Cuz the comments throught Lemmy/Piefed seems to indicate that literally every user on here is a FOSS/Dencentralization Purist and has 100% abandoned mainstream platforms.
I wonder if this is actually true or just a small minority of users being overrepresented.
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.
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.
tumblr
Youtube,
Otherwise, No. No FB, no insta, no reddit, no shitter
Does linkedin count? Lol
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.
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 guess I still use Bluesky?
Issue for me with social media is it feels like such an awful chore. I don’t understand how people basically live on a platform.
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.
Unless you count old Reddit as “mainstream”, I never did.
Even if I have to deal with pissed-off people because I “still didn’t join them on facebook”.
Not in last 9 years.
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
No but I barely used it in the first place.
Just this and Substack for me!
I barely use Facebook like once a week maybe for 10 mins, and sometimes I’ll click a Reddit link. Also check LinkedIn 1-2 times a month
