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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 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.

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 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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Lemmy only. No other social media, especially stuff like X or Mastodon

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

Most people in here got banned or erased their Reddit account

I'd imagine is a pretty small amount

I stopped using Reddit when I switched to Lemmy.

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.

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.

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.

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