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.
This is literally my only social.media. i have a discord but mainly use it for tech forums. I ditched meta completely a couple.years ago ad it has been one of the best decisions ive ever made. I did it when i was getting sober because i recognized that it was an addiction and hated the way it made me feel. Never had a shitter or anything. I technically have a youtube but i only use it for posting the occassional video for joy.
Besides YouTube, I only really used Reddit in the last years. Since the API change I basically switched over to Lemmy. About once a month I browse one of like 3 subreddits for a few minutes, but that’s it.
I’m glad I deleted my Facebook account years ago and never really got into Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and all that shit.
So basically just YouTube now.
Not much, but I leave a site more so because I felt the experience became obnoxious at some point for each specific site. I didn’t want to be there anyways even before any other reason gets a chance to set in. I have very low tolerance for corporate / conservative fuckery.
I still use YouTube but my subs aren’t toxic it’s mostly just educational material and retro/modern tech channels. Zero politics. Adblock, Sponsorblock, Tweaks for YT.
I still use Twitch but only for old core variety streamers such as Vinesauce, Jerma, PMW. I adblock and don’t sub.
That’s it now for “mainstream.”
Just YouTube, but I only watch and don’t comment or use it as social media.
I watch a video on YouTube every now and then, mostly when someone sends me something.
LinkedIn exists but it has not been updated in some years.
It had to get really, really, awfully, embarrassingly bad for me to leave Facebook. But it really was, and a few years ago I did. If Facebook was only half as awful as it is, I would probably still be on it.
And the sneaking suspicion that every social media site will eventually devolve into Facebook has kept me from joining any more.
I still use Youtube for videos on how to do DIY home projects and repairs, but I don’t consider that social media. To me, “social media” is not “an app that distributes content”. I would say “social media” has the user’s real name on it and is for the purpose of interacting with friends and family, and meeting new people. That’s definitely not what I use Youtube for.
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.
The stupidity in Facebook boggles me. Where are these people coming from?
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.
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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.
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.
Youtube,
Otherwise, No. No FB, no insta, no reddit, no shitter
Does linkedin count? Lol
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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.
