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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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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] questionAsker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

newsboat is a gem.

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Lemmy and Discord.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have been Lemmy only since the 3rd party app thing also. I also stopped using Twitter when Musk bought it, and have Mastadon on my to-do list but I'm not sure if I want to spin up my own instance or make an account elsewhere. Other than that I have no other social media accounts and never have.

As for other Fediverse platforms, I'm strongly opposed to the for profit ones, but happy to see all the open source ones.

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Lemmy and youtube are my mains. Which is used more really depends on my mood and how active is lemmy that day.

Do you use other social media? If yes, which services? What are your screennames and handles? What street did you grow up on? What was your Elementary School's maiden name?

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I don't really have a main social media right now, I use lemmy masto and yt tho.

no, not really. i kinda quit social media in the sense that i no longer use reddit, instagram, twitter or snap. they were all just too addicting. i log into lemmy once in a while, to see what's new, since there are some nice niche linux related communities, but apart from that i'm only on youtube (when i'm eating) or on discord (few small-ish servers). i don't really care much for news or polictics, and if i really need to know what's going on, i check the front page of wikipedia or ask my friends. i'm still struggling with using my phone more that i'd like, but this week i took a break from discord and youtube, with mixed results so far (see: i'm on lemmy), but overall it's been really freeing to not be on them and have a bunch more free time.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

Lemmy is my main but I still use Reddit sometimes for more niche subreddits.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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)

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I use Lemmy and Mastodon about equally. I find I like Lemmy for discussions, while Mastodon is good for news just because there are a lot more users overall, and you can follow different news feeds on it.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] joanne@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy is my main one, yes. I browse Pinterest every now and then, though I'm not sure how many would consider it social media in the traditional sense.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I feel like that would compare two very different types of social media:

  • Consumption oriented: Platforms which mainly tailor to consumers, like Tiktok, Pinterest, Instagram and Youtube.
  • Collaboration oriented: Platforms where engagement with the content and discussions are encouraged, like Lemmy and Mostodon and their proprietary equivalents.
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i also use youtube and discord, but I am looking for an alternative platform. Because to be honest, they kinda suck. I'm only there because other people are there.

Other than that, Lemmy is the main thing I use. I love it because it just does as I tell it to. Can't be much more simple.

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

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It wins by default but only because I never liked the Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky-like infinitely scrolling threads and only use Discord to follow some artists.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Have a very similar experience with Mastodon-like platforms. These feel more like announcement-sites rather than actual social media platforms.

[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm pretty much using TikTok and Lemmy. Lemmy because of ability to have filters and accessibility options. TikTok for the same reason plus much more likely to get videos of creators who are not all about money grabbing and care about LGBTQIA and nerodivergent people genuinely. Haven't found any other app that does that.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Dualbooting" is a nice analogy, haha. No, I switched completely over from the previous main ones: No Reddit and no Twitter. But I still use dedicated forums for specific topics/software, such as a Romhacking (retro game modding) community or RetroArch forum. Unfortunately not everyone is on Lemmy (or Mastodon, but I stopped using Mastodon too). So for me it is Lemmy/Beehaw and a few standalone forums.

Wait I also started using Discord from time to time, but dislike this as a main application. There is an alternative called "Matrix", which is similar to what Lemmy and Mastodon are respective to their technology. But its not that widespread, so stopped using it too. Maybe will comeback to it. I know there is BlueSky, which is a main competitor to Mastodon. Just didn't have enough interested into it yet, as there is Mastodon already.

  • Reddit <> Lemmy and Kbin
  • Twitter <> Mastodon
  • Discord <> Matrix

(I’m sorry if I’m the 100th person to ask this on here…)

Fine with me, as I didn't saw any of the 99th person asking this before.

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[–] eighty@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Similar situation. I quickly glance between Lemmy and Mastodon and only use ~~old.reddit when I'm on my PC~~ (just realised I hadn't really used it since I've been making an effort to engage with the manga communities on lemmy) . All my friends and favourite artists seem to use Instagram so I only use it out of necessity for messaging and quick inspirations (I tried using Cara but I found the app somewhat slow and disliked that it wasn't federated, so I could see it having a very low lifespan. I saw it as a poor move for artists to move to it solely on the promise of being "anti-AI" without any redundancies that a de-federated option would have)

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I only use Lemmy. Never had accounts on any of the other social media platforms apart from Facebook more than a decade ago. I've been checking reddit, reluctantly, here and there recently to have something to post to my communities. Apart from that, it's been Lemmy only since the exodus

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very interesting. I do still see many posts originating from Reddit around here, presumably exactly because of that reason.

But I must tell you, making your own funis and ideas and putting them onto Lemmy feels really great.
It feels like an invitation to discuss the topic with others and come up with new ideas, instead of feeding other peoples algorithms and keep them hooked on the site.

It feels much more like interacting with real actual people, even if there are less on here.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I hear you. The thing is, the communities I mod are quite niche (in relation to Lemmy's population, that is) and apart from the corresponding subreddits I used to lurk on for years, I'm not really exposed to anything new that would prompt me to make new discussion posts and memes. I've watched all video essays there are about the games, I played through all of them repeatedly, new content is not on the horizon for any one of them. The best thing about them is the discussion in the community which has been missing ever since I created the communities in the first place.

Believe me: I've tried. But keeping three separate communities alive all on your own without community members ever feeling the need to contribute gets exhausting and doesn't feel worthwhile. So making my own content, which I do when I have a cool idea, feels like more of a loss when the engagement is just as high, sometimes lower, as with content off reddit.

Lurkers will be lurking, I guess

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Instagram, followed by Lemmy. I'm trying to use IG less often.

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I was addicted to IG, getting off that platform was a blessing.

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day 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.

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

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