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.
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.
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.
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.
reddit links from searches are the only times i land there.
I only use lemmy. I’ll need an alternative for Discord soon.
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.
On the two subs I frequented:
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/r/thelastairbender is just cultish and shallow now. I abandoned it. But it’s painful for me, as this is like the only sane place left the fandom has any critical mass. /c/thelastairbender is nice, but very quiet.
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/r/localllama Has… lost its intelligence? Like no one seems to experiment or talk technically anymore, good talk seems to be on github, or shattered across Discords, while the ‘critical mass’ is in the AI Bro black hole of Twitter and Linkedin. I read it, but never post anymore. localllama here is better, but smaller and downvoted to hell.
Also, I’ve been shadowbanned on like 4 accounts in 3 different IPs/machines, no explanation, no recourse. I never post anything political or even remotely provocative (unless links to Lemmy count) and only visit those two subs, so… Yeah, kinda sick of that.
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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
