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Just started using Lemmy. I’m getting used to it and like it for a lot of things but there’s literally no sports communities which I used Reddit for a lot so I don’t think I can completely stop using Reddit.

I still use reddit on Apollo without logging in, guess I’m not hardcore :P

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

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

I'm on lemmy. I'm an artist so I also have an account on Pixelfed.art because it has a portfolio view I can show people.

Otherwise I am a non-participant in social media.

I succeeded for a while but somehow jerboa crashes all the time during the admin's holidays

I haven't looked back to reddit since I created my account. It's better here

I'm fingerprint banned from reddit now. I worked tooth and nail making thousands of frivolous reports via browser after the API thing. If I'm not mistaken mods used 3rd party apps to help with moderation. I figured I'd make being king of shit mountain a little more of a headache since those tools were out too.

I'll peek in on reddit every once in a while. I clearly don't have an account there so the front page garbage is what shows up. It feels like the internet version of walking down a coast with a beached whale carcass rotting on it. Once majestic, the bloated carrion now serves as a feeding ground for vultures and bottom feeders. The smell is awful. The beach volleyball area is clearly full of bots who have no sense of smell. The beachgoers there for a day at the beach either don't realize or don't care that their beach is littered with poop all over in the sand.

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.

Yes. 🤷‍♂️

It's not even hard core. Escape that corporate screaming.

Lemmy is the only text-based social media I use, other than PieFed (which is practically the same, and fully compatible). If there was a PieFed client with a nice UI, I'd switch fully in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the only client seems to be Interstellar, which is functional but lacking (and ugly).

I do still use Instagram, but more so as a photo backup solution than active social media. PixFed or whatever it was called didn't work for me since nobody can guarantee that the server I chose will actively be maintained long term.

I am using Lemmy only. I may be doing something wrong, because can not access any other Instances. Lemmy World only... need more practice I reckon...

Fucking reactionaries almost everywhere on "mainstream" where one's words are being vetted so as not to displease the shits, which put me here now.

Lemme and tiktok

Me.

Hate Reddit. Always did. Lemmy's better.

Still on Reddit. I’d be here full time but the content is severely lacking.

I only use lemmy regularly.
I'll still check specific subreddits which don't have a lemmy equivalent, but not that often, and never signed in or with the official app.

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 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.

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.

Why would it matter?

There are people here who believe that North Korea and China are actually amazing places to live despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. We're talking people who, in one thread, discuss discrimination in the U.S. while espousing the virtues of fucking China on discrimination. To remind you, China is an ethnostate. For us to be like China, we would need to secure white dominance in the U.S. — because that is what China has done with the Han.

These people would cause a genocide or worse. And they're fucking all over Lemmy. I wouldn't limit myself to anything on Lemmy for anything other than Linux advice.

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I don't use Mastodon beyond what my blog posts automatically. And I rarely make new blog posts anyways. I don't really see the point of microblogging beyond getting keeping up with news from different organisations. But I don't have the energy to keep up anyways, so I don't need it.

In terms of keeping in touch with my friends and family I only use Signal.

I can't use Reddit because I got permabanned across all accounts a while back because I was criticizing a video of a drunk white guy making unwanted advances towards an Asian woman in a restaurant.

Also got banned for criticizing Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Also caught a ban for being too critical about Indians and their rape culture.

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