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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 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.

I am hardcore lemmy user

Haven't been to reddit since I joined here.

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.

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

Lemmy only.

It's not normal here? I'm only Lemmy+mastodon (with a bsky bridge)

unfortunately reddit still has way more stuff on it. so i read reddit. that said, I do not contribute to reddit because there is just no fucking point.

Team Lemmy 100 %.

If the Japan life/visa/legal/finance subreddits would fully move over, I could finally be rid of reddit. Sadly, they have not. Some subs exist, but it's worthless without the institutional knowledge that some of the people have; Japanese legalese be tough.

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

Only Lemmy and Mastodon and that's too much !

Though i have test accounts with with GotoSocial and Piefed.

I deleted my Reddit account and switched to Lemmy after the API stuff. I kinda regret deleting my account because it wasn’t until after that I learned about the apps that would scrub your comment history, but Reddit has a tendency to roll those back anyway.

I still sometimes end up on a Reddit thread when searching for some technical issue, but I generally try to browse other forums for solutions first if possible.

ETA: all other social media stuff like Instagram and Facebook I deleted around the time of Trump’s first election. Just got sick of the constant stream of bullshit.

Well, I'm permanently banned from Reddit, so....here I am!

Avoiding the shit from enshittification isn't hardcore, it's just the normal adult thing to do.

I never post or browse Reddit anymore, but I'll still look at Reddit search results. There's just too much good information on there that you just can't find elsewhere.

I completely quit reddit in protest after using it for over ten years when it threatened to replace the moderators of a small subreddit I participated in after that subreddit shut down during the API protests. I don't actually care about the API myself (I never used anything other than old reddit) but I thought that reddit had no moral (as opposed to merely legal) right to take over something the mods had built and it merely hosted.

Lemmy is worse, but at least I'm following my principles.

Yes I uninstalled everything except Lemmy and it feels like 2007 again

I'm not hardcore anything but I quit using Reddit and have not looked back. I also don't use any other social, even tough I own other accounts I have not logged into for many years.

Why I don't see myself hardcore? Because there is no hate, or anger and no desire to preach anyone to switch either. I respect people's choice. I disagreed with a few of reddit decisions & their policy change back then and took my decision accordingly. I posted a goodbye note explaining why I left reddit and switched to Lemmy. The same with X, Facebook, or whatever: when I realized I could not trust those services, I told people around me and moved away.

I literally only use Lemmy, I'm not even all that interested in Mastodon XD

I don't have a reddit account and only comment on lemmy. Although I do check the reddit frontpage every so often the actual communities I interact with are here.

Other than that, I have a mastodon account which I'm quite active on and a letterboxd too. Last thing would be linkedin but I don't post there and maybe login to it once a quarter.

Instagram has its grip on me sadly. Tho after the localhost fiasco I switched over to browser Instagram

Until Lemmy can offer me the active specialized subs I use reddit for, it's pretty hard to drop it completely.

not quite

I nearly exclusively use Lemmy over Reddit, mastadon over xitter and Facebook, pixelfed over Instagram, ("nearly" because I still have the accounts, in case someone needs to contact me there). Although Lemmy is the only one I use frequently.

I still use YouTube and tiktok instead of peertube and loops though. They're just not big enough to host the content I'm interested in.

Lemmy is the only platform I participate on. I do occasionally check some niche subs on Reddit for hobbies and games I follow for news/suggestions/ideas/etc., but no idle browsing and no contributing, not even through votes.

I also sometimes pop onto Reddit just to manually edit and delete more of my comment history, because the automated tools are apparently only capable of seeing the past year. Once I finally get through everything, I can delete my account, but it's a slow process with years worth of content to remove going back to 2010.

I wouldn't call it 'hardcore' not to use crap like that. I've never used Reddit, Twitter instagram or any of that (with one brief exception). Only the Fediverse. Made my mastodon account in 2018 and that's all I used until I made this Lemmy account last year.

The exception was: back about 15 years or so ago, some people talked me into making a facebook account because they had a group on there. I reluctantly made the account and read their posts for a while but it was just stupid meaningless tripe, so I never posted anything on there and after a while I deleted the account. During that time it was apparently hijacked because I logged on and someone had made a completely weird profile on it. Don't know how they did it but I changed the password and removed the stuff which seemed to work, that's when I submitted the deletion request to FB though who knows what happened to it after that.

edit: I should add that I do use Youtube (mainly via Freetube but not always) and I do read reddit posts when I search for things and it comes up as a relevant result.

I haven't used reddit since they removed the free API that FOSS apps were using. Lemmy is the only "reddit like" that I've used since. As for other social media, I left Facebook over 10 years ago, never used twitter, or anything newer that isn't FOSS and federated. I've used mastodon since 2017. So I guess that makes me hardcore?

I am going to make a more concerted effort to use Lemmy more than Reddit moving forward. I just wish it had more info over here. I think from now on if I cannot find the info that I seek on Lemmy, I will find some sources on Reddit and then maybe pay it forward via sharing my findings on Lemmy. That's at least what I'm going to try and do for a while and see if I can help make a difference.

Mostly Lemmy here. I use it for my doomscrolling and distraction, and for that it's imho much better than Reddit, since the content is much less fake (I hate all that AITA creative writing and similar crap) and the politics are better.

I do sometimes use Reddit for when I actually have questions about some deeper topic. Lemmy sadly doesn't have the manpower and the decades of content to help me when I need to know how to overclock a specific 15 yo netbook or when I need help with some issue in a game or something. For that, there's sadly hardly a way around Reddit. Some things can be (badly) covered by Stack Exchange, some things I can maybe find on DuckDuckGo between heaps of AI slop, or I could let ChatGPT lie to me by hallucinating a wrong answer. But in many cases there is sadly no way around Reddit.

Me, but that's because Reddit permabanned me on the post- inauguration bloodbath.

In some ways I like Lemmy a lot better for things like politics. It doesn't have all the puns, trolls, Russian Propaganda Farmers, bots, novelty accounts, etc., so while they are fewer comments, they tend to be more substantial. I can also mostly say what I think without getting suspended.

On the other hand, I miss some of the personal forums, which are far more active on Reddit. I'd like the guitar forums to be more active, but they barely have any posts. Most have weeks or even months between posts, while Reddits have a constant flow, every minute. I keep saying that I'm going to start posting content as often as possible, but I haven't yet. Maybe I'll start this week.

I don't think it's particularly hardcore myself, I've just been moving away from platforms as they've been enshittifying. I was on reddit over ten years but left over the API thing and haven't been back. I stopped using Facebook a few years ago and haven't missed it at all. I stopped using twitter when musk bought it, tried using mastodon for a bit but it was kinda barren so I'm on bluesky now. I still check in on mastodon occasionally. I'll move on from these platforms too if they turn to shit. It's easy to get caught in a kinda sunk cost thing with platforms, but really it doesn't matter how long you've been there, how many Facebook friends you have, how much karma, whatever - if it turns to shit it's time to move on, and best go early to avoid the rush!

Like many who responded, I don't think it's hardcore to not be on Reddit. I was for a long time, then my local forum in Denver was crushed by Reddit admins overreacting to the API rebellion, then the hobby forums started being taken over by AI, and finally the tone on other subs became absolutely toxic, with no variant of the prevailing opinion allowed. Hello, /r/Summit!

The only thing missing from Lemmy is depth, and that will fill in automatically as more people join. For a change, I am delighted to be on a platform that isn't beholden to a small group that makes all the decisions regardless of user input. In fact, I started out on KBin until that flaked out massively (back to normal, now) and was excited that I could just switch to Lemmy and see the exact same things.

Now I am on piefed because I like Python and would like to contribute. But I love all the people at Lemmy <3.

Been feeling that a lot lately. As of the past couple days I've been exclusively on Lemmy/PieFed

The only mainstream platform that I'm still active on would be Discord, but that's only because there's no viable alternative yet.

Yes. I don't even think of it as hardcore really, just that lemmy is good enough for my use case. If I don't find something I want in the fediverse, I'll create/post it myself.

*I'll also read a relevant thread on reddit, but I use the libredirect plugin so I always view through a front end (that I also connect to through a vpn).

**I will also say that there are some article posts that I don't think I'd be able to find easily with msm, mostly anything to do with Palestine.

I’m banned from Reddit so I’m here and this is my only social media left

I also use Reddit. My local sub can’t be replicated here, unfortunately, and it’s a very valuable resource to know what’s going on in the local community.