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

[–] FriedRice@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

For me its startet for some years ago with Mastodon,then I grew into the fediverse (I didn't know anything about it) and now I use loops.video (stil its made for doomscroling) mastodon, Lemmy and pixelfed. Loops I think I'm to old to use that much, (to fast for me) but else I'm really happy with the social media. I haven't been on a mainstream SOME for 3 years.

Youtube

There are so many really good animators on the platform

[–] krysel@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Lemmy is the only thing i post to occasionally. On Reddit and Instagram i just lurk

Lemmy and matrix, I still use Discord though because the communities are more active

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago

Just lemmy in a browser for me. Never used facebag or twatter or others besides reddit.

[–] questionAsker@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

newsboat is a gem.

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Lemmy and Discord.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I was never much of a social media guy, especially after moonlighting one summer as a social media marketer on Twitter and Instagram (really, really kills it for ya), but I was a redditor for a while.

I swapped over to Lemmy exclusively during the API fees, but to be fair I was already getting frustrated by the service. The karma farming was just too much, so many stupid reposts of the same stupid made up wholesome stories and crap. I think I only miss r/comics and r/idiotsincars, the later requiring a critical mass of people to actually be worthwhile.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Lemmy and Mastodon for me. I don’t get a lot of engagement on Mastodon but I never did on twitter either. So Lemmy is probably 90% of my interaction and mastodon is basically an reader for certain hashtags and people on the fedi

[–] KRAW@linux.community 1 points 6 days ago

Lemmy. For more niche communities that don't exist on Lemmy I use RSS feeds on specific subreddits. Discord for chatting with friend and other niche communities. LinkedIn because I'm in academia.

Lemmy and Facebook

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days 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)

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days 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.

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.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy, though I admit two days ago I put on political filters. I'll open the flood gates again in a couple weeks.

That being said, before Lemmy I hadn't used main stream social outside of Reddit for years anyway.

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[–] AwakenedAce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I completely switched to Mastodon and here, I'd rather not use platforms that are locked down by corporations and will inevitably enshittify without leaving me a simple way to migrate

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

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

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.

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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)

[–] emmie@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I use Cara, but that's because I am an artist.

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[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 6 days ago

These days twitter is where it's at for keeping up with everything that's censored everywhere else. There's nowhere better for Palestine updates. I hear tiktok is good too but I'm no longer a teenager.

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