Is anyone here so hardcore that they don’t even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?
I wouldn’t consider myself hardcore for it, but yeah I only use Lemmy. Nothing else lol
Used to use reddit until they pulled their bullshit with 3rd party apps.
Edit: another answer made me reconsider what it means to “use” reddit, so yeah if I’m searching for information on Google or something and there’s an answer on Reddit I’ll read it, but I don’t log in or communicate on there at all.
How has Lemmy been for you? How do you resist the call of Reddit on a Dark and stormy night?
I honestly don’t consider the sea of noise over there “social” media. So I never even think to go over to it. Like others, if an answer to a question happens to be on Reddit, I’ll read that while signed out.
I browse bluesky, news.ycombinator.com, or try and read a book 😅
If you look a bit closer you’ll see so much AI slop on reddit these days that it’s hard to use. It boggles my noggle that the most obvious AI generated engagement bait gets posted on places like AITA including the classic Chad Jippity dashes and people engage with it.
Chatgpt, pretend you’re an abused woman. Your husband has cut you open and is currently wearing your intestines as a necklace but you’re not sure if you’re overreacting so you ask online. Put all the reddit karma in a bag once you’re done.
Fuck that shit.
Lemmy obviously is “smaller” so there isn’t as much breadth of content, but I like it. I just don’t like that the smaller community makes me feel like I’m more likely to be “recognized” over time, I prefer to be “just another voice.”
How I resist reddit is easy: fuck spez.
Get permabanned for saying nazis should die lol
Honestly I am still struggling to avoid it, I browse a lot still, but they are no longer getting my content for free because I literally cannot.
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.
Dito, this is the way.
My exact response. Thank you
Likewise, switched to Lemmy, never looked back.
I only use reddit now when it shows up in search engine results.
For some reason I don’t count youtube as social media - If I went to reddit and read comments without voting that would count, but youtube is just a video delivery platform (and I don’t read the comments). Not sure if that’s a real distinction I can make
Reddit isn’t social media, YouTube isn’t social media. People started branding anything with a comment thread as social media and it’s nonsensical. Criteria for social media: 1. Must allow following any user 2. Users must not be anonymous 3. Must be able to interact with, chat, send messages to, etc. any user. 4. All of the above must be the main point of the site.
Reddit is a forum of forums. The point is aggregated news feed for different forums. User to user social interaction is not the main point, and the user to user interaction that occurs is forum interaction, which existed decades before social media.
YouTube is a video sharing site. It has comment sections just like any news site.
If YouTube is social media then literally any news site is social media. If Reddit is social media then every forum on the planet is social media. Neither of those things make sense, therefore they’re not social media.
Sorry I just absolutely hate that everyone refers to anything with a comment section as social media now. It completely devalues the word and makes it meaningless.
Who set those rules? Is there standards body that promulgates them? I remember that social media emerged as a term to describe media on which the users provided the content, rather than traditional gatekeepers like newspapers and TV networks. Wikipedia agrees, using special jargon, distinguishing between monologic and dialogic media models.
Reddit is quintessential social media.
Is there standards body that promulgates them?
Hmm. For me social media is where end users create the media. So Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube all fit this.
The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don’t agree with any of those rules
The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience
I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups
When a website doesn’t have a lively and persistent ‘local’ community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can’t really be social
4chan is social media.
That’s fair. I think it kind of depends on how much you interact with creators and their communities. (comment sections, comunity posts, live content, etc)
Same here. Most of my reddit usage was on my phone and used baconreader. When they killed 3rd party apps I switched to lemmy. My only reddit usage now is occasionally clicking on reddit links to search results on niche topics. Though i don’t do that much on my phone because of the annoyance of reddit constantly requesting to open in app instead of mt browser.
I kinda like that AI scrapes all of reddit as my Kagi searches can summarize reddit results without actually going to reddit.
I also don’t use any other social media, such as mastodon. I quit facebook about a decade ago and see zero reason to join anything else.
I had my first 3 months or so where I used both reddit and lemmy, then eventually I switched mainly to lemmy and only used reddit from a privacy frontend where I can’t interact, and then a month or so later I just fully ditched reddit.
I think I’ve been off reddit for a full year now. (Don’t be fooled by my account age, this ain’t my first account).
Same boat. There is obviously less content, but the user engagement seems more meaningful than getting lost in a sea of comments on some /r/AskReddit mega-thread. Not to mention, not having to deal with nearly as many Trump supporters and anti-LGBTQ people.
Remember /r/GenderCritical? A supposed rad-fem space that’s only purpose was to denigrate any existence of trans people? Or the multiple copies that propped up after it was banned?
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 wouldn’t consider exclusively using Lemmy for social media “hardcore”. Let’s be real, people don’t use social media because the content is important. I use Lemmy when I need a break and such, see some memes, read an interesting article someone posted. And Reddit sometimes turns up when I search for opinions on products, solutions for maintaining my home, stuff like that. Usually just useful, old posts. I keep in contact with people I actually know through private chats, mostly Signal. What else do you need?
Personally I use reddit a lot more than lemmy. My interests aren’t well represented here on lemmy. Still come here sometimes though.
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.
Lemmy is my only social media at this point. I have a few other sites I look at for information but they are tech sites. The tech sites I look at are not mainstream anymore either.
Thanks for the reminder to go delete my old comments and posts. Reddit is dead to me. I stopped using it two years ago. I’ll occasionally go there if there’s a legit looking search result for what I’m looking for, but I don’t bother logging in or interacting with the platform. Reddit is blocked by my work, which is typically what I’m searching for from there so it’s useless anyways.
i don’t use social media at all, and i don’t consider reddit social media tbh, at least not in the same category. but i don’t use reddit either since they fucked the API.
That’s me! I cut Reddit it when they turned off RIF, and never looked back. I also add -reddit to searches so I don’t give them any traffic
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.
I still use reddit on Apollo without logging in, guess I’m not hardcore :P
I was on Reddit a long time, never had a Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Snapchat, back in the dark ages I used Usenet but not AOL or Myspace or anything like that. I try not to use much that is not anonymous.
For a couple of years now just Lemmy, in those two years I have put I think 4 posts on Reddit (people with local questions, Lemmy is not big enough for a good local sub.), and look at it maybe once every two months, not browsing but in answer to specific questions.
I wouldn’t describe myself as hardcore, though. Regular person. I look at the phone’s news feed, talk to other people, get information other places.
I cold-turkeyed reddit.
Also noticed when I type reddit on android app search-bar thing sync shows up for some reason.
I haven’t looked at reddit since whenever they disabled 3rd party apps. I was on kbin for a while but find myself over here now.
