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Just Lemmy. I have a FB so my wife can tag me in shit and I can sell crap on market place. Haven't posted or made a change in like 6 years.

Reddit, LinkedIn and YouTube. Those are hard to quit for me. I could easily make it with Facebook and Instagram, less easily with whatsapp which definetly affected the number of people I talk to..

Yes, Reddit and Discord

I never really clicked with other social media, but I still use Reddit a lot. The format is good (I'm here because its trying to build on that format) and it actually allows me to find content relevant to me, unlike most of the more algorithmic stuff.

I browse/post on Instagram as a way to vent about my job, without having to talk my housemates' ears off. Sometimes strangers find it funny. Plus, it's a requirement for Lemons Rally checkpoints, whenever I participate in those.

Whatever I post to Instagram auto-posts to my Facebook page; I don't use that site directly anymore, I mostly leave it up so my blood family knows I'm not dead. I don't talk to them directly anymore.

Still stuck with Discord for keeping up with my actual family, housemates and the like, only because I haven't had any luck convincing them to join me elsewhere.

Had a Reddit account for over twelve years, nuked it when third-party apps went away. Only time I go back to that site anymore, is for communities that don't exist (or are effectively dead) here on Lemmy. Very, very seldomly. Last time I made a comment on my current Reddit account was over a month ago.

Not even a little actually.

I'm well acquainted with the "I have an account for my social circle but just don't use it" version of this answer, and that's not what I mean. I genuinely never saw the appeal.

The only periods in my life where I ever held social media accounts were due to collective years of badgering and bullying by friends. I didn't get a facebook until 2017 or snapchat until I was basically about to graduate from college.

The moment I lost the social obligation I deleted those accounts with gusto and the sentiment "You know how to reach me." We all have phones and emails lol

The thing that always put me off social media more than anything, extending all the way back to the MySpace days, is how fake I would watch people I knew irl behave online. Someone could swear up and down that they hated someone's guts and wished them nothing but suffering in life... but online they'd send them friend requests and heart their little vacation posts. And that's without even going into the "personas" and curated images I'd see them project online...

I noticed myself almost fall into it once too. I uploaded two different profile pictures within a short timespan, and the one that felt a bit more staged and less like "myself" got a barrage of attention whereas me being myself was ignored. And I almost leaned into that for a couple of months before I caught myself and realized this is how personas start, and stopped trying to curate my photos for social media.

That place is not for human interaction, it's like one of those labrat drip-feeders, but for online validation. It's theater without conversation.

No

I have not in maybe a year except one or two times catching up with long distance family on Facebook. No more Instagram, partially because I can’t log in. They claim I’ve set up MFA and I have not. No more TikTok. I was only interested in lives and those became monotonous and littered with vendors. I watch YouTube videos and shorts but don’t really engage. And definitely no more Reddit. So not really because I’m a federated purist, but just because Lemmy is working for me. Believe me though, as soon as it doesn’t I’m gone.

A little bit, but it makes up very little of my usage. The fact that this is smaller and less hyper-optimized for engagement has been helpful in reducing my usage so I'm intentional about making it hard to use much other social media

I make it hard to use the fediverse too much too. It's just easier when its not a massive platform capable of surfacing the most optimized, hyper engaging thing you've ever seen one after another for 8 hours straight every single day 😅

Not really. I don't use social media that much. Except for linkedin, which is the main way of finding jobs over here. But there I just have some email subscriptions for certain job watches, so except for reading the emails and job offerings I don't interact much with it.

Never have. Was always a stupid idea. Annonymous or don't bother.

I have been in communities and chatting since the bbs days. So it's not like I am adverse to it.

But lately I see people saying, I can't quit Instagram or Facebook, it's where my friends are.

I am beginning to basically wonder: do you really want to be friends with people who directly support billionaires and fascism and propaganda? You are directly paying for that by participating. I am starting to cut people out of my life who won't leave. I've had enough.

I still read a few things on Reddit occasionally, and I'll search for answers using site:reddit.com. I just don't log in or post.

I wanted to say not for quite some time now, but I forgot Discord. That'd be the only one I still use. I wish I could switch to one of the open source alternatives, but it's hard getting literal hundreds of people to switch, and we also need some discord bots too :/
Before that there was reddit, but I deleted my account during the great exodus.

I have a facebook account for work, but I only login every few months and only sandboxed with Firefox. Otherwise, no. Never had a twitter account and I ditched reddit during the api change.

Just this and Substack for me!

I still browse Reddit read-only via RedLib

Depends. YT only for the videos, but some consider that as a social media. FB only for the messenger part. Never found a more use for it or have had any other social media accounts. Bamned from Reddit. Discord got deleted due to not using it for long enough, i have some curse when setting up microphones.

So only this place sees some intended active use.

Not in last 9 years.

Yes but i use it a lot less since joining the fediverse exoect Youtube

Youtube,

Otherwise, No. No FB, no insta, no reddit, no shitter

Does linkedin count? Lol

No, left them all a while ago and haven't looked back.

You know to my surprise, I actually don't... I'll watch a YouTube video or read a reddit post, but I don't go there on my own or ever sign in anymore.

Discord has for sure been hard to avoid, but I just don't chat with those people I guess. Some have come over to Delta chat, but if I really need to reach someone I'll just text them.

It had to get really, really, awfully, embarrassingly bad for me to leave Facebook. But it really was, and a few years ago I did. If Facebook was only half as awful as it is, I would probably still be on it.

And the sneaking suspicion that every social media site will eventually devolve into Facebook has kept me from joining any more.

I still use Youtube for videos on how to do DIY home projects and repairs, but I don’t consider that social media. To me, “social media” is not “an app that distributes content”. I would say “social media” has the user’s real name on it and is for the purpose of interacting with friends and family, and meeting new people. That’s definitely not what I use Youtube for.

Yes, I use facebook to keep track of which local bands have upcoming shows, get invites to friends' barbeques, and exchange things on the marketplace.

I use reddit to discuss politics and books and food.

I watch a video on YouTube every now and then, mostly when someone sends me something.

LinkedIn exists but it has not been updated in some years.

I keep a fake Facebook profile around because some businesses and such don't have any online preference besides their Facebook page so if I want to know about deals and events they're running that's the only place I can find them

I do admit that I occasionally get sucked into scrolling through the feed, but especially over the last few months it's becoming increasingly full of nothing but AI slop

I never really had much of a social media presence besides that. Was on Reddit for a long time, deleted my account over the API bullshit, once upon a time I had a twitter, never used it much, deleted it when musk took over. Never had an Instagram or tiktok.