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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.

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.

I logged in a few times after creating my account here, but now I don't even bother.

It was fun, it got worse, and now it's full on garbage.

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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 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.

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'm that hardcore. Partly because I'm also a habitual Tor user, and post-IPO Reddit seems to dislike that.

Edit: Although I still will browse old Reddit as a guest sometimes, because not everything exists on Lemmy yet. I dread the day they pull the plug on the old frontend.

Not using mainstream social media isn't "hard core" - it is being sensible and actually giving a shit.

I left Twitter around 2008 (or whenever they stopped allowing posts through SMS), left Facebook proper a few years later (with the exception of chat, as it's the only way I talk with certain people.) I left Reddit during the API debacle. I used to post my art on Instagram, but ever since the turn toward "influencers" took over, I've stopped posting there, too. I never got into TikTok or whatever else might be out there today.

I made a Bluesky account just before it took off in popularity last year, but I don't use it except to look for pictures after protests. I made a Mastodon account, but have yet to post at all.

So yeah, Lemmy's the one and only social media I post/comment to right now. Social media is exhausting, but Lemmy doesn't blast ads at me, doesn't bug me when I don't post after a while, and its semi-anonymous nature means it's easier to let things go when people disagree. Everything else is too stressful to deal with, especially after a long work day when all I really want to do is catch up with the news.

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...

Post on reddit, never. Still updates faster than lemmy, tho.

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 primarily use lemmy these days, but still have to use a few other things.

I still browse reddit for this like episode discussion threads for amine and other tv. lemmy will have maybe 5 responses in the threads for the 3 biggest shows of a season. it's just not there yet.

I'm also a videographer, in our modern age that means i NEED to be on Instagram, YouTube, and tiktok because those are the platforms everyone wants me to make things for. can't know how to make things for a platform I don't use, sadly. especially since "just make something good" doesn't work on any of them. in fact making something that looks good is often more of a hinderence these days and it kills me.

i hate short form video. i hate every mainstream social media platform. i just want to make pretty videos and not have to deal with tiktok trends. I learned 10 ways to attach a lav mic secure and tidy in school. I must now hold the lav mic in my fingers because that's what's trendy and following the trends is the ONE thing that DEFINITELY works.

I hate what has come of my profession. at this point I'm just ready for the ai to take my job so i can blow my head off in peace.

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 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

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

Probably about 99% Lemmy but occasionally there just isn’t a community in the Fediverse or doesn’t have the traffic that Reddit does. But I avoid Reddit as much as possible. Its devolved into an AI driven echo chamber.

Created this account two years ago in the big fuck u/spez boom, forgot about it for two years, and started transition to fedi a few months ago, don’t use Reddit, sometimes peek onto twitter (via nitter) to piss myself off

I only use Lemmy and deleted my reddit account. I didn't bother with Mastadon or BlueSky. Then again I didn't bother with Facebook or Twatter either. If it's important it does bubble up to Lemmy with less bots and brigading going on so that's a plus. I do have a few YouTube channels I watch that are either about fixing stuff or oddball humor. From my own personal observation, there is a noticable difference between social media addict behavior and people who don't make it their entire existence.

I'm banned from Reddit and since the appeal process is bullshit, I didn't bother to appeal.

Me.

Hate Reddit. Always did. Lemmy's better.

I've replaced all my aimless Reddit scrolling with Lemmy. I'm not so purist I refuse to go there though - there's still a lot of good info organized there, and it's still decent for searches.

I've replaced Twitter too. Ironically Facebook is the one that sticks around, despite being probably the most user-hostile. That one's built around people I know IRL and it's not so easy to drop in a replacement. Even though it's not very good for that or any purpose.

Lemmy only since the reddit purge

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.

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

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

I use both several times a day. Reddit has more content. But the fediverse (and decentralization of communication) is important to me so I created my own instance. I'm hoping more people follow.

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