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.
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What is the “cutoff” for mainstream? How far do you stretch the definition of “social media”?
Mainstream… Something you hear about a lot and you can walk down the street and chances are, someone will be on it.
Social media… I mean anything that you can do social things as a main fuction of it…
So game chats are excluded since games are the primary function.
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.
Agreed.
I also find it funny how you (mostly) read about (F)OSS purists here but readily engage in using Chromium based browsers like Brave.Like…why?? You (not you OP :p) can’t preach about FOSS but also use Brave in the same contexts.
using social media is just assumed. like driving a car, having a job, watching tv, etc. it’s just background assumption, and if you don’t use it, you’re weird.
but there are vastly different ways and volumes in which people use it. i have most only ever used it for community/volunteer stuff. i only used it personally like 10 years ago back when it was just pictures my friends and I posted. I stopped using it in 2021 or so after it got enshittified and became nothing but advertising and porn in my feeds and my friends photos took scrolling for 5m to find.
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.
What do you use premium for? I used to have it a long time ago until ad block made it unneeded.
PS Trump is an orangutan
PS Trump is an orangutan
Y’all always have to be “on” don’t you?
I was just making a joke on your comment
without anyone bringing up Trump in the comments.
Fair enough, but I’m a hair’s breadth away from deleting my account here and never coming back. Apologies if you’ve read my spiel before. I post it a lot only because I think it ends up being relevant a lot. Anyway, Most people, myself included, join the fediverse for ideological reasons. I’d wager most of us are anti-corporate, or at least don’t trust Google or
Facebooksorry Meta 🙄, and Reddit, et al.But just because I’m here for ideological reasons doesn’t mean I want to talk about nothing else. But every community is either soaking in politics, see my pics above, or empty. Even Anne Frank wrote about other stuff in her diary every now and then, so I don’t buy the “everything’s on fire so we should work it into every discussion” argument.
Reddit used to have a somewhat similar problem, in that it attracted a very specific type of user (neckbeards), and the experience was less fun if you weren’t one, but Lemmy seems so much more obnoxious in this regard, and I can’t fathom how it could get better.
You probably already know this, but there are other smaller instances that have way better “local” feed stuff because all of the main politics and shit posting are already on the big ones, like world.
Sorry for being annoying with my joke
I’ve been using SmartTube on a Firestick and it’s great. Not only does it get rid of the YouTube commercials, it can also get rid of the “…and that’s why I use SquareSpace” type stuff.
Yes this is perfect. With YouTube history disabled so you don’t see recommendations at all. Just subscriptions, ‘watch later’ list, and non-personalized post-video recommendations on some devices.
Its not worth it. Try freetube.
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.
Quit using fb years back, maybe five? Have checked it twice to message people i’ve no other contacts for.
I’ve used reddit maybe a half dozen times since moving to fediverse during the 3rd party app exodus. Each time to find a specific niche thing, often to no avail.
So i’d say honestly no, but i never like social media much to begin with.
Only on this (about an hour a day) and on LinkedIn (2-5 hours a week, depending on trade show) and left everything else in 2014. This millennial growing up with is all since 90s chat room, I got tired of it and saw the writing on the wall. Glad I left when I did but do miss the times on the old internet.
Does Youtube count as MSM?
Nope. Got off all of it in 2017 and I’ve never looked back
Same,in 2013.
Decentralisation purist here.
Yes but i use it a lot less since joining the fediverse exoect Youtube
Nope just fedi and tildeverse don’t miss anything.
I have discord but I only use it to talk to a relative who doesn’t like traditional texting and because some of the help guides for mods are solely on discord.
I had an Instagram and a Facebook years ago and deleted them. Recently I realized I was missing out on updates, information, and job postings related to both my job and my hobbies that are only posted on mainstream social media, so I made an Instagram that so far has zero posts, not even a profile picture, and I don’t have it installed on my phone, only on a tablet that stays at home and doesn’t have personal info stored on it. I’m still missing out on a lot that’s only posted on Facebook but the amount of dread I have when I think about going back into that cesspool has so far kept me away.
🙋♂️
Does Tumblr count as mainstream?
If this is mainstream then, yes.
