixing stuff or oddball humor. From my own personal observation, there is a noticable difference between social media addict behavior and people who don't make it their entire existence.

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.

Lemmy only since the reddit purge