I have fully transitioned to using Lemmy and Mastodon right when third party apps weren’t allowed on Spez’s place anymore, so I don’t know how it is over there anymore.
What do you use? Are you still switching between the two, essentially dualbooting?
What other social media do you use? How do you feel about Fediverse social media platforms in general?
(I’m sorry if I’m the 100th person to ask this on here…)
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I don’t really have a main social media right now, I use lemmy masto and yt tho.
Yep.
Had a Facebook account I completely ignored (set it up for my first girlfriend and we exclusively used Yahoo Messenger) then turned into a music dump, then deleted.
Had an Instagram account for about 3 months - surprisingly decent source of grotesque/morbid art!
Mainlined Reddit for a good couple of years, mostly during the Pandemic.
Switched to Lemmy a couple of months after deleting my Reddit account when shit went down, and it’s all I’ve been using and plan on using. Unless one counts news aggregators as social platforms.
I see it the exact same way!
The way that the fediverse is split up like this, with many instance working with different rulesets really does make it feel like some neighbourhood people coming together to chat.
I especially like the way how, why you chose an instance, you can either stay within the bounds of your own local group, or interact with all the people by switching over to the “subscribed” tab (at least this is the case here on blahaj zone).
Yes, that’s my favourite aspect about it, the interactivity between the various instances and how distinctly unique each instance seems to have become in terms of ethos. It’s wonderful to see so many different ‘tribes’ and be able to interact with all of them!
I completely switched to Mastodon and here, I’d rather not use platforms that are locked down by corporations and will inevitably enshittify without leaving me a simple way to migrate
I don’t have a “main social media app”. I use Lemmy and Mastodon on mobile; Reddit and Facebook only on desktop.
Nothing has replaced what Reddit was. I use Lemmy for the nostalgic feeling but it does not compare.
I followed news, politics and science, mostly. The community on Reddit used every tool available to create credibility. Then profiteering tore it asunder.
The only other social media app I ever use is Facebook. But it’s purely for connections to friends, family and local hobby groups.
Lemmy and Mastodon as well for me. With a little bit of discord and matrix for my projects’ realtime chat
My only use for Reddit now is reading r/hfy stories, though I’m doing that through a local Redlib instance, hoping that those glitter sniffers don’t lock website content behind accounts like almost every other social medium does (but we all know that if something can get worse to make more money, it WILL get worse to make more money).
It’s very sad to see general social media platforms go that route. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are unusable without an account.
It is for me, I use an account on Lemmy.ml for general browsing (and correcting misconceptions about Marxism, if I’m being honest), and a Hexbear.net account I pretty much only browse locally if I just want to relax and not have to worry about getting into an argument.
Bluesky at this point. It has most of the people I used to follow on twitter already.
no, not really. i kinda quit social media in the sense that i no longer use reddit, instagram, twitter or snap. they were all just too addicting. i log into lemmy once in a while, to see what’s new, since there are some nice niche linux related communities, but apart from that i’m only on youtube (when i’m eating) or on discord (few small-ish servers). i don’t really care much for news or polictics, and if i really need to know what’s going on, i check the front page of wikipedia or ask my friends. i’m still struggling with using my phone more that i’d like, but this week i took a break from discord and youtube, with mixed results so far (see: i’m on lemmy), but overall it’s been really freeing to not be on them and have a bunch more free time.
I went full Lemmy for a while but have to admit I’m reading reddit again, but without their dumb app. Just the web browser.
Looking through a few subreddits, see what’s new for five minutes. I don’t post anymore, don’t have an account.
I don’t post anymore, don’t have an account.
Yap, I nuked it too
Lemmy and youtube are my mains. Which is used more really depends on my mood and how active is lemmy that day.
Lemmy is my main but I still use Reddit sometimes for more niche subreddits.
