Ask Lemmy

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.

I used to use purely Reddit. I stopped after the API nonsense. Now I'm purely on lemmy. I have no interest in any of the others.

I use Discord and Lemmy, no Reddit outside of reading threads on how to do something in a game

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!

I only use lemmy. I'll need an alternative for Discord soon.

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.

Is that considered hardcore? I know plenty of people without any social media, but all of them are >40yo, we learned to socialize before gafam

This is the only "social media" I use, alsthough its really more like a message board than modern social media.

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I don't use any mainstream social media, but I don't see how that is hardcore? I simply socialize in real life when I need it. And I feel like people mainly really use social media to entertain themselves.

I only post or reply on Lemmy.

I don't have a facebook, instagram, snapchat, or twitter account.

I deleted my two reddit accounts after RIF stopped working.

I do have accounts on a couple of car forums so I can ask questions about fixing my car, if that counts.

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.

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.

I was more or less exclusively lemmy for a good year or so, up until several months ago.

I would've logged into reddit maybe 3 or 4 times in the last year.

Sadly, I have to admit that browsing reddit with redlib or something is better than lemmy.

Lemmys main virtue is that its not reddit.

There's less content here, and it really is an echo chamber.

I switched to Lemmy after Reddit killed bacon reader. Never looked back. joined world and discovered defederation drama. Joined lemm.ee. now I'm on .zip. I don't want my instance dictating what I see. Even if it is the trifecta.

I use Mastodon also. I occasionally watch YouTube, but I don't post, and I definitely don't engage in the comments section.

Have not used Facebook in a decade. Not interested in tiktok or shorts. Occasionally pushed to imgur for the memes.

I never used social media that much and I can't be bothered to hang around on Reddit in addition to Lemmy.

Im "hardcore" as you describe it, dont care about instagram facebook twatter and all that shit. Lemmy is the one little corner i inhabit and i am fine with that. Also i did have a reddit account and, recently decided to log in again for shits and giggles and most of the subs i frequented have been decimated, and are shells of their former selves. I think i made the right choice getting the hell out of there.

Left Reddit almost a year ago and haven’t looked back.

Lemmy only here

Lemmy and RSS feed is all I use. I look at things my wife and 2 others friends will send me on instagram, but I never just scroll through it

What's wrong with limiting social media to Lemmy? I like it here.

I got banned from Reddit for calling an Anti-vaxxer a waste of oxygen :3

I don't consider not using it "hardcore", it's just not there any more. Reddit isn't the place it used to be when I joined, so I don't have the option of using Reddit as I knew it. I'll occasionally look there for some niche subjects that aren't represented here but I'm almost always disappointed, it's rarely quality discussion these days.

I don't consider myself hardcore, but I haven't posted to Reddit since the API thing, I read stuff there because there's lots of content, but I strongly dislike the official app so I refuse to use it, which means posting would be a hassle.

I stopped using Reddit when I switched to Lemmy.

Reddit sucks. I'm here only.

haven't used reddit once since Spez's mod-melting-bullshit. don't anticipate ever going back. bluesky + lemmy is more than enough distraction for me.

Lemmy and YouTube. That's it. Everything else gives me too much anxiety. At work, if I have to reference something from social media, I ask other people to look it up for me and send me the link.

Reddit still comes up when I'm searching for info/insight on specific topics, but for scrolling and commenting it's Lemmy all day er'yday.

I am hardcore lemmy user

Im permanent banned from reddit. So yes. I am only here now.

In a way, Reddit is helping me move to Lemmy permanently by not letting me post.

I’m a Reddit blackout leaver, never going back. Ever.

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.

I am Canadian. I quit Reddit and joined Lemmy several months ago. Not because of any issues with Reddit but because of all that american trump 51st state crap.

Gave up on Reddit after the shit show of 2022. Never looked back.

I am ip banned from reddit for making 'threats' only check reddit as a news aggregate because it's a little quicker

Reddit for browsing hobby-related stuff, Lemmy if I want to get mad at Israel, seeing as that's every comment section and every single post.

lemmy exclusively for me! ive been here since i got kicked off of the boost app lol

Lemmy only. I quit Reddit when the third party apps fell.

I do miss some of the niche hobby subreddits, but fuck Spez. If I need to find some info, I can access it via search engines.

Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with Lemmy, people are generally much nicer and there's more than enough content. Reddit was so overbloated that this smaller universe is quite enough for me.

I check Reddit like 5-10 minutes a week max and usually only if i land there via searches and just do a quick gloss over anything ive potentially missed. But compare that to the hours a week in habitually using lemmy (for better and/or worse i guess haha)