Ask Lemmy

Not even a little actually.

I'm well acquainted with the "I have an account for my social circle but just don't use it" version of this answer, and that's not what I mean. I genuinely never saw the appeal.

The only periods in my life where I ever held social media accounts were due to collective years of badgering and bullying by friends. I didn't get a facebook until 2017 or snapchat until I was basically about to graduate from college.

The moment I lost the social obligation I deleted those accounts with gusto and the sentiment "You know how to reach me." We all have phones and emails lol

The thing that always put me off social media more than anything, extending all the way back to the MySpace days, is how fake I would watch people I knew irl behave online. Someone could swear up and down that they hated someone's guts and wished them nothing but suffering in life... but online they'd send them friend requests and heart their little vacation posts. And that's without even going into the "personas" and curated images I'd see them project online...

I noticed myself almost fall into it once too. I uploaded two different profile pictures within a short timespan, and the one that felt a bit more staged and less like "myself" got a barrage of attention whereas me being myself was ignored. And I almost leaned into that for a couple of months before I caught myself and realized this is how personas start, and stopped trying to curate my photos for social media.

That place is not for human interaction, it's like one of those labrat drip-feeders, but for online validation. It's theater without conversation.

Just YouTube, but I only watch and don't comment or use it as social media.

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.

No, only this.

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".

I think you're seeing a loud minority honestly. People who use mainstream socials still (yes, I do) don't tend to shout about it all the time.

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.

I Just got my second Ban from Reddit in two weeks for mentioning Zionism in an inoccuous way.

Reddit has been captured.

I lurk on Reddit but no longer have an active account.

Nothing else

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.

youtube and discord but only because i cant live without those (youtube for youtubers and updates, discord for friends)

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.

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I use discord and piefed and that's it. Discord is mainstream, but I'm just in a couple small servers talking with friends.

I just don't mesh well with most social media. Mastodon and Bluesky confuse me just as much as Twitter and Facebook did.

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.

I lurk on some subreddits still. Sometimes I just want to look at pictures of orangutans or neatly organized server racks without anyone bringing up Trump in the comments.

Also if you count YouTube, I still have premium though I’m starting to wonder if it’s worth it.

No

No but I barely used it in the first place.

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.

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.

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 do not use mainstream social media. Haven't in years.

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.

I scrape reddit for things that can't be trusted to stay hosted there and put them on the Fediverse. But I don't actually use reddit.

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.