Asklemmy

I like Mastodon, but I gotta say, Lemmy has basically taken over as my go to boredom relief app. When I’m not on Lemmy, I’m probably on YouTube.

Then there’s work: GitHub and email.

And play: Steam.

I'm still on IRC! There's a raw simplicity to it that I appreciate. You don't have to use a bloated Electron app to connect to a proprietary service, you can just go straight text on the protocol-level in terminal (if you're nuts), and the protocol is open and simple enough to understand that you can easily make your own client even if you're a lazy or mediocre dev.

So IRC, Lemmy, and I guess Instagram (if that counts)

Ever since Reddit killed itself, the only places I really lurk are Kbin (and therefore Lemmy by proxy) and Discord. That's pretty much it.

98% YouTube and 2% Lemmy

If rest of the internet dissapeared it would take a while for me to notice.

Honestly, I read more, do more gardening, play more videogames. Kinda a weird benefit, but I joined two book clubs and a walking group. Started going to a parenting group on Sundays so my kiddo and I are making more friends. I guess reddit just pissed me off enough to go out and be more in my community. It's kinda nice.

I think some of us are intentionally avoiding big tech now and try to find places online that doesn't feel completely dead soul wise.

Lemmy feels good for me, but I'm also looking for web sites where I feel connected to people.

Off the internet, on my intranet, and if possible, IRL. Most of my internet usage is checking specific YouTube channels like an RSS feed, which barely takes time or effort. Keep a tab on weekly top posts of headphones, datahoarder, piracy and VPNTorrents on Reddit. Rest is on Lemmy, trying to create engagement and moderate privacy and technology subs. Keep a monthly tab on data compression and archival. Updating my Brain.exe knowledge base is easy, passive and quick.

Truth be told, I am getting tired of the internet itself, as I get old. Always feels like I have seen it all, repetitive discussions, same comment chain jokes, tech or entertainment is no longer progressing enough for it to be worth to keep up with the snail speed. That is what happens when you are on the internet for 2 decades, during the Golden Age around 2007, post Golden Age and now into the death of the internet and its backbones. The soon to come change of international geopolitical dynamics with a split between west and rest of world, happening in parallel to distrust and disengagement with Big Tech fueling the growth of Fediverse, just means that we will no longer be a "global" community, going back to either small federated networks or our own good old walled off forum villages/kingdoms.

Hacker News, mainly.

Sometimes I log on to Reddit to help travelers to my country or hobbyists trying to learn engineering. I try to avoid discussion on Reddit as the quality is often not high, e.g. lots of tourists asking how to commit crimes in my country -- better to just not answer.

For discussion I go here, it's much more interesting.

IRC has always been pretty cool. I might go back to that one day. For now this is just the part of my life where I try to make money and don't have much time to socialize.

Reddit (only subs related to living in Japan since those didn't migrate here), kbin/lemmy, fark (though I almost never comment anymore), and an old-fashioned forum/bulletin board (more stuff related to living in Japan).

Edit: and I guess YouTube? 99% of the time, I'm watching from my TV which doesn't have comments or anything.

Primarily mastodon. Really enjoying that.

Facebook for relatives & friends from the real world.

Discord

At this point it's mainly Lemmy, Imgur, and Discord for me.

XMPP MUCs, IRC, some Matrix Spaces. Lobsters, Mastodon.

I refuse Discord. I really wish I could refuse Microsoft GitHub—source code doesn’t need to be a proprietary social media plaform.

YouTube has kicked the wasp nest by blocking Adblockers. Lots of drama over there

Since leaving reddit with the migration, I'm now on Kbin, tumblr, Tildes, and playing somewhat more regularly on Subeta and Dappervolk.

If it counts, I know a lot of people hang out on VR chat. It's a very common misnomer that you need a VR to run the platform, most of my friends don't even bother being in VR they just use it in desktop mode. I expect you probably meant more text-based, but I wanted to throw that on the board as well

I only hang out here, been spending way less time browsing online, which I'd say is a good thing. Been playing more video games, and even reading.

Also I'm curious about Discord, when people say they hang out there, do they just find a channel they like and keep up with the chat all day?

Reddit for niche topics, Imgur for weird and funny.

My routine is, in this order, Lemmy, Mastodon, Tumblr

I still use Instagram to keep up and chat with friends and Facebook only because my kid's school only posts there

Twitter and BlueSky. Shifting more so to the latter the worse the former gets.

Forums. Those of interests that interest me, specific games forums, OS forums, comic book forums, forums.

Lemmy is just a weird poorly-designed forum I also read.

TV Tropes is absolutely packed if you ever want to join.

Discord and the osrs grand exchange w390 or dustbowl tf2

This is it. And board game geek. And discord.

Even though I'm technically not hanging out with people, I like to occasionally look through some of the different sites on Neocities to see what cool things people have made.

According to my Android phone:

Sync for Lemmy in second or first place most of the time, same for Telegram.

A bit of Discord and Sync for Reddit too.

Firefox random searches.

A bit of Meta apps (almost zero use of Instagram, but it vary with Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger, usually FB is the winner).

Feeder and Feedly at the very last (I get my tech news right here).

YouTube I use it a lot, not on mobile but my Shield TV

The only other forum I participate in is Arstecknica.