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

Lumeinshin · 2023-07-08T11:40:21+00:00

Do you use the main social medias, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter etc? Have you found your usage of the platforms to be better or worse lately? Are there any alt-...

Gladius

Lumeinshin
I still use twitter and I picked up bluesky, in the hopes of keeping in touch with all the cool jp artists I like.

Midwest

My social media usage is rather minimal. I was just talking to a coworker and she was surprised I didn't have a Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. I've never been a fan of those specific social media sites where you essentially have to be a public person (hence why I'm here). I only have a Discord because I found a stock group that signals buy/sell alerts but the mod wants to keep it private (don't tell him I mentioned the group here!) I tried using Twitter a few times but I really just don't get the appeal. Maybe I'm not the target audience.

I am enjoying this new site for artists called Cara.
Basically it looks like it wants to be 2000s deviantART and Artstation with a heavy emphasis on the human side of art (very anti-AI, building up communities, that sorta thing). I like the idea of the Fediverse and used it a couple times, but again, same problem with Twitter, it just wasn't really for me. I liked the fact that tumblr made blogging relatively easy - although obviously the biggest drawback was its userbase. So if someone were to come along and make a better, fragmented clone of tumblr that'd be pretty cool in my book.

FranciscoFranco

The social media platform I care the most about is Spotify lol. Other than that I use instagram on the browser to check the eventual DM´s and consume some brainrot now and then. I recently started using twitter to lurk on the Chud side of said platform and save some high IQ or interesting posts

fuck

I browse some specific, smaller subreddits via libreddit and watch youtube. I don't think im able to phase out reddit completely but i have vastly limited how much i use it

Gauze

Social media has changed so much since the early 2010's, as well as the general attitude though maybe it's because I was younger then. I've begun to use it significantly less as opposed to actively participating beyond reposting and saving art I like on twitter and instagram.

marc

None. Just discord to keep contact with some friends... Whatsapp cause people irl wanna message me somehow.

Kauli

I have instagram and twitter just so i can open it up to distract myself
Y'know, those moments where you are at a bus stop, and you don't want to look like a maniac staring at the pole on the other side of the road
So you put some music on and scroll to seem like you are a human.

Vesti

Instagram,Tik-Tok, Discord,Youtube, X (Twitter) and Tumblr.

Almost all of them, except Tumblr, I use too much. I usually go through the loop of deleting then redownloading due to FOMO. I don't have friends except IRL ones on Discord. There is no particular reason why I use the applications other than boredom beyond measure.

I would indulge in my hobbies, however, training my attention span to get used to more quiet, focused moments rather than constant-scrolling and self-indulgent content that's being pushed to me feels far too difficult. I'm slowly trying to make the move to forums though.

Phantasia

I am an active Twitter, Discord, and Youtube user. I used Tumblr on and off and I also watch twitch streams in the background when I'm lonely.

Phenazepam

I use YouTube, although I wouldn't call that social media at this point it's more akin to just TV 2.0 at with how disconnected and large most channels are from users and with smaller channels usually using other platforms to engage socially. Discord and Twitter are what I tend to use most frequently, with the former being the most dominant of the two. Twitter I'm just basically a lurker now, looking at artists and that sort of stuff. I've engaged in Twitter socially in the past, with success in making friends but beyond that it really is a horrible site that will drain time and channel you mentally into presenting yourself as some sort of aesthetic package to signal to others desperately, in turn causing you to be less sincere and subsumed by said aesthetic.

music liker

I've been on Tumblr for quite a while. Discord has kind of gotten shit so I'm not currently active there. I post on a lot of altchans as well, but I don't know if those count.

sanner

music liker why don't you like using discord anymore? not here to defend the platform or anything i'm just curious why you want to move away from it.

music liker

sanner
it's gone downhill since some of the recent updates, they're trying to be more like a social media instead of a messaging client. additionally, a lot of my online friends have derezzed, and the environment can be pretty toxic sometimes

erikhoudini

I really only use Discord, I have an IG but never update it. Was a late adopter to Discord (2022) and don't like it much. Too centralized. What used to be a website is now a discord server. Still, doesn't look like it's going anywhere. Removing myself from social media was a great choice.

Nickname

I have a deep personal gripe with Discord because it greatly contributed to the death of the forum as a medium of cataloguing niche information. It's so absurd that I'm now forced to join to a Discord server to find solutions for my niche problems or partake in a subculture. There used to be a time not too long ago when these things were one search engine away from being found. Relying on online chat rooms that cannot be indexed by search engines is such a pain in the ass to deal with. Chatrooms and social media in general are just not a great medium to catalogue knowledge due to its ephemeral nature. It's super retarded.

I used to go around the Fediverse on and off for two years but I deleted all of my accounts from different instances. I find it extremely circlejerky at times and if I really have to interact with the medium again, I have to build my own private instance which I don't have the time, luxury, nor expertise to do so. I'm also trying to ween off my 4chan usage as it eats most of my time online. I blame Kuroba-ex lel

philtheePEASANT

I lurk on 4chan & Newgrounds on occasion. Sometimes I scroll Twitter or Reddit for memes. And I rot my ass on Youtube.

I don't really post anything or talk to anyone. I drop funny comments here and there but otherwise, nothing. I'm an internet vagabond, No place online really feels like home. That's why I like this here forum, It's chill, cozy, slow-paced. Newgrounds fits the bill as well, if I actually make content It'd be perfect.

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