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Reddit started having ads and i noped out. Was really only using it for porn lol

I stopped using Reddit when I got permabanned for speaking against fascism.

I'm such a solipsist, I'm surprised reddit is still relevant to anyone. I certainly come across some posts when searching for tech or product questions, but that's it.

Although even outside of the fedi, I spend more and more of my time just looking at people's individual websites and blogs. I've got a basically bottomless RSS feed curated by this point, so I don't even need an aggregator for the scroll -- I've got my own.

I deleted my reddit account because spez took the reins in advance of their IPO. I've never looked back.

Added this to my hosts file 3 years ago when stormfront went full corporate sock puppets and censorship:

127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

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!

I do lurk Reddit occasionally (using old.reddit.com only) and silently mod a subreddit that I'm attached to, but I don't submit posts or make new comments there anymore.

I also lurk Hacker News, Mastodon, Bluesky and Tildes.

Lemmy is my main site where I post the most.

I'm only three (3) active (and hopefully semi/official) communities away from ditching r/ and moving completely to c/; for most of everything else I've found quite sufficient activity on Lemmy + Mastodon. Alas, since "representatives moving their community to lemmy" is not the kind of stuff you can enhance yourself unless you are an admin of those, I'm stuck on waiting.

reddit links from searches are the only times i land there.

Lemmy Mastodon Bluesky

These are my main social media platforms now.

I might hit a Reddit link here or there because occasionally the information I need is posted there (that I found from a web search). But I don't browse that site ever any more.

Deleted Twitter because of elon. Deleted Facebook after Cambridge Analytica. Never had Instagram (will never download a Meta app at this point).

Does leeching off of Reddit with redlib instances count as using it?

Lemmy only. Actually, I just can't stand the corpoverse, it's litterally painful for me to browse. The only exception so far is instagram because it's dopamine gold and you can discover a lot of things, but this is less and less true. And with voyager integrating pixelfed in upcoming updates... well i'll just migrate

account on lemmy, just lurking the start page once a day for reddit without an account

I use both because people in my home country use reddit and it is pretty useful. Those communities are non-existing in Lemmy.

I actively avoid reddit links for the last 2 years.

Reddit is only good for the occasional Google search.

reddit.com/r/%subreddit.rss

I pretty much just plugged my favorite subreddits into my rss readers of choice and never looked back (the same can be done with lemmy btw).

Edit: I believe this can also be done with 4chan, but I can no longer recall how it's done. If anybody knows please lmk.

I only use Lemmy unless Internet search results bring me to a reddit post for an answer to a question. I don't comment on reddit anymore or even browse it.

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 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.

Yes? But I don't think I'm hardcore, I started using Lemmy when I stopped using reddit.

I just deleted my Reddit account, it's no good to me since they banned my account for "Abusing the report button" and wouldn't unban it no matter how many appeals I sent in. Part of me thought, maybe they'd unban it some day, but... naw... better to just walk away

I hope it goes the way of YTMND and becomes a distant memory. Although with YTMND my memories are at least pleasant.

I just hope someday the "Niche Interest" sublemmies become more active

Fedivese only 2 years on (Lemmy + Mastodon) Left reddit when the whole API bullshit started.

Lemmy is the only social media i have.

And i guess discord but that's just for my weekly d&d group and nothing else

I only use Lemmy.

The main reason is that Redditt banned me for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a nazi.

I don't have an account on other social media.

Once in a while I do searches like "alternative to X site:reddit.com" for software, movie recommendations, etc. So I do use it, just don't participate. Mostly because it's designed to breed hate and distrust.

I only visit for my niche subs, and even then it's maybe once or twice a month at most. I just check the top posts for the month, and then leave. In and out. 20 minute adventure.

Reddit has some sort of permabanned me, so I cannot get even new accounts there. So you guys get to enjoy me here, yay!

They unfortunately still have the critical mass, and even though Lemmy is getting better on that front, there's just so much more stuff on Reddit.

I do check other media but I do not participate in them anymore, e.g. I browse reddit or https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ but I deleted my account months ago.

I don’t have any mainstream media accounts and I’m pretty happy with that choice.

Although honestly I feel like Lemmy is feeling a lot like second Reddit recently and I’m pretty sad about this. See: dozens and dozens of low effort moth memes on feed now.

I only use Lemmy. Not because I’m hardcore about the fediverse or anything, but because I wanted to start moving off all major social media. Now I rarely engage with any social media and I think it’s done wonders for my mental health.

Yeah, Lemmy and Mastodon only for me too.

I don't know how people can live without niche subs that simply don't exist on lemmy. I read them but I can't participate since reddit fingerprints me no matter what I do and instantly bans my new accounts.

I quit Reddit long ago. It was my go to for everything. I also don't have any social media at all. Only communicate with family through texts and calls.