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?
Lemmy only.
I’ve only ever marginaly used reddit, ages ago.
What’s so hardcore about preferring social media over algorithms?I only go to reddit when it comes up on a google search, all my posts and comments are replaced and deleted
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 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?
About the “hardcore” and msm, I do check msm, and try to use multiple sources and more balanced media sources. News on lemmy definitely isn’t neutral.
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 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.
80% Lemmy, 20% reddit with rdx app.
Depends what you mean by social media. I watch YouTube similar to watching TV. Doesn’t feel anything like Mastodon or Lemmy to me, you know what I mean?
I have a blue sky account. But I’m mainly on the fediverse
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 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.
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.
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.