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Reddit killed third party apps, and so they killed my engagement with them. Why go back?

Trying to but its hard. But I'm only on reddit when i really have to throught the browser. I try to minimize my traffic there.

I'd love to only use lemmy, but there aren't enough posts. I use lemmy for 2 days in a row, then reddit for 2-3 days in a row, repeat.

Only Lemmy.

Im IP banned from Reddit though. Still wouldn’t ever go back.

It's a very quick way to end up in an echo chamber, Lemmy is a very niche platform. I try to keep up with Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon. Not a huge amount better, but it's a bit more variety than one tiny service.

I'm only on Lemmy (and other Fediverse sites). And I guess I ramble and post photos on Tumblr (but I think they're working on ActivityPub support too?)

I only occasionally pick up random Reddit threads on web searches (and even those seem few and far between these days), and I'm definitely not posting there anymore.

I only use Lemmy except if I want to see some hot F1 gossip, in which case I'm back to /r/formula1

Only Lemmy.

Well i do use youtube but other than that i basically only use non-mainstream social media. I also use snapchat but only for messaging.

I only use Lemmy

I use only Lemmy. It was easy for me since I pretty much only used Reddit until the mass exodus happened about a year ago and then shortly after they killed the RiF app for Android and I lost the way that I consumed Reddit 95% of the time so I transitioned to using Lemmy full time. I didn't have much of a choice unless I used PC to access Reddit, which I will still do from time to time for niche subjects, but I avoid posting.

I've never had any other "traditional" social media accounts. Call me a hipster, but I thought that shit was lame when people were constantly asking about adding me on MySpace or Facebook and just never bothered to jump on the bandwagon. Eventually, when it came out that those places were cesspools run by unethical hacks I avoided ever signing up intentionally and thanked my lucky stars that I was a grumpy and rebellious contrarian in my youth. I think I was forced to make a Facebook account to use my Oculus VR headset, but I put in as little factual information as I could get away with and never interacted with their terrible algorithm.

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.

I’m off Facebook because they ban you for picking on racists now. I’m off Reddit as well. I barely go there on mobile but catch myself there on desktop if I’m researching something.

I only use Lemmy and Piefed.

Occasionally I'll hit up a reddit result if I'm doing a search looking for an answer to a specific question. But I never browse it since the 3rd party apps stopped working.

Well, I'm permanently banned from Reddit, so....here I am!

Depends on your definition of social media I guess.

I'm only on Lemmy and deleted my reddit accounts

I realized sometime in the last year that Lemmy provided me all the usual community groups I needed and actually content I wanted to read (I never really used Reddit to just browse, outside of the sub.s I'd joined).

And I've been using Mastodon since, like 2020 or something (never was a fan of Twitter, though).

Also stopped using Facebook though that's probably more due to burnout and falling out of touch with a lot of the people in my life. Facebook really did make navigating socializing and keeping in touch both easier and less energy intensive and it is, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage™ that people seem to emotionally brand such a large classification as. Shame about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also always going to end up as shit – in the end –, so long as owned by a corporation); since I'd already dropped in using it, I just opted to stay stopped.

Still use YouTube as there isn't a real viable alternative yet; itching for the day they're is.

And still use Tumblr, as most of those I socialize with are on there; though it has built up plenty of its own enshittification over the last few years. If I ever finish my Fediverse clone of it, that's where I'll be sprinting to.

Seeing how this post has 600 replies and I see a lot of activity in the past 6 months I feel Lemmy is doing pretty well as a reddit alternative.

I certainly don't miss the amount of shitposting that reddit had. Literally every first post was some dumb joke that didn't even made me chuckle..

Lemmy only. Actually, I just can't stand the corpoverse, it's litterally painful for me to browse. The only exception so far is instagram because it's dopamine gold and you can discover a lot of things, but this is less and less true. And with voyager integrating pixelfed in upcoming updates... well i'll just migrate

Lemmy only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.

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).

The only social media I really use is Lemmy. I have instagram strictly because that’s where my sibling’s meme group chat is and they don’t want to move. I don’t use it for anything else.

Used to use RiF, stopped when the api bullshit went down and all I use are lemmy and Facebook now.

I never post or browse Reddit anymore, but I'll still look at Reddit search results. There's just too much good information on there that you just can't find elsewhere.

lemmy since 2020 and mastodon since earlier this year, I use discord a lot, and a ton of rss feeds. I occasionally check instagram because thats where my wife sends me her memes so I try to remember to get in there at least once a week. I search for reddit answers when looking for stuff like recommendations but I havent had an account for a few years now

Yup

I only use reddit anymore for the meta. It's like a zoo. Its users are scarcely self-aware. I know this is conceited but whatever.

I think lemmy being a reddit clone is rather ill-fated but at least for now people generally still post like real human beings. There's something strange about how dialog is basically an algorithm. Reddit is reached some sort of maximum where nothing you can possibly say will deviate the flow of comment sections from the pre-defined talking points. It's like they're all stuck in neurotic thought cycles.

There's a video with Trevor Noah and John Stewart where they talk about how social media is a performance. It's not a "town square" or whatever. It's not really honest in good faith dialog.

Browse reddit but only have lemmy account

Besides that , my only other socials (bluesky|tumblr)