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I had seven billion updoots or whatever on reddit. I haven't used it for 2 years.

Also, why is that "hardcore"? You might want to reevaluate your relationshio with social media and computing. If you can't disconnect from it that sounds unhealthy.

I think my Reddit account still exists, but I haven't logged in since 3rd party apps stopped working. It took me a bit to find Lemmy, and I'm still not on it was frequently as I was on Reddit.

I deleted my Twitter account when they announced they would be training grok on my tweets. I hadn't logged into it since Elmu mass-banned a bunch of journalists for retweeting the "Elon's Jet" account. I decided Mastodon was more likely to not get between me and the journalists I wanted to see microblogs from.

I'm not hardcore. I an still well-entrenched in the Google ecosystem (primarily YT). I still have a Facebook account, and occasionally login to un-tag myself. I use Amazon Pay / Paypal whenever I can, tho I at least stopped paying for Prime when they decided to start putting ads in Prime Video stuff.

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 left Reddit 2 or 3 years back and have only used Lemmy since.

I joined through Lemm.ee so recently had to move over to Lemmy.zip

I think this was a net positive for me overall. Lemmy has a lot less content which helped me break the “I’m slightly bored let me pull out my phone and scroll Reddit” addiction I didn’t even realize I had. Now I check Lemmy maybe once or twice a day, still see the big important events and the couple communities I care about.

I was never one for twitter, so I don’t bother with trying to find a replacement for that.

Overall the less social media I use the better I feel. I think future generations will look back on our constant use of social media and dopamine mining the same way we look back on how people used to smoke everywhere.

We know it’s bad for us, but we like the dopamine so everyone just does it everywhere, we give toddlers tablets so they can start dopamine mining as early as possible. I hope our descendants look back at this time with a sense of “holy shit they just let people smoke in the nurseries at the hospital?!”

Lemmy and Mastodon now for 4 years. It's the only social media I regular use. Ok there is a bluesky and nostr account but I visit them once in a month.

Lemmy only here

only Lemmy, but if I search for something I still go to reddit

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!

Just Lemmy.

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

I left Reddit at the start of the APIocalypse. Lemmy is the only social media I use unless you count Youtube which I watch through Newpipe and Smarttube. Tried Mastodon but its not for me.

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

Lemmy is just too shitty. It takes a lot of skill to be shittier than Reddit. I wish someone would bring back something like Digg v3. Nobody even remembers it, but it was fantastic. It encouraged civility without moderators. All I could find is 3 screenshots.

I used both for a while there... But ehn, haven't touched my Reddit account in 3 years.

Too many nazis, and besides, Reddit's main appeal (mentioned in the thread: Reddit has a more diverse demographic as compared to only nerds here on Lemmy) doesn't really call to me because I'm Lemmy's demographic to a T, a Linux-loving left-wing queer nerd.

I'm on Lemmy because Reddit devs are letting their AI auto-ban their more intelligent users. Isn't that similar to letting Telsa's auto-drive into an auto-accident?

This is it unless you count discord as social media,or twitch?

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

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

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

I haven't browsed Reddit since the creation of my Lemmy account (~2years ago); though I've wound up viewing a Reddit thread or two via a google search on rare occasion. Beyond those two, the only other 'social media' I've used in at least a decade is Youtube.

I rock out with my Lemmy out🤘

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

I only have lemmy and mastodon. I kept my reddit account for about a year and had to delete my post and reply history three times before it finally disappeared. I then promptly deleted my account. Deleted MySpace around 2010 for fb, fb around 2015 when I went to reddit, then reddit after threatening public ipo.

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 use Lemmy. Fuck Reddit. And this is from someone who spent over a decade using Reddit religiously. I dropped them during the whole API scandal. I had been growing more and now dissatisfied with Reddit and that was the last straw.

The only mainstream social media program I use is Facebook, and I don't really use it anymore. I only keep my profile because I've met people from all over the world who I stay in touch with through Facebook. Plus all my childhood friends and family members are there. But Facebook (and Meta as a whole) is garbage and I have a bunch of tools to prevent them from feeding me garbage content and recording my data while I'm trying to keep up with my friends and family there.

I have a Bluesky account, which I don't know what to do with. Twitter always felt like social media for celebrities; there wasn't much going on there for us normal people. I created a Bluesky account just to get away from Twitter, but I don't have much to post and none of it gets attention from anyone, so I just feel like I'm talking to myself. I don't have anyone really interesting to follow there either.

I also use Discord to stay in touch with my closest friends, on a personal server I built. That's pretty much it. I don't trust any other social media programs. So Lemmy is my main source of news and content.

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.

Add me to the “hardcore” list. There’s just no need for that evil crap. I’m fine just on Lemmy, it keeps the consumption under control.