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?
I use Lemmy primarily. I try not to use Reddit, Meta, TikTok or anything else as much as I can if there is a Fediverse option.
Unfortunately, there are a few things you have to use that stuff for:
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Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.
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Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.
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Reddit for specific niche forums. If the community is active on Lemmy, I post questions here first but in some case I need an answer for something that doesn’t exist in the Fediverse yet.
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Yes? But I don’t think I’m hardcore, I started using Lemmy when I stopped using reddit.
Just lemmy for some years now. I do miss the Reddit of the olden days though. You know, when there was still some Aaron Schwartz in it.
Back in the I could go online and ask every goddamn question and a real person would give me an answer. There was this treasure trove of knowledge and opinions. Lemmy is sadly not quite there yet, but the memes are spicy and I like those nice socks you computer people wear.
I dream of the day, when somebody shuts down the internet. Because I know, all you sock wearing and Linux wielding Weirdos will get your shit running again the fastest.
I’m working on a Lemmy client and I occasionally browse main stream social media to check the robustness of my app vs theirs. But I find myself enjoying mainstream less and less as I settle more into Lemmy.
I stopped using Reddit when I got permabanned for speaking against fascism.
I switched to lemmy about two years ago and went almost cold turkey. There was one community on reddit that I returned to a couple of times in the first few weeks, but even that stopped as it just wasn’t worth it. I have been to reddit a few times since, but only when trying to solve a problem and reddit comes up as a search result, and only after trying other sources first.
Reddit killed third party apps, and so they killed my engagement with them. Why go back?
I only use Reddit when it comes up in a search result. Otherwise it is Lemmy all the way
I use facebook marketplace and youtube but that’s it when it comes to corpo social media
Is that really considered hardcore?
I follow some local news and i have a list of video content creators i download with a script but other then that its just the Lemmy verse for me.
Only Lemmy.
Im IP banned from Reddit though. Still wouldn’t ever go back.
I still browse reddit but I was banned a long while ago. Guess I thumbed up too many Luigi posts lol
I go here to post (just wish I could find similar threads/subreddit or whatever. I miss posting on niche subjects)
I only use lemmy now although I don’t know understand what is a local user.
I stopped using reddit when they wouldn’t allow 3rd parts apps, also stopped using twitter when Elon changed it x. I still use facebook for friends, family, coworkers and occasionally marketplace.
