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?
Lemmy is the only one I check daily. I don’t bother with reddit unless I’m using a search engine and can’t find the answer I’m looking for. Even then, reddit’s not all that great anymore since a huge chunk of the user base deleted all their shit and left.
reddit links from searches are the only times i land there.
Lemmy, NPR, and AP are the only things I read now.
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.
I stopped using Reddit when I switched to Lemmy.
Only lemmy, I’m too spicy for corporate social media. Now if I said insane racist shit in support of trump, I’d be fine. But that’s not me. I’m pointedly in favor of personal freedoms. Which is NOT in line with the end user agreements.
I literally only use Lemmy, I’m not even all that interested in Mastodon XD
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 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
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.
Reddit is only good for the occasional Google search.
Before the Reddit Exodus I only used Reddit and YouTube. Social media is a plague. Once I left Reddit I never looked back and now use Lemmy exclusively. I don’t really see it as “hardcore”, it’s just me avoiding the worst and most stressful facet of modern society. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything by not using any other social media.
When I’m researching something and a reddit link pops up in search results, I’ll check it. But I have abandoned my account and won’t be logging back in. Aside from that, I try to be as hardcore as possible.
I’ve never been an avid Reddit user, so on that front it’s very easy to me.
Still, I do interact with some of the other mainstream media.
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.
