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?

  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    18 hours ago

    I still use reddit.

    Lemmy is still missing a few things:

    • Sports discussion. There’s nothing quite like the absurdity of some of the sports communities that really brightens my day, from really deep analytical insights to the dumbest meme jokes in existence.
    • City-specific local discussion. I still spend time on my city’s subreddit, which helps keep me tuned in on local happenings.
    • Non-tech related career discussion. My field (law) has several subreddits useful for talking shop, growing careers, making fun of shitty lawyers, etc. That doesn’t really exist here.
    • Hobby discussion. I’m trying my best to participate in fitness and weight lifting related subreddits but there just isn’t a critical mass of commenters to get a discussion really going. Plenty of my other hobbies and interests are missing here, too.

    I’ve deleted the reddit alts I used to use for technology related topics, parenting/relationship topics, political discussion, and stupid general purpose humor or memes, as Lemmy has enough of that I don’t need Reddit for those topics. But for the ones I’ve listed above, I’m still using desktop “old” Reddit.

    I’m also still on Instagram, but only follow people I know personally. It’s the easiest way to keep up with my acquaintances’ lives: who’s marrying who, who’s having kids, where people have moved, etc.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      same here niche topics:

      city related topics: not controlled by tankines or conservatives -certain conditions, people share thier experience and treatment regiment that i have as well. -whatisthing, or variations dont have that big of a community here. -also job related, bio,biotech i often engage in my experience that prospect of jobs and the ‘gatekeeping’ in these fields.

      -a card game not found on here. things like jury duty, reddit and other forums have large discussion groups there, just dont want to hear" you should be grateful to do JD,blabla as a duty to democracy" type of responses though. as i have very frequent summons, like every single year.

      -a youtube channel i like to talk about that turned shitheeled.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 hours ago

      This is sadly it. If it gets niche enough, there’s no way around Reddit.

      I completely replaced Reddit with Lemmy for political topics, for wasting time, for doom scrolling and so on. But when I need information about a niche topic (e.g. how to overclock the 15yo netbook I recently got), there’s just no way around Reddit.

      That’s the difference between 50k monthly active users and 360mio weekly active users. There are dozens of subreddits that have more active users than all of Lemmy combined…

      Sadly, the big exodus is still pending.

      Or luckily, considering how badly Lemmy instances scale. If a few million users were to migrate over to Lemmy, probably the whole system would just collapse.