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?

  • Rufus Q. Bodine III@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    There is plenty to engage with here. I don’t miss Reddit, other than a couple of local groups that have no fedi equivalents, yet. But not enough to go back.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    I still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.

    I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it’s pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    2 hours ago

    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:

    • Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.

    • Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.

    • 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.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    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.

  • Ponygirl42@lemmy.wtf
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    3 hours ago

    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.

  • selkiesidhe@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    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)

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    4 hours ago

    I only use Reddit when it comes up in a search result. Otherwise it is Lemmy all the way

  • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 hours ago

    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.

  • GojuRyu@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    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.