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I haven't browsed Reddit since the creation of my Lemmy account (~2years ago); though I've wound up viewing a Reddit thread or two via a google search on rare occasion. Beyond those two, the only other 'social media' I've used in at least a decade is Youtube.

I didn't leave Reddit, Reddit disabled the app I used to access it for over 10 years when they disabled API access. Figured they didn't want or need my contributions anymore.

I wouldn't consider myself hardcore for it, but yeah I only use Lemmy. Nothing else lol

Used to use reddit until they pulled their bullshit with 3rd party apps.

Edit: another answer made me reconsider what it means to "use" reddit, so yeah if I'm searching for information on Google or something and there's an answer on Reddit I'll read it, but I don't log in or communicate on there at all.

I only use Lemmy since the reddit API Fuck up.

Sometimes, if I am looking for information, I visit reddit, but I treat it like any other random forum I look up something, take the info and fuck off again.

I use YouTube, if you wanna count that. I don't comment there and use Newpipe or PipePipe, so only consuming and no participation there too.

I haven't used any other social media, like Facebook or Instagram, so nothing hardcore for me in just continuing not to do so.

I’m 100% fediverse

No more stockholder / CEO / billionaire / fascist shit for me

For daily browsing, pure Lemmy.

Researching a problem or future purchase, I'm still putting site:reddit.com in the search bar. I love you Lemmy, but you're just not there yet.

Til that I'm 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.

Reddit stopped being mainstream for me since the API bullshit, so... hardcore I am, guess I

Haven't looked at reddit since the first exodus. Feels good.

I had seven billion updoots or whatever on reddit. I haven't used it for 2 years.

Also, why is that "hardcore"? You might want to reevaluate your relationshio with social media and computing. If you can't disconnect from it that sounds unhealthy.

Is this considered "hardcore"? After the mobile apps bit the dust I left and never looked back. I don't like meta stuff because of privacy concerns. Fediverse only for me

I have not used reddit since the API fuckery.

Add me to the “hardcore” list. There’s just no need for that evil crap. I’m fine just on Lemmy, it keeps the consumption under control.

When I'm researching something and a reddit link pops up in search results, I'll check it. But I have abandoned my account and won't be logging back in. Aside from that, I try to be as hardcore as possible.

the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)

I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.

Only things I'll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I'll gladly donate)

Reddit killed third party apps, and so they killed my engagement with them. Why go back?

Lemmy + Hackernews + Arstechnica

What more is there to know?

I wouldn't consider exclusively using Lemmy for social media "hardcore". Let's be real, people don't use social media because the content is important. I use Lemmy when I need a break and such, see some memes, read an interesting article someone posted. And Reddit sometimes turns up when I search for opinions on products, solutions for maintaining my home, stuff like that. Usually just useful, old posts. I keep in contact with people I actually know through private chats, mostly Signal. What else do you need?

I don't use reddit aside from reading search results. I never post and never explicitly seek it out.

I deleted Twitter years ago. I never used Facebook or Instagram or tiktok. That shit's bad for you.

It's annoying that some places will make announcements only on shitty platforms. None of my friends are this "hardcore" , so sometimes I find out about stuff like a concert or protest or whatever because one of them sees it on Instagram

That's me! I cut Reddit it when they turned off RIF, and never looked back. I also add -reddit to searches so I don't give them any traffic

I am one that only uses Lemmy

Lemmy is the only social media platform where I have an account. No Facebook, no Reddit, no LinkedIn, etc. From time to time I do read a post on Reddit, when it comes up in search results. When you have an obscure gaming or Linux issue, Reddit can (unfortunately) still be a treasure trove.

Occasionally I'll hit up a reddit result if I'm doing a search looking for an answer to a specific question. But I never browse it since the 3rd party apps stopped working.

Reddit backstabbing the 3rd party app developers was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Found my way here during that shitstorm. Full deletion of my Reddit accound, haven't looked back. The quality of Lemmy has left me no desire to relapse.

I left Reddit 2 or 3 years back and have only used Lemmy since.

I joined through Lemm.ee so recently had to move over to Lemmy.zip

I think this was a net positive for me overall. Lemmy has a lot less content which helped me break the “I’m slightly bored let me pull out my phone and scroll Reddit” addiction I didn’t even realize I had. Now I check Lemmy maybe once or twice a day, still see the big important events and the couple communities I care about.

I was never one for twitter, so I don’t bother with trying to find a replacement for that.

Overall the less social media I use the better I feel. I think future generations will look back on our constant use of social media and dopamine mining the same way we look back on how people used to smoke everywhere.

We know it’s bad for us, but we like the dopamine so everyone just does it everywhere, we give toddlers tablets so they can start dopamine mining as early as possible. I hope our descendants look back at this time with a sense of “holy shit they just let people smoke in the nurseries at the hospital?!”

No Reddit for me. Had a 10+ year old account there. Disabling 3rd party apps was a clear sign that the platform was no longer a good place to be.

Lemmy only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.

Lemmy is my main social media. I don't use anything else. Occasionally, I still get reddit in my search results though.

Oh, I also use Discord.

I only visit Reddit is search results take me there for a specific reason. Otherwise, I'm hardcore as fuck

Before the Reddit Exodus I only used Reddit and YouTube. Social media is a plague. Once I left Reddit I never looked back and now use Lemmy exclusively. I don't really see it as "hardcore", it's just me avoiding the worst and most stressful facet of modern society. I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not using any other social media.

I gave up on everything except Reddit in 2017 and gave up on Reddit with the api stuff going on.

So I guess I am that "hardcore".

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.

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.

10+ years of Reddit and switched here a year ago. Lemmy only.

I haven’t been back since the killing of third party apps. I had no interest in using Reddit any other way. I haven’t been back and I won’t go back. The Fediverse is better in every conceivable way.

Only Lemmy.

Having come from reddit and already boycotting Facebook/Meta I don't feel hardcore using only Lemmy

It meets nearly all of my needs, and if the userbase picks up it will certainly eventually fill those needs as well

If anything I'm surprised by the constant Reddit comparisons, because this has never felt like Reddit to me.

It feels like a 90s forum. Small, focused on a handful of topics, you always argue with the same five guys about the same five things... It's not a Reddit replacement at all. Which is why I'm here, I don't contribute to Reddit and never have.

Personally I use reddit a lot more than lemmy. My interests aren't well represented here on lemmy. Still come here sometimes though.

Hardcore? Reddit abd Twittter are full of bots and garbage, how does avoiding that make anyone hardcore? I think "more well informed" is the phrase you are looking for.

Me. I got banned for saying I wished MTG would trip and swallow her own head- apparently this was inciting violence. I appealed twice, then gave up. Also killing off Apollo pretty much soured me, and then everything went total bot farm bullshit. So, lemmy for me from now on!