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?
Not quite 100% yet - I still check in with R every week or two vs looking in on Lemmy daily.
Is this considered “hardcore”? After the mobile apps bit the dust I left and never looked back. I don’t like meta stuff because of privacy concerns. Fediverse only for me
I haven’t been back since the killing of third party apps. I had no interest in using Reddit any other way. I haven’t been back and I won’t go back. The Fediverse is better in every conceivable way.
I exclusively use Lemmy on my phone, only time I use reddit if I’m searching something and it pops up in the results because it usually has the answer or gets me closer to it
I don’t think it’s particularly hardcore myself, I’ve just been moving away from platforms as they’ve been enshittifying. I was on reddit over ten years but left over the API thing and haven’t been back. I stopped using Facebook a few years ago and haven’t missed it at all. I stopped using twitter when musk bought it, tried using mastodon for a bit but it was kinda barren so I’m on bluesky now. I still check in on mastodon occasionally. I’ll move on from these platforms too if they turn to shit. It’s easy to get caught in a kinda sunk cost thing with platforms, but really it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been there, how many Facebook friends you have, how much karma, whatever - if it turns to shit it’s time to move on, and best go early to avoid the rush!
Besides two niche subreddits, I stopped using reddit. So it’s 90% Lemmy. I don’t use much else for social media except Something Awful and a heavily manually censored Discover tab on Bluesky because I’m sick of seeing Amercians crying and their politics. I wish we could region block entire countries on our personal social media accounts.
Anyways, the focus is reddit. I don’t really miss it because I could see the rot with bots, alts, power mods, site leadership, vote manipulation, etc etc.
Haven’t looked at reddit since the first exodus. Feels good.
I quit the others when Facebook started to hold my friend’s messages hostage their invasive mobile app. I figured they only wanted the app installed so they could spy on me. I was right.
Lemmy all the time. I sometimes read Threads, though only when they recommended a story via Instagram, where my meme friends are
Lemmy only. No other social media, be it Twitter, Instagram, or any federated/FOSS alternative.
I still read some Reddit, but only signed out and I certainly don’t post.
I haven’t looked at reddit since whenever they disabled 3rd party apps. I was on kbin for a while but find myself over here now.
Lemmy, piefed, mastodon, sometimes pixelated. No reddit.
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Personally I use reddit a lot more than lemmy. My interests aren’t well represented here on lemmy. Still come here sometimes though.
I switched to Lemmy after Reddit killed bacon reader. Never looked back. joined world and discovered defederation drama. Joined lemm.ee. now I’m on .zip. I don’t want my instance dictating what I see. Even if it is the trifecta.
I use Mastodon also. I occasionally watch YouTube, but I don’t post, and I definitely don’t engage in the comments section.
Have not used Facebook in a decade. Not interested in tiktok or shorts. Occasionally pushed to imgur for the memes.
