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I have fully transitioned to using Lemmy and Mastodon right when third party apps weren't allowed on Spez's place anymore, so I don't know how it is over there anymore.

What do you use? Are you still switching between the two, essentially dualbooting?

What other social media do you use? How do you feel about Fediverse social media platforms in general?

(I'm sorry if I'm the 100th person to ask this on here...)

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[โ€“] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Lemmy and Mastodon as well for me. With a little bit of discord and matrix for my projects' realtime chat

[โ€“] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I'd say I actively use Lemmy and Discord nowadays (as in, I'm making new posts there). Some times I leave a comment under a YouTube video, other times I lurk Reddit just to see what other people have said about XYZ topic.

I used to be a very frequent user of Reddit during much of my adolescence, but got tired of it a few months ago. I'm not exactly sure what caused it, maybe the increased toxicity, or that some subreddits got boring after they reached a certain number of subscribers. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

[โ€“] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Lemmy is too quiet and has little local activity so I still glance at FB and Reddit

[โ€“] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I don't have a "main social media app". I use Lemmy and Mastodon on mobile; Reddit and Facebook only on desktop.

[โ€“] portuga@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Been trying lemmy for a few months, and I have mixed feelings. Not going back to reddit even if hell freezes but if only I could strip the orange turd and the jumping dipshit (and all of us politics) from my feed Iโ€™d enjoy it way more. This is most certainly user error, so if anyone has any recommendations I would welcome them. Being on .world is the problem?

[โ€“] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

The voyager client has filters you could use to try and filter things out.

[โ€“] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Like the others have said, use Voyager to filter out the instances and communities you don't want to see.

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[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is for me, I use an account on Lemmy.ml for general browsing (and correcting misconceptions about Marxism, if I'm being honest), and a Hexbear.net account I pretty much only browse locally if I just want to relax and not have to worry about getting into an argument.

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I stopped using Reddit a few years before the whole stupidity, because the culture was fucking with my head.

Then I did the Mastodons for two years or so, with Lemmy eventually entering the mix. And then as Lemmy got more users and content, it took over as my preferred platform.

[โ€“] zlatiah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

My main social media app is Mastodon (technically Firefish which I will soon migrate to Iceshrimp... but those details are less relevant)

I consider Lemmy less so of a "social media" and more of a link aggregator/discussion forum... but yeah otherwise I try to use Lemmy a bit too. I still browse Reddit quite a lot, but only for individual communities that don't have equivalents on Lemmy, and I no longer post there

I never used much social media to begin with tbh... I feel pretty decent about the Fediverse. Despite all the drawbacks (blocklists, fedi drama, etc), I think people collectively managed to make an objectively better social media platforms compared to the previous corporation-dominated ones (at least by my personal metrics)

[โ€“] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months ago

Never used Facebook much. Nor Myspace before it. Seemed like it had some obvious pitfalls that everyone else was ignoring.

Used Twitter for a little while, but it was just making me mad. Then horrible guy bought it, so I deleted the already abandoned account.

Instagram also seemed like a source of feeling bad, so I never used it much.

I left reddit recently. It had some good content but the ownership sucks. With general Internet search getting bad, losing reddit sucks. Like, I searched yesterday for how to disable a setting in some app, and landed on some AI slop website that told me to write a letter to my local news station.

So this is all that's left for me. It's frustrating that most people don't give a shit and will just move on to the next private platform. I had a friend who was generally smart and successful, but she just didn't give a shit about this kind of thing. She wanted her easy entertainment, so she was on all the major platforms. Mastodon "didn't have good content" so she didn't use it.

[โ€“] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Lemmy and Discord.

[โ€“] modifier@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

If Lemmy is social media, then Lemmy is my only social media app. I have Mastadon installed but I never use it.

I think it has been a decade since I used Facebook or Twitter and I never tried any of the later generation of networks like Snap or TikTok.

[โ€“] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

in this order: Discord, YouTube, Lemmy

[โ€“] jacecomix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

This is pretty much where I'm at.
Discord is where tight knit social circles are.
Youtube is where I watch content from large creators I follow.
Lemmy is where I can follow public discussions about a variety of topics.

I have a Mastodon account and I like the instance, but it unfortunately fails to really deliver any of the 3 things I mentioned above.

[โ€“] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Mostly Lemmy, but still appending reddit to my Google searches. Just started with Bluesky, seems promising.

[โ€“] linkerbaan@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

I've got a private chat with a small group of friends. That's my primary social media. We share news and discuss ideas.

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