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You know to my surprise, I actually don't... I'll watch a YouTube video or read a reddit post, but I don't go there on my own or ever sign in anymore.
Discord has for sure been hard to avoid, but I just don't chat with those people I guess. Some have come over to Delta chat, but if I really need to reach someone I'll just text them.
Being honest? Fuck no. Well, except for Facebook Marketplace. I try Craigslist first but all the good shit (and stupid people... holy fucking stupid people) are on Marketplace. Which means I technically have a FB account. I did venture down the feed a while back and the amount of AI slop had me noping out faster than a crab at a seagull convention. How anyone tolerates that shit is beyond me.
tumblr
No. No FB, no insta, no reddit, no shitter
Does linkedin count? Lol
discord for sure, since that's where all the ESO raiding teams are. twitter's my main source of really kinky gay scalie porn, but that's about it.
No
Haven been more or less inactive Facebook the last 15 years. As it made me depressed. Removed the app and my phone battery lasted 25% longer.
Since then I would spend 15 minutes scrolling maybe 3 times a year.
The changes are wild as the algorithm has too little data to work. Like two years ago every third post was a different picture of Ana de Armas and they all started with the text from "Havana to Hollywood". There would be 20 posts like that until I stopped scrolling
I have had every 3rd post be a cat fishing attempt too. Same caption "why is it so hard to find a nice guy" same model, different picture; repeated 20 times.
I started using marketplace this last year. I have been forced from Craigslist to Kijiji and now to marketplace. Have resented each move.
Reddit I will only lurk logged out. If will search Google with Reddit for product reviews or questions that I can't answer here. My mental health has improved greatly.
YouTube I still watch late shows highlights most weeks or will look up product reviews, comparisons, or DIY.
I don't watch any streaming.
I don't watch algorithm suggested videos. I don't watch vertical videos or other slop.
I'm still in the process of abandoning Reddit and barely started moving from Discord. Almost completely done with Facebook, though, and deleted Twitter while it was still Twitter.
YouTube will probably be the hardest to replace, and I'll stay on Bluesky alongside Mastodon for a while.
I guess the hard-core fedi users are naturally overrepresented because they're posting here a lot more often than others.
Unless you count old Reddit as "mainstream", I never did.
no but i barely used it anyway, a little Twitter until Musk to follow a few scientists, then to Mastodon, from there to Lemmy. I used Reddit occasionally but hadn't bothered for years anyway.
i don't have FB, Insta etal
I Just got my second Ban from Reddit in two weeks for mentioning Zionism in an inoccuous way.
Reddit has been captured.
Captured since at least 2015. More likely Reddit was an op from the beginning since /u/maxwellhill was Ghislane.
No but I barely used it in the first place.
I have FB for marketplace a couple times a year, I don't install the app unless I'm buying something.
I watch a LOT of educational YouTube, and some tech news on there, using GrayJay.
Otherwise, this is it.
Used to have insta years ago.
I guess I technically have Marco Polo, but it's literally my immediate family only 🤷♂️ and that's more chat app than social media.
I have a business profile on Instagram. I haven't used mainstream social media for personal reasons since 2008 or something like that.
the fediverse platforms i use are Lemmy, Mastodon, and PeerTube
i dont use any nonfree social media but am active on Discord (which is social media adjacent, being a chatroom platform)
i also watch Youtube videos (through Invidious) and occasionally browse Reddit meme communities but i dont have accounts on those
and i havent abandoned any mainstream platforms, i never used them, was never allowed to by parents (and never wanted to because i was properly educated about online privacy) (the reason i have discord is a dnd group)
i went down the libre software pipeline due to autism and my first pc running linux (my dad is a tech person), ive only ever had linux computers and a macbook (not counting mobile devices tho; i have an iphone and plan to replace it with a linux phone)
Never have. Was always a stupid idea. Annonymous or don't bother.
I have been in communities and chatting since the bbs days. So it's not like I am adverse to it.
But lately I see people saying, I can't quit Instagram or Facebook, it's where my friends are.
I am beginning to basically wonder: do you really want to be friends with people who directly support billionaires and fascism and propaganda? You are directly paying for that by participating. I am starting to cut people out of my life who won't leave. I've had enough.
As someone who grew up before the internet was adopted, then got into Angelfire/Geocities “about me” pages, early MySpace & Facebook; it wasn’t a stupid idea. The early years were amazing because suddenly we were in touch with people all over the world, friends half forgotten, and artists. MySpace and then Facebook was a game changer for booking bands if you were a small venue or house and for tour managers of indie bands in the early 00s. I booked and wrote for a print zine back then and got to book some phenomenal shows and interview some bands I probably never would have if it weren’t for the ease of what social media created. But it had a price. By the ‘10s I noticed the need to look DIY or like one was participating through curated “likes”, posts, or pictures was more important than actually participating. Then it just became shit. I still have an Insta for my dogs because it remains a decent platform for networking with dog rescues and volunteers across country (I wish someone with the tech skill would develop something exclusive for us to use for that), but otherwise it’s become garbage. But for a while it was as revolutionary as the telegraph or telephone for people who’d never been able to connect with others in that manner. Then, like robocalls and telemarketers, the corporate assholes found a way to exploit a fundamental human desire- to connect with other humans.
youtube and discord but only because i cant live without those (youtube for youtubers and updates, discord for friends)
I lurk on Reddit but no longer have an active account.
Nothing else
I do not use mainstream social media. Haven't in years.
I still have a Facebook account, but I refuse to even look at my feed. I don't really want to know what most of my family is up to, however Marketplace, sadly, is better than Craigslist ever was.
Still have my old YouTube account, but I rarely look at it.
No Gram/Twitter/LinkedIn Permabanned from the mainstream link aggregator what feels like forever ago
Don't remember my Tumblr login
This is it for me.
There is a group in Fecesbook about the war in Ukraine and the Russia. It is the most up-to-date and best-curated information source regarding the war, so I will follow that group until the war is finally over.
There's also a Finnish group for people travelling ecologically. I regularly browse questions people are posing there and if I'm the only one who knows a good answer, I write one. That group now has a sister community here on Forumverse, and any new content I want to write, I write in that comm instead of the Fecesbook group.
Otherwise I am outside all commercial social media. I do not have a google account, so I browse Youtube without login if I browse it. And typically using Tubular as my client program.
I think you're seeing a loud minority honestly. People who use mainstream socials still (yes, I do) don't tend to shout about it all the time.
never had facebook, instagram, etc ...
i skimmed reddit for a year before finding the fediverse. i've only ever been a lurker on reddit but have written 5k comments on lemmy so far ...
YouTube and discord if you can call those social media and Tumblr if you can call that mainstream.
We asked in our instance census about use of lemmy-like platforms (reddit, hacker news) and most people said they still used them in some respect:
Personally I use Facebook messenger, well I normally use Beeper because I don't have facebook on my phone but I still use the platform to connect with people. And video call on my laptop from time to time.
I use Discord, but only for a very few friends (and by very few I mean 2 and then 2 of my brothers ended up there too) mostly for comms in games, sometimes to chat.
We're considering options to leave, but as everything available has significant trade offs, it'll be a while.
But nothing else mainstream where you just post to the ether and friends/followers are just subscribed to it.
I use an app to browse reddit for images, but it can't log in or post comments.
But nothing else. I deleted Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram all around the time Elon bought Twitter.
Fediverse is really as close as I get to social media. I had some, and deleted them all years ago.
Except Discord, but I only use it like a common room in a dorm/apartment, not a connection to every other community in the world.
Not at all
Only YouTube.
I was pretty addicted to Reddit for a while, but eventually I got banned for basically no reason and that was enough to get me to almost entirely stop checking it.
Yeah I deleted all my accounts. I only run a mastodon, Lemmy, and a rarely used Pixelfed account now
I scrape reddit for things that can't be trusted to stay hosted there and put them on the Fediverse. But I don't actually use reddit.
No, not anymore. I also think about sun setting my other account on the microblogverse (never used twitter but started using mastodon because its foss weirdly enough).
I did use Reddit the most of all mainstream platforms but stopped way before the whole API debacle as I grew tired of the community recycling old jokes and the circle jerk.
I lurk on some subreddits still. Sometimes I just want to look at pictures of orangutans or neatly organized server racks without anyone bringing up Trump in the comments.
Also if you count YouTube, I still have premium though I’m starting to wonder if it’s worth it.
I have FB/IG, and to a lesser extent Reddit, exclusively to share Socialist and activist content, and keep up to date with what's going on. Most orgs still use FB/IG. 🤷♂️
I still enjoy reddit, while acknowledging how shitty it actually is (been a member since 2006 lol).
I've degoogled everything except Youtube. I don't really consider youtube social media since I'm not interacting with people.
I also have bluesky, mostly for lefty content. Honestly if all of it, including fediverse, went away tomorrow, I wouldn't care that much. I kind of hate everything about the internet these days...I much prefer meatspace socializing, even as an introvert.
I use discord and piefed and that's it. Discord is mainstream, but I'm just in a couple small servers talking with friends.
I just don't mesh well with most social media. Mastodon and Bluesky confuse me just as much as Twitter and Facebook did.
I’m still on Discord and YouTube, but I’d prefer a world where we could move to various alternatives.
I don’t even hate social media sites run by profit motivated companies. It’s a question of how profit-motivated and unregulated they want to be. Ideally, it shouldn’t be so hard to move - so that users don’t become “locked in” to a poor system, and competitors can show off the space’s problems.
I use Facebook to communicate with my family, since that's where our group chat is. I don't use my real name on there, but rather [MiddleName] [Grandmother'sMaidenName], and my profile pic is a cat. Sometimes I post pics of particularly good meals I made, so they come up in the "memories" feed and remind me to cook them again.
I follow a lot of chefs on Instagram, mainly for inspiration and to find new recipes.
That's the extent of my traditional social media use.
I used mainstream sm forever, but there came a breaking point for my mental health. Those platforms are made to keep people glued to them and I got tired of the dependency and the lost of focus/memory.
I use all of them, as long as people I know or care about use them.
I keep trying to block reddit, but half of the good practical advice and troubleshooting help is trapped there.
If anybody has a giant directory of active messageboards, I'm all ears.
