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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.

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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.

Reddit is only good for the occasional Google search.

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

I am ip banned from reddit for making 'threats' only check reddit as a news aggregate because it's a little quicker

I use Reddit to investigate niche topics. Sometimes I want people's say instead of these blogs showing top 10 house renting service.

The pure scale of Reddit users makes it more attractive in this regards right now

I do Lemmy and blue sky. I have mastodon but don't go there much anymore.

I watch videos on YouTube if that counts as social media.

Lemmy, NPR, and AP are the only things I read now.

lemmy exclusively for me! ive been here since i got kicked off of the boost app lol

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.

I left social media earlier this year. Lemmy is my transition platform. I hope to eventually drop off the internet entirely except for job and practical related things.

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?!”

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BBS -> Slashdot -> Reddit -> Lemmy -> ???

They all have their time. I'll see some of y'all on whatever is next. It branches, I didn't do digg.

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 didn't leave Reddit, Reddit disabled the app I used to access it for over 10 years when they disabled API access. Figured they didn't want or need my contributions anymore.

In a way, Reddit is helping me move to Lemmy permanently by not letting me post.

Reddit stopped being mainstream for me since the API bullshit, so... hardcore I am, guess I

Avoiding the shit from enshittification isn't hardcore, it's just the normal adult thing to do.

On the two subs I frequented:

• /r/thelastairbender is just cultish and shallow now. I abandoned it. But it's painful for me, as this is like the only sane place left the fandom has any critical mass. /c/thelastairbender is nice, but very quiet.

• /r/localllama Has... lost its intelligence? Like no one seems to experiment or talk technically anymore, good talk seems to be on github, or shattered across Discords, while the 'critical mass' is in the AI Bro black hole of Twitter and Linkedin. I read it, but never post anymore. localllama here is better, but smaller and downvoted to hell.

Also, I've been shadowbanned on like 4 accounts in 3 different IPs/machines, no explanation, no recourse. I never post anything political or even remotely provocative (unless links to Lemmy count) and only visit those two subs, so... Yeah, kinda sick of that.

I've been off reddit for years before Lemmy. I do have an Instagram account, logged into the app on an otherwise empty Android VM, which means I'm not fully hardcore. Need that because people are way cagey about giving out their phone number, but everyone wants you to write them on insta. Could just ignore that, but I like meeting people.

Nothing non-federated apart from that, though.

I don't use reddit aside from reading search results. I never post and never explicitly seek it out.

I deleted Twitter years ago. I never used Facebook or Instagram or tiktok. That shit's bad for you.

It's annoying that some places will make announcements only on shitty platforms. None of my friends are this "hardcore" , so sometimes I find out about stuff like a concert or protest or whatever because one of them sees it on Instagram

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 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.

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.

Lemmy only here

I'm such a solipsist, I'm surprised reddit is still relevant to anyone. I certainly come across some posts when searching for tech or product questions, but that's it.

Although even outside of the fedi, I spend more and more of my time just looking at people's individual websites and blogs. I've got a basically bottomless RSS feed curated by this point, so I don't even need an aggregator for the scroll -- I've got my own.

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.

Me, but that's because Reddit permabanned me on the post- inauguration bloodbath.

In some ways I like Lemmy a lot better for things like politics. It doesn't have all the puns, trolls, Russian Propaganda Farmers, bots, novelty accounts, etc., so while they are fewer comments, they tend to be more substantial. I can also mostly say what I think without getting suspended.

On the other hand, I miss some of the personal forums, which are far more active on Reddit. I'd like the guitar forums to be more active, but they barely have any posts. Most have weeks or even months between posts, while Reddits have a constant flow, every minute. I keep saying that I'm going to start posting content as often as possible, but I haven't yet. Maybe I'll start this week.

Most people in here got banned or erased their Reddit account

I'd imagine is a pretty small amount

I mostly browse Lemmy, but I occasionally check Reddit. I never really got into the microblogging types of platforms (Mastodon, X, Bluesky, Threads, etc) for some reason

Lemmy and Mastodon now for 4 years. It's the only social media I regular use. Ok there is a bluesky and nostr account but I visit them once in a month.

Add me to the “hardcore” list. There’s just no need for that evil crap. I’m fine just on Lemmy, it keeps the consumption under control.