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.
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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.
Just YouTube, but I only watch and don't comment or use it as social media.
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."
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?
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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.
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
No
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.
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 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".
my favorite is people wnat you to join them on some app. whatsapp, signal, etc. and you say you don't use apps and they ask you why you are such a dick.
because i use my phone as a phone dude.
I actually quit a volunter org because they demaded we all have slack on our phones so we could 'be available to cover for each other'. And I just flat out refused and they all got super upset with me, so I just quit. basically gen z people had joined and they refuse to use phone calls or texts to communicate. everything is slack/discord or some other group chat app.
The salt is high on ppl using third option apps. I have sms and if that won't work I guess we won't talk.
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.
Not in last 9 years.
youtube and discord but only because i cant live without those (youtube for youtubers and updates, discord for friends)
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
I lurk on Reddit but no longer have an active account.
Nothing else
I have FB for marketplace a couple times a year, I don't install the app unless I'm buying something.
I watch a LOT of educational YouTube, and some tech news on there, using GrayJay.
Otherwise, this is it.
Used to have insta years ago.
I guess I technically have Marco Polo, but it's literally my immediate family only 🤷♂️ and that's more chat app than social media.
Edit: oh and discord for the couple of friends who use it. Plus I'm on a couple of servers for my hobbies, very specific, I hardly look at them unless I'm active in a given hobby at that moment.
I have a business profile on Instagram. I haven't used mainstream social media for personal reasons since 2008 or something like that.
the fediverse platforms i use are Lemmy, Mastodon, and PeerTube
i dont use any nonfree social media but am active on Discord (which is social media adjacent, being a chatroom platform)
i also watch Youtube videos (through Invidious) and occasionally browse Reddit meme communities but i dont have accounts on those
and i havent abandoned any mainstream platforms, i never used them, was never allowed to by parents (and never wanted to because i was properly educated about online privacy) (the reason i have discord is a dnd group)
i went down the libre software pipeline due to autism and my first pc running linux (my dad is a tech person), ive only ever had linux computers and a macbook (not counting mobile devices tho; i have an iphone and plan to replace it with a linux phone)
Just this and Substack for me!
I do not use mainstream social media. Haven't in years.
I have a facebook account for work, but I only login every few months and only sandboxed with Firefox. Otherwise, no. Never had a twitter account and I ditched reddit during the api change.
I still have a Facebook account, but I refuse to even look at my feed. I don't really want to know what most of my family is up to, however Marketplace, sadly, is better than Craigslist ever was.
Still have my old YouTube account, but I rarely look at it.
No Gram/Twitter/LinkedIn Permabanned from the mainstream link aggregator what feels like forever ago
Don't remember my Tumblr login
This is it for me.
Must feel liberating ❤️
Never have. Was always a stupid idea. Annonymous or don't bother.
I have been in communities and chatting since the bbs days. So it's not like I am adverse to it.
But lately I see people saying, I can't quit Instagram or Facebook, it's where my friends are.
I am beginning to basically wonder: do you really want to be friends with people who directly support billionaires and fascism and propaganda? You are directly paying for that by participating. I am starting to cut people out of my life who won't leave. I've had enough.
As someone who grew up before the internet was adopted, then got into Angelfire/Geocities “about me” pages, early MySpace & Facebook; it wasn’t a stupid idea. The early years were amazing because suddenly we were in touch with people all over the world, friends half forgotten, and artists. MySpace and then Facebook was a game changer for booking bands if you were a small venue or house and for tour managers of indie bands in the early 00s. I booked and wrote for a print zine back then and got to book some phenomenal shows and interview some bands I probably never would have if it weren’t for the ease of what social media created. But it had a price. By the ‘10s I noticed the need to look DIY or like one was participating through curated “likes”, posts, or pictures was more important than actually participating. Then it just became shit. I still have an Insta for my dogs because it remains a decent platform for networking with dog rescues and volunteers across country (I wish someone with the tech skill would develop something exclusive for us to use for that), but otherwise it’s become garbage. But for a while it was as revolutionary as the telegraph or telephone for people who’d never been able to connect with others in that manner. Then, like robocalls and telemarketers, the corporate assholes found a way to exploit a fundamental human desire- to connect with other humans.
But it had a price.
Yeah, thats the thing. I could see it coming a mile away. We already were talking to people all around the world, we already had ways of sending ideas and conversations. We already met people and went to shows and traveled the world.
But we didn't hand over all our personal information to a corporation, and that's when you knew there was going to be a problem.
So yeah, it always was a bad idea.
And I get you think having instagram is still a good idea. But it isnt. They are actively making your life worse. A single new meta datacenter will displace 3x the size of New Yorks golden gate park and require 3 new gas plants to power it. All to make AI to generate more content to keep people around and harvest data, and push propaganda.
People got along without this shit before, they can get along without it now. People need to connect more locally anyways. It is hard to leave because others are making it hard to leave. So who will break the cycle?
And I get you think having instagram is still a good idea. But it isnt. They are actively making your life worse.
As I stated, I am not using it for the betterment of my life but because currently it’s the best option for networking with others who use it to help beings who don’t even know what social media is. It’d be great if we had a nonprofit platform for negotiating crosscountry transfers, volunteer coordination, and adoptions that is utilized by millions, but we don’t. My struggle is use what’s currently available to negotiate transferring one life to a better opportunity and then find them a good home, or don’t. Social media facilitated me taking in a deaf/blind dog born across the country, coordinating with volunteers who flew her to me on their own time/expense, and eventually finding a family willing and capable of meeting her needs and giving her a wonderful life. I’d love for that to be something that was possible without the hubris of social media, but presently it is not. Local connections are great and should be nurtured, but cat’s out of the bag on connecting to random people all across the world. I never would have known that pup existed, the people who did would never have known I was willing and had the capability and learned skill to work with her, the people with the time and means to transport her would never have connected and done it, and the people I eventually placed her with willing to make her a part of their lives another state over would never have connected if not for the existence of social media, as abused as it has become. My skill is dogs, I do what I can with what I’ve got full knowing it comes with a lot of shit, but it’s currently what’s available. If someone out there has the skill to create a platform for connecting us without the bastardization of the network, please break the cycle.
Dog tax. This little soul getting a happy life was worth the cost. But I do wish someone with the skills I lack would use the power of the internet to connect those of us who’d like to help others without the negatives.
There is a group in Fecesbook about the war in Ukraine and the Russia. It is the most up-to-date and best-curated information source regarding the war, so I will follow that group until the war is finally over.
There's also a Finnish group for people travelling ecologically. I regularly browse questions people are posing there and if I'm the only one who knows a good answer, I write one. That group now has a sister community here on Forumverse, and any new content I want to write, I write in that comm instead of the Fecesbook group.
Otherwise I am outside all commercial social media. I do not have a google account, so I browse Youtube without login if I browse it. And typically using Tubular as my client program.
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