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Is Lemmy your "main social media app"? If not, which one is it? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anything that has an intransparent, engagement driving, ad laden algorithm that determines what you do and don't see is thoroughly unappealing to me. At least now that I'm a little more tech savvy and anti-corporate.

Hear hear. Under the guise of Engagement, corporations have weaponized algorithms to maximize the time you spend on their platforms, and it's absolutely been a race to the bottom, prioritizing Outrage above all else. Hard pass, thanks.

Corporate goals don't align with that of users like they used to.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

Ironically, I like when I eventually scroll to the end of the Lemmy posts and my app tells me “you have reached the bottom”.