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 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.
That’s where I’m at. Reddit was the only social media I was using, now it’s just Lemmy. I don’t consider it “hardcore” or some kind of bragging right, I’m just happier without it.
I only use lemmy. I’ll need an alternative for Discord soon.
I bailed on Reddit and uninstalled after they made “Luigi” into hate speech or inciting violence. First off Luigi Mangione is a fucking Saint. Second, fuck Reddit. Lemmy all the way!
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.
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.
Permabanned from reddit and don’t feel like going through the hassle of bypassing it. I still browse every now and then for niche content that just doesn’t exist on Lemmy but otherwise I’m on here exclusively.
Trump’s election is what did it for me. That and Reddit’s user experience had become so watered down with slop and bad content presentation in general. I’ve unsubscribed from Amazon, no Paypal, deleted Facebook, stopped using Gmail mostly (still working on that), deleted Instagram, stopped watching CNN, stopped allowing tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible. If your site tracks, I’m using another unless it is reasonable for the application.
Since then, on my phone, I use FOSS browser, NextDNS, Eternity for Lemmy, Pixelfed and Mastodon. For all my searching, I started using Swisscows, but now I am searching with SearxNG. Also, I am trying Proton, Tutanota, and kollabnow for email. Got Arch Linux on laptop because Microsoft tracking and snooping is so far out of control it should be illegal 50 different ways.
Fuck those techbros. This is now our civic duty.
Added this to my hosts file 3 years ago when stormfront went full corporate sock puppets and censorship:
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
I stopped using Reddit when I switched to Lemmy.
Lemmy is the only text-based social media I use, other than PieFed (which is practically the same, and fully compatible). If there was a PieFed client with a nice UI, I’d switch fully in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the only client seems to be Interstellar, which is functional but lacking (and ugly).
I do still use Instagram, but more so as a photo backup solution than active social media. PixFed or whatever it was called didn’t work for me since nobody can guarantee that the server I chose will actively be maintained long term.
reddit links from searches are the only times i land there.
Fucking reactionaries almost everywhere on “mainstream” where one’s words are being vetted so as not to displease the shits, which put me here now.
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.
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.
