What Social Media do you use? Has that changed recently?

Nowadays the ones I mostly use are Instagram and Discord. None of the other ones were not that good for my mental health so I stopped using them. If we really count imageboards and forums as social media, then I lurk/post on a few ones as well.

Fantasy I've had the feeling that they're going to keep adding stuff behind the paywall. The recent username changes I also think are a downgrade in every way. Discriminators and the way they work is good. I think it's the best way to do usernames, not the unique way they are now. It baffles me that they stepped away from that system when it's becoming adopted more and more by other companies.

Spot on. They keep ruining their own platform with stupid ideas. How hard would it have been to add another number to the discriminator?

I use Facebook, but only for communicating with my family.

For my friends online, I use Discord (username in bio if you wanna chat lol), Twitter, and occasionally Tumblr.

Whether it be because of the userbase or the developers, I really don't care how bad things get on Facebook or Twitter or shit. I really don't feel like leaving those sites. I'm just slow to embrace new ideas. I have not, and will not make a Threads account.

Lumeinshin I am somewhat forced to use Discord to play tabletop games with my normie friends, but that's it. The only social place I am using aside messengers is Fediverse!

I'm not a social media person at all. The closest thing I've ever had to one was tinder back in my college days.
Currently I use Discord and Telegram to keep in touch with online and irl friends respective but really just as a messenger app really.

I use Fcebook but only for the messenger app. Besides that, well, I'm newly here. I used to have a mild Facebook addiction, so I had to leave any app I could scroll on. Unfortunately, I seemingly replaced scrolling on Fcebook with scrolling on 4chan. /tg/ native, /wg/ appreciator, /k/ wannabe, and /x/ in-frequenter.

I only use YouTube (and SheepishPatio is p cool too). But, in my opinion, considering YouTube a social media is a stretch. I see it more as a replacement for the TV.

I'd cut off all social media for a while, but then came the Reddit boycott and the rise of Lemmy, which got me using that (initially out of curiosity). It's great, but I still want to avoid feed-based social media, so I don't want to keep using it on a regular basis.

I have an account on a Pleroma instance and one on a Misskey instance. Although they are scroll/feed-based, if I had more friends who used them, I'd probably use them more frequently as they both offer feeds for only people whom you follow. Those aren't as bad as algorithm-based feeds (as long as you don't have too many mutuals).

As for youtube, I use the df-tube extension which removes video recommendations and the homepage, so there's no way to get lost in recommendation hell. I only watch specific videos I search for, which end up being mostly worthwhile (in theory). I do have an Odysee account, but I don't really use it that much.

At some point I was really extremist in my view of "banning all social media from my life", but then I realized that (good) social media websites, in spite of everything, are a great way to look for differing opinions and partake in mind-opening discussions, effectively preventing you from becoming narrow-minded. Of course, social media websites that purposefully act as eco-chambers offer none of that and deserve to get wiped off the internet .

Unlike may of my peers, I haven't really been one to use much social media, at least the bigger services. Most of my time was spent in discord dms with the couple of friends I had from school to play video games. I never really interacted much with many public big servers until the lockdown, and even then my involvement was only minimal, it just really wasn't my jam. I mostly just uhng out with my friends to game every week or so until they fell off the internet.
I also had a Reddit account for about a year and a half, but it was used mostly for lurking and downloading (admittedly terrible) memes. I was never really frequently on it much, I only really checked like twice a month because I would end up forgetting about it and then suddenly remembering it existed. Ive recently deleted that because I haven't touched it in ages and really I had no use for it.
If YouTube counts as social media then yeah Ive used that, but my frequency with it has dropped off HARD in the last year, of which I actually really proud because I have a lot more time on my hands now that I'm not addicted to the recommended feed.

As for alt-media, ive been enjoying the Fediverse. A friend recently got me back into it and got me through the fediblock wall. I had a mastodon account back in 2019 but never used it because it was even more boring than Reddit. Of course I ended up finding a quite comfy space and decided to host my own pleroma instance just to have a bit more fun with it.
Im also in a couple of miscellaneous group chats hosted by people I know from fedi, but its mostly low activity because its like 5-8 people in 1 room on a self-managed RocketChat.\

Other than that I haven't really touched anything else.

Lumeinshin There are a few things you can do to make discord a less dodgy place, I may do a series of blog posts detailing them, might be good to have some things like that available outside of videos.

I'd be very interested in this.

I am a lot less active nowadays on social media. I shamefully admit that I still browse Twitter and Reddit quite often, but haven't participated for a long time. If Telegram is considered mainstream, it is also something that I use to keep touch with my Twitter day friends and other than that, the only places I still occasionally participate are small forums and fedi.

Lumeinshin
I used to use reddit in the past, when it was less corporate. Currently, I prefer to use niche websites like this one, IRC servers, HN/lobste.rs, image boards, and occasionally the fediverse for a more enjoyable long-term experience.
Nevertheless, my overall time spent on the wired has considerably decreased.

I do have Instagram and Twitter, but I've started using them less and less over time. Not like I posted much anyway, but my consumption has moved from those platforms to forums and decentralized platforms.
Honestly I'm glad I'm stepping away from mainstream social media. Sure, I'll still keep my accounts on them for my IRL friends to send me stuff or to see how some of them are doing, but again, I barely even open them.
I hope this new "revolution" gets more people into decentralized platforms and more people off meta/X corp/whatever other company is trying to monetize absolutely everything to a ridiculous point

The modern internet has been ruined. Everything has unfortunately been converged to big tech which has essentially a monopoly over the technology. I guess that's why I joined a this site, it's a lot more reserved and nice. Definitely feels a bit more personal and less soulless, owner seems like a nice guy too.

Hey friends, long time no see. I never really got into social media when I was young and don't use any of the centralized ones like X, Facebook, etc...

I guess I used to shitpost on Reddit but that place just grew increasingly shitty so I left it for good

The only real social media I use is probably Pleroma. I've tried making sort of a different version of Lemmy with some friends as well and we have a lot of functionality so far (and apub integration working) but my frontend dev friend has gone AWOL and it's really hard for me to make any progress with the project as I suck at frontend shit and web design

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Oh absolutely, I wish the internet returned to the days where it was full of small communities and less centralized. I'm glad that places like this still exist