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The only mainstream platform that I'm still active on would be Discord, but that's only because there's no viable alternative yet.

I'm only three (3) active (and hopefully semi/official) communities away from ditching r/ and moving completely to c/; for most of everything else I've found quite sufficient activity on Lemmy + Mastodon. Alas, since "representatives moving their community to lemmy" is not the kind of stuff you can enhance yourself unless you are an admin of those, I'm stuck on waiting.

Mostly Lemmy here. I use it for my doomscrolling and distraction, and for that it's imho much better than Reddit, since the content is much less fake (I hate all that AITA creative writing and similar crap) and the politics are better.

I do sometimes use Reddit for when I actually have questions about some deeper topic. Lemmy sadly doesn't have the manpower and the decades of content to help me when I need to know how to overclock a specific 15 yo netbook or when I need help with some issue in a game or something. For that, there's sadly hardly a way around Reddit. Some things can be (badly) covered by Stack Exchange, some things I can maybe find on DuckDuckGo between heaps of AI slop, or I could let ChatGPT lie to me by hallucinating a wrong answer. But in many cases there is sadly no way around Reddit.

I actively avoid reddit links for the last 2 years.

I'm such a solipsist, I'm surprised reddit is still relevant to anyone. I certainly come across some posts when searching for tech or product questions, but that's it.

Although even outside of the fedi, I spend more and more of my time just looking at people's individual websites and blogs. I've got a basically bottomless RSS feed curated by this point, so I don't even need an aggregator for the scroll -- I've got my own.

I do lurk Reddit occasionally (using old.reddit.com only) and silently mod a subreddit that I'm attached to, but I don't submit posts or make new comments there anymore.

I also lurk Hacker News, Mastodon, Bluesky and Tildes.

Lemmy is my main site where I post the most.

i nuked my post history and haven't logged-in to 'that site' in about two years. there is one sub i lurk in occasionally that hasn't gained any traction on the lemmy equivalent. that's it other than the (relatively infrequent) pointer to a post from a web search for which no other alternative was listed.

account on lemmy, just lurking the start page once a day for reddit without an account

Yes.

You don't understand how dead and foreclosed corporate social media appears to me if that surprises.

I don't like feeling like I am a tree being fed into a woodchipper.

I never fit in on corporate social media and after facebook I never found another corporate digital community that structurally felt like home (not just the vibe like Bluesky or Threads which are such false promises it physically hurts).

However the corporate social media platform that has isolated me the most and hurt my vim for life most deeply is Discord and it isn't even close.

I consider myself literally in a battle of life and death fighting the tide of Discord because I am not welcome there, my infodumps and tangents categorically are rejected by the format, the kinds of conversations I want to have are always drowned out and chat topics are so overly specific and narrow there is nothing to discover in the first place.

Edit I watch a lot of Youtube so I guess I can't say yes but I have a peertube creator account and I am in it for the long haul so shrugs it is what it is.

Instagram has its grip on me sadly. Tho after the localhost fiasco I switched over to browser Instagram

I'm not hardcore anything but I quit using Reddit and have not looked back. I also don't use any other social, even tough I own other accounts I have not logged into for many years.

Why I don't see myself hardcore? Because there is no hate, or anger and no desire to preach anyone to switch either. I respect people's choice. I disagreed with a few of reddit decisions & their policy change back then and took my decision accordingly. I posted a goodbye note explaining why I left reddit and switched to Lemmy. The same with X, Facebook, or whatever: when I realized I could not trust those services, I told people around me and moved away.

I quit reddit 2 years ago and have been Lemmy/kbin/pifed only since.

Added this to my hosts file 3 years ago when stormfront went full corporate sock puppets and censorship:

127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

I only use Lemmy unless Internet search results bring me to a reddit post for an answer to a question. I don't comment on reddit anymore or even browse it.

I only use Reddit when it comes up in a search result. Otherwise it is Lemmy all the way

Lemmy Mastodon Bluesky

These are my main social media platforms now.

I might hit a Reddit link here or there because occasionally the information I need is posted there (that I found from a web search). But I don't browse that site ever any more.

Deleted Twitter because of elon. Deleted Facebook after Cambridge Analytica. Never had Instagram (will never download a Meta app at this point).

Lemmy is the only platform I participate on. I do occasionally check some niche subs on Reddit for hobbies and games I follow for news/suggestions/ideas/etc., but no idle browsing and no contributing, not even through votes.

I also sometimes pop onto Reddit just to manually edit and delete more of my comment history, because the automated tools are apparently only capable of seeing the past year. Once I finally get through everything, I can delete my account, but it's a slow process with years worth of content to remove going back to 2010.

I deleted my reddit account because spez took the reins in advance of their IPO. I've never looked back.

Reddit started having ads and i noped out. Was really only using it for porn lol

I wouldn't call it 'hardcore' not to use crap like that. I've never used Reddit, Twitter instagram or any of that (with one brief exception). Only the Fediverse. Made my mastodon account in 2018 and that's all I used until I made this Lemmy account last year.

The exception was: back about 15 years or so ago, some people talked me into making a facebook account because they had a group on there. I reluctantly made the account and read their posts for a while but it was just stupid meaningless tripe, so I never posted anything on there and after a while I deleted the account. During that time it was apparently hijacked because I logged on and someone had made a completely weird profile on it. Don't know how they did it but I changed the password and removed the stuff which seemed to work, that's when I submitted the deletion request to FB though who knows what happened to it after that.

edit: I should add that I do use Youtube (mainly via Freetube but not always) and I do read reddit posts when I search for things and it comes up as a relevant result.

Reddit is only good for the occasional Google search.

Like many who responded, I don't think it's hardcore to not be on Reddit. I was for a long time, then my local forum in Denver was crushed by Reddit admins overreacting to the API rebellion, then the hobby forums started being taken over by AI, and finally the tone on other subs became absolutely toxic, with no variant of the prevailing opinion allowed. Hello, /r/Summit!

The only thing missing from Lemmy is depth, and that will fill in automatically as more people join. For a change, I am delighted to be on a platform that isn't beholden to a small group that makes all the decisions regardless of user input. In fact, I started out on KBin until that flaked out massively (back to normal, now) and was excited that I could just switch to Lemmy and see the exact same things.

Now I am on piefed because I like Python and would like to contribute. But I love all the people at Lemmy <3.

Does leeching off of Reddit with redlib instances count as using it?

reddit links from searches are the only times i land there.

I only use lemmy, I left reddit during the mod api fiasco

as for social media, unless you concider YouTube or discord I don't have any

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.

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?

Me, but that's because Reddit permabanned me on the post- inauguration bloodbath.

In some ways I like Lemmy a lot better for things like politics. It doesn't have all the puns, trolls, Russian Propaganda Farmers, bots, novelty accounts, etc., so while they are fewer comments, they tend to be more substantial. I can also mostly say what I think without getting suspended.

On the other hand, I miss some of the personal forums, which are far more active on Reddit. I'd like the guitar forums to be more active, but they barely have any posts. Most have weeks or even months between posts, while Reddits have a constant flow, every minute. I keep saying that I'm going to start posting content as often as possible, but I haven't yet. Maybe I'll start this week.

reddit.com/r/%subreddit.rss

I pretty much just plugged my favorite subreddits into my rss readers of choice and never looked back (the same can be done with lemmy btw).

Edit: I believe this can also be done with 4chan, but I can no longer recall how it's done. If anybody knows please lmk.

I just deleted my Reddit account, it's no good to me since they banned my account for "Abusing the report button" and wouldn't unban it no matter how many appeals I sent in. Part of me thought, maybe they'd unban it some day, but... naw... better to just walk away

I hope it goes the way of YTMND and becomes a distant memory. Although with YTMND my memories are at least pleasant.

I just hope someday the "Niche Interest" sublemmies become more active

I only use Lemmy. Not because I’m hardcore about the fediverse or anything, but because I wanted to start moving off all major social media. Now I rarely engage with any social media and I think it’s done wonders for my mental health.

I use Lemmy 99.999% of the time. I asked a plumbing question on Reddit, some radio questions a few months back, and that's really all I can remember. I don't browse it. I don't avoid it if search results go there though. But I don't seek it out often at all.

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.

Joined when Boost for reddit stopped working for me a couple of months ago. Now I check the new here and open reddit when I'm just doom scrolling.

I don’t have any mainstream media accounts and I’m pretty happy with that choice.

Although honestly I feel like Lemmy is feeling a lot like second Reddit recently and I’m pretty sad about this. See: dozens and dozens of low effort moth memes on feed now.