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 didn't leave Reddit, Reddit disabled the app I used to access it for over 10 years when they disabled API access. Figured they didn't want or need my contributions anymore.

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.

I only use Lemmy since the reddit API Fuck up.

Sometimes, if I am looking for information, I visit reddit, but I treat it like any other random forum I look up something, take the info and fuck off again.

I use YouTube, if you wanna count that. I don't comment there and use Newpipe or PipePipe, so only consuming and no participation there too.

I haven't used any other social media, like Facebook or Instagram, so nothing hardcore for me in just continuing not to do so.

I’m 100% fediverse

No more stockholder / CEO / billionaire / fascist shit for me

For daily browsing, pure Lemmy.

Researching a problem or future purchase, I'm still putting site:reddit.com in the search bar. I love you Lemmy, but you're just not there yet.

Til that I'm hardcore

Lemmy is the only one I check daily. I don't bother with reddit unless I'm using a search engine and can't find the answer I'm looking for. Even then, reddit's not all that great anymore since a huge chunk of the user base deleted all their shit and left.

Haven't looked at reddit since the first exodus. Feels good.

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

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.

Is this considered "hardcore"? After the mobile apps bit the dust I left and never looked back. I don't like meta stuff because of privacy concerns. Fediverse only for me

I have not used reddit since the API fuckery.

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.

When I'm researching something and a reddit link pops up in search results, I'll check it. But I have abandoned my account and won't be logging back in. Aside from that, I try to be as hardcore as possible.

Reddit killed third party apps, and so they killed my engagement with them. Why go back?

Lemmy + Hackernews + Arstechnica

What more is there to know?

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

I am one that only uses Lemmy

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?

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

I only visit Reddit is search results take me there for a specific reason. Otherwise, I'm hardcore as fuck

Lemmy is the only social media platform where I have an account. No Facebook, no Reddit, no LinkedIn, etc. From time to time I do read a post on Reddit, when it comes up in search results. When you have an obscure gaming or Linux issue, Reddit can (unfortunately) still be a treasure trove.

Occasionally I'll hit up a reddit result if I'm doing a search looking for an answer to a specific question. But I never browse it since the 3rd party apps stopped working.

No Reddit for me. Had a 10+ year old account there. Disabling 3rd party apps was a clear sign that the platform was no longer a good place to be.

I switched to lemmy about two years ago and went almost cold turkey. There was one community on reddit that I returned to a couple of times in the first few weeks, but even that stopped as it just wasn’t worth it. I have been to reddit a few times since, but only when trying to solve a problem and reddit comes up as a search result, and only after trying other sources first.

Before the Reddit Exodus I only used Reddit and YouTube. Social media is a plague. Once I left Reddit I never looked back and now use Lemmy exclusively. I don't really see it as "hardcore", it's just me avoiding the worst and most stressful facet of modern society. I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not using any other social media.

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 only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.

Lemmy is my main social media. I don't use anything else. Occasionally, I still get reddit in my search results though.

Oh, I also use Discord.

I gave up on everything except Reddit in 2017 and gave up on Reddit with the api stuff going on.

So I guess I am that "hardcore".

Lemmy is my only social media

I never go to Reddit anymore after moving to Lemmy, but I do sometimes end up on a Reddit post it's a relevant search result.

I haven’t been back since the killing of third party apps. I had no interest in using Reddit any other way. I haven’t been back and I won’t go back. The Fediverse is better in every conceivable way.

10+ years of Reddit and switched here a year ago. Lemmy only.

Trump's election is what did it for me. That and Reddit's user experience had become so watered down with slop and bad content presentation in general. I've unsubscribed from Amazon, no Paypal, deleted Facebook, stopped using Gmail mostly (still working on that), deleted Instagram, stopped watching CNN, stopped allowing tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible. If your site tracks, I'm using another unless it is reasonable for the application.

Since then, on my phone, I use FOSS browser, NextDNS, Eternity for Lemmy, Pixelfed and Mastodon. For all my searching, I started using Swisscows, but now I am searching with SearxNG. Also, I am trying Proton, Tutanota, and kollabnow for email. Got Arch Linux on laptop because Microsoft tracking and snooping is so far out of control it should be illegal 50 different ways.

Fuck those techbros. This is now our civic duty.

If anything I'm surprised by the constant Reddit comparisons, because this has never felt like Reddit to me.

It feels like a 90s forum. Small, focused on a handful of topics, you always argue with the same five guys about the same five things... It's not a Reddit replacement at all. Which is why I'm here, I don't contribute to Reddit and never have.

Having come from reddit and already boycotting Facebook/Meta I don't feel hardcore using only Lemmy

It meets nearly all of my needs, and if the userbase picks up it will certainly eventually fill those needs as well

Personally I use reddit a lot more than lemmy. My interests aren't well represented here on lemmy. Still come here sometimes though.

Only Lemmy.

I used to use purely Reddit. I stopped after the API nonsense. Now I'm purely on lemmy. I have no interest in any of the others.

Hardcore? Reddit abd Twittter are full of bots and garbage, how does avoiding that make anyone hardcore? I think "more well informed" is the phrase you are looking for.

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!

I use Discord and Lemmy, no Reddit outside of reading threads on how to do something in a game

That's where I'm at. Reddit was the only social media I was using, now it's just Lemmy. I don't consider it "hardcore" or some kind of bragging right, I'm just happier without it.

This is the only "social media" I use, alsthough its really more like a message board than modern social media.

Is that considered hardcore? I know plenty of people without any social media, but all of them are >40yo, we learned to socialize before gafam

I only use lemmy. I'll need an alternative for Discord soon.

Only lemmy, I'm too spicy for corporate social media. Now if I said insane racist shit in support of trump, I'd be fine. But that's not me. I'm pointedly in favor of personal freedoms. Which is NOT in line with the end user agreements.

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Reddit sucks. I'm here only.

I check Reddit like 5-10 minutes a week max and usually only if i land there via searches and just do a quick gloss over anything ive potentially missed. But compare that to the hours a week in habitually using lemmy (for better and/or worse i guess haha)

I got banned from Reddit for calling an Anti-vaxxer a waste of oxygen :3

haven't used reddit once since Spez's mod-melting-bullshit. don't anticipate ever going back. bluesky + lemmy is more than enough distraction for me.

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.

There is plenty to engage with here. I don't miss Reddit, other than a couple of local groups that have no fedi equivalents, yet. But not enough to go back.

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 use Lemmy primarily. I try not to use Reddit, Meta, TikTok or anything else as much as I can if there is a Fediverse option.

Unfortunately, there are a few things you have to use that stuff for:

• Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.

• Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.

• Reddit for specific niche forums. If the community is active on Lemmy, I post questions here first but in some case I need an answer for something that doesn’t exist in the Fediverse yet.

I was more or less exclusively lemmy for a good year or so, up until several months ago.

I would've logged into reddit maybe 3 or 4 times in the last year.

Sadly, I have to admit that browsing reddit with redlib or something is better than lemmy.

Lemmys main virtue is that its not reddit.

There's less content here, and it really is an echo chamber.

Reddit for browsing hobby-related stuff, Lemmy if I want to get mad at Israel, seeing as that's every comment section and every single post.

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.

I switched to Lemmy after Reddit killed bacon reader. Never looked back. joined world and discovered defederation drama. Joined lemm.ee. now I'm on .zip. I don't want my instance dictating what I see. Even if it is the trifecta.

I use Mastodon also. I occasionally watch YouTube, but I don't post, and I definitely don't engage in the comments section.

Have not used Facebook in a decade. Not interested in tiktok or shorts. Occasionally pushed to imgur for the memes.

What's wrong with limiting social media to Lemmy? I like it here.

I stopped using Reddit when I switched to Lemmy.

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.

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

I don't consider myself hardcore, but I haven't posted to Reddit since the API thing, I read stuff there because there's lots of content, but I strongly dislike the official app so I refuse to use it, which means posting would be a hassle.

Lemmy and RSS feed is all I use. I look at things my wife and 2 others friends will send me on instagram, but I never just scroll through it

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.

I realized sometime in the last year that Lemmy provided me all the usual community groups I needed and actually content I wanted to read (I never really used Reddit to just browse, outside of the sub.s I'd joined).

And I've been using Mastodon since, like 2020 or something (never was a fan of Twitter, though).

Also stopped using Facebook though that's probably more due to burnout and falling out of touch with a lot of the people in my life. Facebook really did make navigating socializing and keeping in touch both easier and less energy intensive and it is, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage™ that people seem to emotionally brand such a large classification as. Shame about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also always going to end up as shit – in the end –, so long as owned by a corporation); since I'd already dropped in using it, I just opted to stay stopped.

Still use YouTube as there isn't a real viable alternative yet; itching for the day they're is.

And still use Tumblr, as most of those I socialize with are on there; though it has built up plenty of its own enshittification over the last few years. If I ever finish my Fediverse clone of it, that's where I'll be sprinting to.

Just lemmy for some years now. I do miss the Reddit of the olden days though. You know, when there was still some Aaron Schwartz in it.

Back in the day I could go online and ask every goddamn question and a real person would give me an answer. There was this treasure trove of knowledge and opinions. Lemmy is sadly not quite there yet, but the memes are spicy and I like those nice socks you computer people wear.

I dream of the day, when somebody shuts down the internet. Because I know, all you sock wearing and Linux wielding Weirdos will get your shit running again the fastest.

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

Lemmy only here

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.

Only Lemmy.

Im IP banned from Reddit though. Still wouldn’t ever go back.

In a way, Reddit is helping me move to Lemmy permanently by not letting me post.

Haven't been to reddit since I joined here.

Gave up on Reddit after the shit show of 2022. Never looked back.

Im permanent banned from reddit. So yes. I am only here now.

Lemmy only.

I am hardcore lemmy user

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

Permabanned from reddit and don't feel like going through the hassle of bypassing it. I still browse every now and then for niche content that just doesn't exist on Lemmy but otherwise I'm on here exclusively.

Lemmy only. I quit Reddit when the third party apps fell.

I do miss some of the niche hobby subreddits, but fuck Spez. If I need to find some info, I can access it via search engines.

Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with Lemmy, people are generally much nicer and there's more than enough content. Reddit was so overbloated that this smaller universe is quite enough for me.

I am ip banned from reddit for making 'threats' only check reddit as a news aggregate because it's a little quicker

I am Canadian. I quit Reddit and joined Lemmy several months ago. Not because of any issues with Reddit but because of all that american trump 51st state crap.

I’m a Reddit blackout leaver, never going back. Ever.

lemmy exclusively for me! ive been here since i got kicked off of the boost app lol

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.

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.

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

I completely quit reddit in protest after using it for over ten years when it threatened to replace the moderators of a small subreddit I participated in after that subreddit shut down during the API protests. I don't actually care about the API myself (I never used anything other than old reddit) but I thought that reddit had no moral (as opposed to merely legal) right to take over something the mods had built and it merely hosted.

Lemmy is worse, but at least I'm following my principles.

not quite

I nearly exclusively use Lemmy over Reddit, mastadon over xitter and Facebook, pixelfed over Instagram, ("nearly" because I still have the accounts, in case someone needs to contact me there). Although Lemmy is the only one I use frequently.

I still use YouTube and tiktok instead of peertube and loops though. They're just not big enough to host the content I'm interested in.

I deleted my Reddit account and switched to Lemmy after the API stuff. I kinda regret deleting my account because it wasn’t until after that I learned about the apps that would scrub your comment history, but Reddit has a tendency to roll those back anyway.

I still sometimes end up on a Reddit thread when searching for some technical issue, but I generally try to browse other forums for solutions first if possible.

ETA: all other social media stuff like Instagram and Facebook I deleted around the time of Trump’s first election. Just got sick of the constant stream of bullshit.

I also use Reddit. My local sub can’t be replicated here, unfortunately, and it’s a very valuable resource to know what’s going on in the local community.

Instagram has its grip on me sadly. Tho after the localhost fiasco I switched over to browser Instagram

I literally only use Lemmy, I'm not even all that interested in Mastodon XD

Lemmy, no Reddit anymore

I never post or browse Reddit anymore, but I'll still look at Reddit search results. There's just too much good information on there that you just can't find elsewhere.

I'm not hardcore anything but I quit using Reddit and have not looked back. I also don't use any other social, even tough I own other accounts I have not logged into for many years.

Why I don't see myself hardcore? Because there is no hate, or anger and no desire to preach anyone to switch either. I respect people's choice. I disagreed with a few of reddit decisions & their policy change back then and took my decision accordingly. I posted a goodbye note explaining why I left reddit and switched to Lemmy. The same with X, Facebook, or whatever: when I realized I could not trust those services, I told people around me and moved away.

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!

Until Lemmy can offer me the active specialized subs I use reddit for, it's pretty hard to drop it completely.

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.

Only Lemmy and Mastodon and that's too much !

Though i have test accounts with with GotoSocial and Piefed.

Avoiding the shit from enshittification isn't hardcore, it's just the normal adult thing to do.

Well, I'm permanently banned from Reddit, so....here I am!

I only use Reddit when it comes up in a search result. Otherwise it is Lemmy all the way

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.

I exclusively use Lemmy to complain when my new Reddit account gets shadowbanned again. The issue is that the communities here simply are not big enough. I go on the Lemmy alternatives of the subreddits I visit often and there are like 4 posts over the course of multiple years

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

Mostly Lemmy here. I use it for my doomscrolling and distraction, and for that it's imho much better than Reddit, since the content is much less fake (I hate all that AITA creative writing and similar crap) and the politics are better.

I do sometimes use Reddit for when I actually have questions about some deeper topic. Lemmy sadly doesn't have the manpower and the decades of content to help me when I need to know how to overclock a specific 15 yo netbook or when I need help with some issue in a game or something. For that, there's sadly hardly a way around Reddit. Some things can be (badly) covered by Stack Exchange, some things I can maybe find on DuckDuckGo between heaps of AI slop, or I could let ChatGPT lie to me by hallucinating a wrong answer. But in many cases there is sadly no way around Reddit.

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

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.

I’m banned from Reddit so I’m here and this is my only social media left

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 nuked my post history and haven't logged-in to 'that site' in about two years. there is one sub i lurk in occasionally that hasn't gained any traction on the lemmy equivalent. that's it other than the (relatively infrequent) pointer to a post from a web search for which no other alternative was listed.

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

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

I haven't used reddit since they removed the free API that FOSS apps were using. Lemmy is the only "reddit like" that I've used since. As for other social media, I left Facebook over 10 years ago, never used twitter, or anything newer that isn't FOSS and federated. I've used mastodon since 2017. So I guess that makes me hardcore?

Been feeling that a lot lately. As of the past couple days I've been exclusively on Lemmy/PieFed

Reddit is only good for the occasional Google search.

Yes.

You don't understand how dead and foreclosed corporate social media appears to me if that surprises.

I don't like feeling like I am a tree being fed into a woodchipper.

I never fit in on corporate social media and after facebook I never found another corporate digital community that structurally felt like home (not just the vibe like Bluesky or Threads which are such false promises it physically hurts).

However the corporate social media platform that has isolated me the most and hurt my vim for life most deeply is Discord and it isn't even close.

I consider myself literally in a battle of life and death fighting the tide of Discord because I am not welcome there, my infodumps and tangents categorically are rejected by the format, the kinds of conversations I want to have are always drowned out and chat topics are so overly specific and narrow there is nothing to discover in the first place.

Edit I watch a lot of Youtube so I guess I can't say yes but I have a peertube creator account and I am in it for the long haul so shrugs it is what it is.

I only use lemmy, I left reddit during the mod api fiasco

as for social media, unless you concider YouTube or discord I don't have any

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

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.

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).

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

Yes. I don't even think of it as hardcore really, just that lemmy is good enough for my use case. If I don't find something I want in the fediverse, I'll create/post it myself.

*I'll also read a relevant thread on reddit, but I use the libredirect plugin so I always view through a front end (that I also connect to through a vpn).

**I will also say that there are some article posts that I don't think I'd be able to find easily with msm, mostly anything to do with Palestine.

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.

Like many who responded, I don't think it's hardcore to not be on Reddit. I was for a long time, then my local forum in Denver was crushed by Reddit admins overreacting to the API rebellion, then the hobby forums started being taken over by AI, and finally the tone on other subs became absolutely toxic, with no variant of the prevailing opinion allowed. Hello, /r/Summit!

The only thing missing from Lemmy is depth, and that will fill in automatically as more people join. For a change, I am delighted to be on a platform that isn't beholden to a small group that makes all the decisions regardless of user input. In fact, I started out on KBin until that flaked out massively (back to normal, now) and was excited that I could just switch to Lemmy and see the exact same things.

Now I am on piefed because I like Python and would like to contribute. But I love all the people at Lemmy <3.

I actively avoid reddit links for the last 2 years.

Me, but that's because Reddit permabanned me on the post- inauguration bloodbath.

In some ways I like Lemmy a lot better for things like politics. It doesn't have all the puns, trolls, Russian Propaganda Farmers, bots, novelty accounts, etc., so while they are fewer comments, they tend to be more substantial. I can also mostly say what I think without getting suspended.

On the other hand, I miss some of the personal forums, which are far more active on Reddit. I'd like the guitar forums to be more active, but they barely have any posts. Most have weeks or even months between posts, while Reddits have a constant flow, every minute. I keep saying that I'm going to start posting content as often as possible, but I haven't yet. Maybe I'll start this week.

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

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

The only mainstream platform that I'm still active on would be Discord, but that's only because there's no viable alternative yet.

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

I exclusively use Lemmy on my phone, only time I use reddit if I'm searching something and it pops up in the results because it usually has the answer or gets me closer to it

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'm only on Lemmy (and other Fediverse sites). And I guess I ramble and post photos on Tumblr (but I think they're working on ActivityPub support too?)

I only occasionally pick up random Reddit threads on web searches (and even those seem few and far between these days), and I'm definitely not posting there anymore.

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.

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

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.

80% Lemmy, 20% reddit with rdx app.

Almost, because my niche gaming hobby has no Lemmy community.

I only use reddit anymore for the meta. It's like a zoo. Its users are scarcely self-aware. I know this is conceited but whatever.

I think lemmy being a reddit clone is rather ill-fated but at least for now people generally still post like real human beings. There's something strange about how dialog is basically an algorithm. Reddit is reached some sort of maximum where nothing you can possibly say will deviate the flow of comment sections from the pre-defined talking points. It's like they're all stuck in neurotic thought cycles.

There's a video with Trevor Noah and John Stewart where they talk about how social media is a performance. It's not a "town square" or whatever. It's not really honest in good faith dialog.

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 use Lemmy 99.999% of the time. I asked a plumbing question on Reddit, some radio questions a few months back, and that's really all I can remember. I don't browse it. I don't avoid it if search results go there though. But I don't seek it out often at all.

BBS -> Slashdot -> Reddit -> Lemmy -> ???

They all have their time. I'll see some of y'all on whatever is next. It branches, I didn't do digg.

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

I left social media earlier this year. Lemmy is my transition platform. I hope to eventually drop off the internet entirely except for job and practical related things.

Yup

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 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.

Only Lemmy

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

I only use reddit sometimes when I am searching something on google (i am just adding 'reddit' after keywords). The bonus is that I don't get AI answers when I do this.

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’d love to but how tf do we get more users here?? HOW

Yes. 🤷‍♂️

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

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.

Besides two niche subreddits, I stopped using reddit. So it's 90% Lemmy. I don't use much else for social media except Something Awful and a heavily manually censored Discover tab on Bluesky because I'm sick of seeing Amercians crying and their politics. I wish we could region block entire countries on our personal social media accounts.

Anyways, the focus is reddit. I don't really miss it because I could see the rot with bots, alts, power mods, site leadership, vote manipulation, etc etc.

Lemmy, NPR, and AP are the only things I read now.

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 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.

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.

Never considered it hardcore but yes Lemmy is my only social media unless you count youtube.

Deleted:

• facebook
• twitter
• reddit
• soundcloud
• spotify
• instagram
• snapchat

I've been changing to free alternatives and switching to Linux just turbocharged the process.

Lemmy only. No other social media, be it Twitter, Instagram, or any federated/FOSS alternative.

I still read some Reddit, but only signed out and I certainly don't post.

Only decentralized open source social media for me

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.

It's not that I try to ne hardcore. Reddit was alright, but I felt subconciously it is going to shit for some time. But I liked the format, so I stayed. The API fiasco just showed the really bad face of it (mainly how it was handled) and made an opportunity for people to talk more about alternatives. Sure, Lemmy doesn't have as much stuff as Reddit, especially for more niche topics but I enjoy my stay much more.

I peeked in a couple of times but not for long.

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.

I still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.

I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it's pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.

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 got banned from reddit for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and my appeal was declined in minutes. This has led me to the conclusion that Reddit is pro nazi and ban evasion is a lot of work.

I do still peep at it because ngl Lemmy doesn't have that endless stream of content going.

I guess I'm hardcore now. 🤘

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

Yeah, Lemmy and Mastodon only for me too.

I don't use social media at all.

As far as Reddit/Lemmy, I only use Lemmy.

I did have a reddit account at one point but it only had a handful of posts, mostly gratitude for solutions to problems I was searching about, with reddit being the top return with the correct answer... Got banned for some reason though, so even if I had interest in using reddit (which I dont),I cant anymore, lol.

I've been off reddit for years before Lemmy. I do have an Instagram account, logged into the app on an otherwise empty Android VM, which means I'm not fully hardcore. Need that because people are way cagey about giving out their phone number, but everyone wants you to write them on insta. Could just ignore that, but I like meeting people.

Nothing non-federated apart from that, though.

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.

I use Lemmy and Mastodon (and sometimes Pixelfed), but have currently a Bluesky-phase. I also noticed a lot of anxiety when using bluesky regarding current events, so i'm thinking of dropping it again, i can cope better with lemmy, much less hectic.

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...

Seeing how this post has 600 replies and I see a lot of activity in the past 6 months I feel Lemmy is doing pretty well as a reddit alternative.

I certainly don't miss the amount of shitposting that reddit had. Literally every first post was some dumb joke that didn't even made me chuckle..

Used to use RiF, stopped when the api bullshit went down and all I use are lemmy and Facebook now.

I use only Lemmy. It was easy for me since I pretty much only used Reddit until the mass exodus happened about a year ago and then shortly after they killed the RiF app for Android and I lost the way that I consumed Reddit 95% of the time so I transitioned to using Lemmy full time. I didn't have much of a choice unless I used PC to access Reddit, which I will still do from time to time for niche subjects, but I avoid posting.

I've never had any other "traditional" social media accounts. Call me a hipster, but I thought that shit was lame when people were constantly asking about adding me on MySpace or Facebook and just never bothered to jump on the bandwagon. Eventually, when it came out that those places were cesspools run by unethical hacks I avoided ever signing up intentionally and thanked my lucky stars that I was a grumpy and rebellious contrarian in my youth. I think I was forced to make a Facebook account to use my Oculus VR headset, but I put in as little factual information as I could get away with and never interacted with their terrible algorithm.

I quit the others when Facebook started to hold my friend's messages hostage their invasive mobile app. I figured they only wanted the app installed so they could spy on me. I was right.

Lemmy all the time. I sometimes read Threads, though only when they recommended a story via Instagram, where my meme friends are

Me.

Hate Reddit. Always did. Lemmy's better.

Got banned from reddit for being pro ukraine and saying the german trainsystem management structure needs to be destroyed and rebuild a new.

So yeah only lemmy for me

It's not that I don't bother with mainstream social media, it's that I no longer have accounts with them and that most of my personal information on accounts with services like YouTube or Discord are fake names and addresses, sometimes even fake phone numbers.

I haven't looked back at Reddit since the API changes, stopped using StackOver when they started using AI.

I mostly browse Lemmy, but I occasionally check Reddit. I never really got into the microblogging types of platforms (Mastodon, X, Bluesky, Threads, etc) for some reason

I've never been an avid Reddit user, so on that front it's very easy to me.

Still, I do interact with some of the other mainstream media.

I interact only with Lemmy since I made an account. Before that, I did not interact with anything since the Reddit exodus.

lemmy since 2020 and mastodon since earlier this year, I use discord a lot, and a ton of rss feeds. I occasionally check instagram because thats where my wife sends me her memes so I try to remember to get in there at least once a week. I search for reddit answers when looking for stuff like recommendations but I havent had an account for a few years now

I don't know if I'm hardcore or not, but I've never had a Reddit account.

Oh shoot! I missed posting to this topic on my cakeday by 20 minutes, but me!

Came over after they killed third party apps because I couldn't use my beloved Sync, which is now never updated anyways.

I'm not ashamed to admit I moved to Reddit during the great Digg migration. Platforms come and go, you just keep on rolling.

In all seriousness, I do feel like content has got better here in that time and I enjoy the raw, early Internet vibes. There's still plenty of room to grow, but I feel very positive about it all.

I bailed on Reddit and uninstalled after they made “Luigi” into hate speech or inciting violence. First off Luigi Mangione is a fucking Saint. Second, fuck Reddit. Lemmy all the way!

I've stopped contributing on Reddit a long time ago and only visit niche communities as a news feeds mostly.

I've actually been working on scraping powered rss feed generator of my own to avoid visiting reddit all together but turns out its a bit more than a weekend project to put all of the pieces together.

I stopped reddit a couple years ago, and I only use lemmy. This is like my 6th account, and instance hop. Definitely a system that works better for me.

I mostly just use Lemmy. On rare occasions I check Instagram, but only if friends of mine post something (got notifications turned on for everybody I care about)

Lemmy has like 0 discussion about anything not technical or not related to American politics so have to peruse reddit now and then

Just Lemmy.

Nope. I never really used Reddit. I haven't touched Facebook since you needed an .edu email. Never got on any of the other platforms.

Main thing I used to use was just a small forum with a few people I knew for 20+ years until the guy who took over code and server maintenance made it a Nazi safe space.

Lemmy, piefed, mastodon, sometimes pixelated. No reddit.

Lemmy & Reddit. Subs for my language are very quiet here, so I use Reddit for that.

The dream is to be off them completely, but I view (but do not engage with) a weekly top posts of a few reddit communities at the end of the week. YouTube has its claws in me and I look forward to trading that out.

Lemmy only. Haven’t used reddit in a couple of years. I have a Pixelfed account that gets opened once every two weeks or so. No meta products, no xitter, this is it.

Once I closed the instagram account, I lost a few friends. A couple I had known for years IRL. The important ones I am still in touch with, mostly via text of some sort

Oh I only use Lemmy, I didn't use Reddit in the past anyway, Lemmy is my first actual experience

Only browse old.reddit when searching around for info I might not run into otherwise but haven't needed to log in there in the last 1-2 years or so. Beyond that usage it's just Lemmy for the normal browsing/posting/commenting.

I use Reddit to investigate niche topics. Sometimes I want people's say instead of these blogs showing top 10 house renting service.

The pure scale of Reddit users makes it more attractive in this regards right now

I mainly use Lemmy. Reddit for search results, haven’t seen the home page in years. Never had Twitter or Instagram or TikTok. Still watch a lot of YouTube, mostly for either chess content or movie reviews, sometimes tutorials or professional lectures. Use Facebook for talking to exactly two friends.

Logged into Facebook the other day and saw a friend request. The name was familiar, but not exactly, so I checked the profile. Soon realized he was my ex-girlfriend.

I've not gone back to reddit since the big exodus a couple of years ago, was it? Aside from checking specific threads about pc issues I run into etc... Well actually I never had an account on reddit tbh, I was just browsing so I don't know if it counts.

I cold-turkeyed reddit.

Also noticed when I type reddit on android app search-bar thing sync shows up for some reason.

Just Lemmy for me. They pissed me the fuck off and i'm a stubborn bastard.

I'm enjoying Bluesky too, but yeah, reddit sucks so much since the API changes. When was that?

I don't even remember anymore.

Look, we debated all this a decade ago. Can venture funded social media stay good? Now we know! Back then, the alternatives were more difficult to find and use. Lemmy and mastodon are here, and they're so easy. It's great. Keep building.

On the two subs I frequented:

• /r/thelastairbender is just cultish and shallow now. I abandoned it. But it's painful for me, as this is like the only sane place left the fandom has any critical mass. /c/thelastairbender is nice, but very quiet.

• /r/localllama Has... lost its intelligence? Like no one seems to experiment or talk technically anymore, good talk seems to be on github, or shattered across Discords, while the 'critical mass' is in the AI Bro black hole of Twitter and Linkedin. I read it, but never post anymore. localllama here is better, but smaller and downvoted to hell.

Also, I've been shadowbanned on like 4 accounts in 3 different IPs/machines, no explanation, no recourse. I never post anything political or even remotely provocative (unless links to Lemmy count) and only visit those two subs, so... Yeah, kinda sick of that.

I am so hardcore. Like Quickdraw McGraw. Fuck what you heard, you ain't heard this before.

I return to Reddit mostly to harvest memes to bring here, or to ask obscure questions that I don't think there's enough of an audience here to get a good answer (I'm still looking for the "The Swaggoraki are swarming!" pic, if any Warhammer meme fans can find it)

Lemmy is my only social media

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.

I ditched reddit for good two years ago. Now I just use Lemmy, Tildes, and Lobste.rs

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?

Haven't been to reddit in the two years since I joined here, and I don't have any other social media.

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.

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

Ah ya. Two years ago, I used to use both. Reddit old via Firefox mobile and lemmy via sync. Now I just lemmy because reddit is both cumbersome to use and, for lack of a better word, generic. The interaction doesn't feel real. So now I just lemmy.

Except sometimes on desktop when I browse porn. There. I said it.

I only use Lemmy for browsing but I still search “(product name) Reddit” for reviews of appliances in addition to free consumer reports access through my library. It still seems like the best way to get real user feedback despite reddits best efforts to sell out.

I rock out with my Lemmy out🤘

I use facebook marketplace and youtube but that's it when it comes to corpo social media

Want to leave Reddit, but content is SEVERLY LACKING on Lemmy, and the thing that keeps me away from Lemmy is

1. The people , who thinks Linux is god and anyone says anything else is pure evil/villain and act accordingly here in comments EVERYWHWRE
2. same as above
3. I can't figure out what are Lemmy sub parts and how to access them, till date I have I access to part of Lemmy shown to me via BOOST app, but apart from that I don't know

Not quite 100% yet - I still check in with R every week or two vs looking in on Lemmy daily.

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.

Joined when Boost for reddit stopped working for me a couple of months ago. Now I check the new here and open reddit when I'm just doom scrolling.

I do. Got banned.

🙋‍♂️

I've only ever marginaly used reddit, ages ago.
What's so hardcore about preferring social media over algorithms?

Well i do use youtube but other than that i basically only use non-mainstream social media. I also use snapchat but only for messaging.

Only Lemmy for about a year now

It is not hardcore i'd actually advise anyone to limit its media following for its own mental health. I never feel better than on vacation during which I barely check news and internet

I do Lemmy and blue sky. I have mastodon but don't go there much anymore.

I watch videos on YouTube if that counts as social media.

I haven't used Reddit since I made my Lemmy account aside from when it comes up incidentally in conversations or online searches.

Reddit isn't anime friendly and I don't wish to support organizations that feel that way.

I'm trying to leave #Meta apps for the #Fediverse. However, It is not easy because Most of my contacts are there and there is not so much local discussion here

The only social media I really use is Lemmy. I have instagram strictly because that’s where my sibling’s meme group chat is and they don’t want to move. I don’t use it for anything else.

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.

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

sometimes open old.reddit.com when i need info but otherwise lemmy and i compartmentalize accounts into different languages

For most of my scrolling and feed I use lemmy. I have discord for friends and workmates. Reddit I never comment, scroll, or even login to, but some extremely specific searches will still have some usable info on Reddit, especially for work (IT, mostly non Linux environments) or for very niche subjects.

I don't use other forms of social media, unless you count random youtube videos. Though I don't go through that using the algorithm much either, unless it recommends videos from the same 8 or so creators I'll let it, or it's short animal videos.

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 incidentally 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.

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.

I use reddit, but barely. Mostly for irish subreddits, the severance subreddit and r/guineapigs. And shilling lemmy of course ; )

Literally the only social media I use (apart from signal, if that counts).

I have a blue sky account. But I’m mainly on the fediverse

Browse reddit but only have lemmy account

Besides that , my only other socials (bluesky|tumblr)

The only thing I have that's mainstream is Bsky. Outside of that, I've been fedi exclusive for some years now. I tried to make a Tumblr, but I forgot just how much corpo ran networks suck. The moment I was hit with adverts for their crappy membership and shop, I tapped out. I have a Facebook that's only occasionally used to get contact information from old friends and family, but aside from that I'm always logged out.

That's about it, I think. I consume Youtube through the web client and 3rd party mobile clients without an account, and I get around other sites with similar methods.

Ever since they killed third party apps, I stopped using it on my phone. Now whenever I have time to kill on my phone, I'm on Lemmy. My PC still has the old interface and such, so i still check it from time to time at home, but never on mobile. I'm on mobile for news far more than at my desktop.

I only participate on Lemmy. I strictly consume video content on Reddit. But I haven't participated on Reddit in around a decade.

I am almost Lemmy/Piefed exclusive now. Sometimes I visit Reddit for some niche topics but I'm usually logged out and never comment there.

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

Soon as I figure out Lemmy’s porn options I’m done with Reddit forever.

Til then tho, I’m happy to consume Reddit’s content without spending a single cent towards it or any of its advertisers.

Used to browse Reddit daily but not anymore. Still use it if I need help troubleshooting something or for some specific piece of information I am looking for.

I used reddit for searching stuff purely out of convenience (which lemmy instance do I choose for the site: query?) but for everyday content it's exclusively lemmy ever since I went on a mission of deleting all my commercial social media accounts.

i tried but there's just not enough content here, so I'm primarily lemmy maybe 40% of the time and reddit the other 60%

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.

I quit instagram in February or so and haven’t looked back since. „Social“ my ass.

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.

I use it for porn sometimes but thats it

i left reddit since the API/spez drama and exclusively use lemmy as "social media"

I don't need more time wasting sites, so I do limit myself to Lemmy. Yes.

reddit? never heard of her

Lemmy for shits and giggles.

Facebork for relatives and friends who won't get off it.

I only use Lemmy

🙋‍♂️

Lemmy is the only "social media" (is it even considered social media?) that I have an account with.

I do lurk reddit's front page, but only because stuff gets posted there faster.