What social media do you use?

[Capybara]

(For the record, I don't consider IM clients, website hosts, or art sites to be social media.)

I only use Tumblr and Bluesky right now. I left Twitter 2 years ago and had a bad time on there anyway, and I was suspended from Reddit after using a VPN and can't remake accounts without getting auto-suspended. I'm not comfortable using Facebook and Instagram because it's too tied to my real life and I don't have any non-familial contacts IRL. So these are currently the only two mainstream sites I use. I'm not super social on Tumblr outside following blogs, and it's the only social media where certain mutuals are on. I'm unfortunately weirdly addicted to doomscrolling it. Bluesky I started using last spring after going to conventions, it's my one mainstream site. But I get addicted to scrolling that too. So I need to detox at some point. :(

I GUESS I also have Dreamwidth, but it's not touched as often because... Well, few people I know really use it. I should probably switch out sites at one point though, like focus on prioritizing DW for more "slow burn dopamine" or whatever. My Insanejournal and Deadjournal accounts are dead because even less people use it than Dreamwidth.

[rnottelovesowls]

i actually really hate the big social media platforms. if it weren’t for the fact that some of my friends still use instagram and discord, i would’ve deleted my accounts from them a LONG time ago

aside from discord, my preferred social networks are actually forum boards like this. i know, they don’t really count, but they feel more social and community-driven than instagram, that’s for sure. as an artist, two of the “classic”/“web revival” social platforms i want to give a try are newgrounds and sheezy.art

[GlitchWolf47]

Tumblr: By far my most active, but I mainly post art and finished pieces. i do have a shitposting blog and find webgraphics on there a lot

X/Twitter: So i used to post art on here but then I just decided not to. I bascially only have my account now for the purpose of accessing the content on the site.

Reddit: Im not TOO active on here but I use it sometimes and read posts

OTHERS:

My other social medias are all very niche (which is very much intentional)

SpaceHey: OBVI. this is like myspace revival. and i am so here for it.

Bitview/Vidlii: So I use these a lot as a kinda videoblogging but not in the traditional sesne? like I kinda just post whatever I want on there. Like I post my animations, I post minecraft gameplay, I post random video edits. i dont do this on yt tho

SheezyArt/SketchersUnited/Newgrounds: use these all in the same way as I use tumblr: Posting finished art. I interact on them when im on them but I dont really hang out on them a lot

ToyHouse/Characterhub/UnVale/Artfight: These I use all for OCs cuz that is what they are for!

A few others to mentions

Letterboxd/Last.fm: So I use these but I dont really interact with people on them. Like on letterboxd I do make movie reviews and I do occasionally listen to music on Lastfm but I dont interact on there a lot

Blips.club/Askmos (previously Queryous.me): So I used to use these a lot but I havent been very active (both are also indie small social media kinda sites).
Anyways, the general trend in my social media is that most of them are either indie social media, or mainstream social media that isnt that mainstream. I love the smaller sites cuz they are yk, SMALL, but ima say my fave place to hang out is on sites like this (and some other places too) and my own personal site and other indieweb sites. like its kinda funny, I like the whole neocities/nekoweb community and forums cuz they are explicitly NOT social media. Like things like spacehey are bitview may be small, but they ARE still social media. but with indie websites, people are only gonna visit and interact with me if they want to, and I feel like I could actually make genuine connections with people that i couldnt on social media  

Also a note: I have a feeling part of the reason I feel this way about social media is the fact that my first social media was tumblr (in 2023 i think XDDDD). Tumblr may not be completely non corporate, but its definitely smaller and more community based than other ones, and that probably contributed to my like of smaller decentralized social medias (and the indieweb)

[Dynaknights]

Sigh... okay I'm bored so let's go.

Twitter: I used to have a Twitter account to look at and follow artists whose works I enjoyed. Also the petty drama within the art community used to serve as entertainment. I eventually abandoned it in 2023-2024-ish because goddamn, that place is MISERABLE.

Instagram: I download Instagram on my phone once every three-ish months to post pictures to some friends on a private account; said friends are the only reason I have Instagram because I don't have their numbers or anything. I stopped using it for anything else a year ago because I got sick of the pointlessness of it. Also because Meta is scummy and Instagram's userbase is a wretched, foul thing.

TikTok: Sigh... I used TikTok a lot during COVID-19 when I had nothing else to do. I'm not proud of it, but TikTok felt like another Tumblr or AO3 to tween-aged me; fandom-y and filled with cool-looking outcasts, if that makes sense. I also used it as a news source... I eventually began to get sick of using it as I got older since I had better things to do with my life and kept getting angry whenever I'd remember the hours I'd lost to doomscrolling away, and the lack of catharsis I felt after scrolling, and the hopelessness I'd feel, and the growing toxicity of its userbase. I saw Superman (2025) in theaters a year ago and felt inspired enough to free myself from both it and Instagram. My only regret is that I didn't delete it sooner. 

Tumblr: TUMBLR... :'( Our relationship didn't work out in the end. I was a Tumblr fiend when I was a tween; I remember browsing it for hours upon hours reading writing prompts (mostly hero x villain to insert my OCs in stories... and whump, for some reason??) that were in like, a sixteen-part series and fan-fiction, of course. The stuff in my Tumblr Likes stays between me and any omnipresent deities.
I remember my Tumblr usage slowly turned into me using it purely for website assets and webmastery tips when I was fifteen. I would just click around, looking for fun-looking stamps, blinkies, buttons, patterns, or other files and then right-click + save everything to a folder on my computer. What a time... Never posted anything because I was too shy though. RIP. </3

Pinterest: I used to use it for drawing references, profile pictures, and phone wallpapers. I also used to use it to assist with worldbuilding; sometimes I had certain 'vibes' in my head for aspects of a story I couldn't really articulate, so I used Pinterest boards to get a better idea. Also to help with character living spaces and outfits... My room has looked like an asylum for as long as I can remember and I have a horrible fashion sense. I don't use Pinterest for much beyond looking through old boards and searching for profile pictures now; feels too aimless, I suppose. ',:/

I only really use Discord (because my friends have Discord) and YouTube to listen to music and play Vinesauce VODs in the background exclusively on my computer with the Recommendations page, YouTube Shorts, and ads removed via Firefox extensions. I found them annoying to look at.

[WhiteFelineWonder]

Chose "other", lemme list em:

Newgrounds: I post the drawings I make there as well as anything I make with Ultrabox, and other things.

Furaffinity: Recently joined this site back in like, mid-May since I felt lonely using just Newgrounds. And all things considered, this is the only other viable (in my opinion) site to be on (Main thing I was wondering before I joined was if tag blacklisting works (which does)).

Status Cafe: Needed some place so I can just babble about stuff. Stuff like Bluesky and Twitter just ain't it for me and I'd rather have peace of mind without worrying about whatever replies may come from somebody else.

Gamebanana: I just have this to like mods for stuff like Sonic 3 and SM64 Coop DX & such.

I'm also on Stoat, too (formerly known as Revolt), in case Discord gives me the boot for using Vencord and Aliucord. (Seriously vanilla Discord is absolutely abysmal to use and I get tired of it constantly saying "hey get Nitro and you can have all this!" over and over.)

There's also Sudomemo, which is the revived version of the 'ol Flipnote Hatena, but I haven't really had any ideas for flipnotes there so it's just kinda.... stagnant. Unless I decide to get an idea later down the line.