Reddit

13 or 14 years here. I didn’t delete my account but I don’t even want to give them the traffic from going back to see my join date.

I would imagine the 10+ demographic has the highest rates of attrition. Those people will have witnessed most of the transition from niche to lowest common denominator. Everyone knows the adage that 100k is the subreddit limit after which the community breaks down. It would happen here too. The discourse here is uncannily like the 2009 Reddit I remember. People are polite and well informed. I hope the localised and open nature of the service keeps it that way.

Prediction: Reddit will become a cesspit of advertising and data harvesting, a la Facebook. It's most of the way there already.

Same here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.

Would have been 12 years this month. I left when they pulled that crap with Christian (Apollo), he’s a friend IRL and I support him 100%.

14 years with an account. A year or so of lurking before that.

Sites come and go.

I like telling stories of the olden days of the internet. Like being user #132 on mp3.com and having chats with people like Darude (before sandstorm) and Dido (before Eminem). It was an amazing place. Now it isn't.

Reddit will follow.

As they all do

16yrs My account was older than my kid. It feels like some weird breakup. At times I miss it but I feel better for moving on. Lemmy feels like early reddit did so I'm hopeful that the community will continue to grow.

I've been using Reddit since 2012, as soon as the fiasco with third party apps began I started to move to Lemmy.

Haven't looked back once.

here! deleted my account right after I read the thread from Christian Selig how his answers where twisted beyond recognition by that greedy dipshit spez!

I have no idea why people still hang on to this platform or even want to support it by being mods. I mean the reddit admins are pissing on them without even giving them the courtesy of calling it rain.

I was 2006 adopter when Paul Graham dropped a link to it on his website. I was there before the original programming subdomain Reddit and even before they supported picture thumbnails. I've seen its wild mutations over the years. Bacon, narwhal, Mr Splashypants, Colbert name dropping, the original video IAMAs, the jailbait fiasco, spacedicks, random celebrity users, the redesign from hell, etc etc.

I left.

It was a good site for a long time but after being on Lemmy for a while I can see a clear difference in experience and now I realize Reddit has been bad for a while. Terrible discourse, lowest common denominator posts, and falling into the trap of continuous engagement just to get the next hit of dopamine. Honestly, spez ruining the site has been good for me personally.

I'm proud of our rejection of a commercial online experience. This is the thoughtful community I want to be a part of. This feels like the Internet of the late 90s in terms of authenticity. With its revival with the Fediverse I'm hopeful that these types of communities will forever be part of our digital experience.

12 years here. The day apollo died is the day I stopped logging into reddit.

And it is really hard. That was my default go to free time app. I spent AT LEAST 4 hours A DAY on reddit for most of those 12 years.

Its hard. But on the other hand that site disgusses me now.

My account was 14 years old before I left for Lemmy. Seen a lot of stuff come and go on reddit. Lots of changes over the years and very rarely did I like them but stayed cause there was no real valid alternative. Finally heard about Lemmy during API changes and decided to pull the plug on reddit.

Reddit had been going downhill for nearly 10 years now, to be honest

I joined Reddit 13 years ago when Digg made their site unusable. I joined Lemmy 1 month ago when Reddit made their site unusable (on mobile). History repeats itself...

6 year.

I had used Reddit for probably 11-12+ years. Which is why the slow death of the site was so sad. It was one of my favorite places on the net

11 years. 760k comment karma. Nuked the lot.

I'm Spartacus.

Just looked it up: 11 years.

I was very proud of "my" sub over there (sole active mod and most consistent poster). 11K+ subscribers and personally acknowledged by the author of a recent book on the subject of our sub.

Something died in me just before and during the blackout. I haven't posted anything over there since, and of the 11K subscribers, it's possible NONE of them followed my migration to the Fediverse where I set up an equivalent "official" sublemmy.

Once you know what you know (at least for some of us), it's just not the same participating in that space any longer.

I keep an eye on the place out of respect to...something. (I feel like I cleaned the place up nicely, and really raised the level of discourse.)

I guess I was naive in the extreme to think that at least a couple of hundred of the faithful would follow me over here? I don't do it for the numbers, but there is something gratifying watching your community grow.

At this writing, the new sub has double-digit followers! ;-)

In with the Digg exodus, out when I learned my favorite 3rd party app was shutting down(Sync, though I'm excited for the Lemmy version!). It's disappointing to learn Reddit's leadership views communities as their property, and their disdain for volunteer moderators and 3rd party apps.

Had just under 10 years on my current account and I used the official Reddit app the whole time...

But I just don’t support/respect/enjoy it over there anymore.

13 years on Reddit. I was part of the Great Digg Exodus... now the Great Reddit Exodus.

I deleted all my comments on Reddit, all of my posts, and then toasted my user account just before the API deadline. Not looking back.

18 years here. 'do not cite the deep magic to me...'

Other question: how active were you? I used to write about 30 comments A DAY. I easily see that Lemmy is wayy more active than Reddit and this makes using Lemmy way more fun even when the content isn't here yet.

15 years. I haven't deleted my account yet but I haven't logged in since API day. I have a redirect in place to go through a libreddit proxy in case I end up on the site through a web search or something.

I am pretty commited to never contribute to the site again and I am planning to delete my account at some point. I want to make sure that I can reliably delete my full comment history before I do that and I haven't bothered researching that yet. I am hoping that there will be a way to do it through a GPDR or CCPA request at some point rather than me having to do the work. (yeah I know there are tools but it's still an effort)

Reddit had been my greatest online addiction by far. It's kinda nice that they made it so easy to kick it. A bit like finding an unexpected out from a bad relationship. Good luck with the rest of your life Reddit!

12 years on reddit, haven't been back since end of May.

Fuck, I am getting older.

I created my account during high school, now I am 25.

To be honest, I am grateful for the journey. I found Reddit when I needed it, I was spending too much time on 9gag and wanted to find something more productive to waste my time on. Reddit was, and still is, more than that.

TwoXChromosomes and gonewildstories are two subs that literally redefined my person.

I haven't deleted my account, nor do I plan to. But, I haven't used Reddit since my birthday on June 12th. I have been into the idea of the fediverse long before I first read about it, and I am here for the long run.

For about 6 years but I shall share a story cause why not. I don't remember the exact details of how it unraveled.

So for a lot of time I had an unverified account, one that wasn't linked to any email. I just browsed as usual. Then one day my account got 'locked' and I had to verify it through a mail to unlock it. Now, I think I went ahead and tried linking it to my mail (or it might even be that I tried linking it from the very beginning but never got a confirmation mail), but I wouldn't get any mail. I tried regaining access for a while but I soon made a second account to be able to interact with the content. Now I believe some time had passed and I remembered about my first account, got determined to unlock it. I even contacted support about it. It was at that time that I noticed what went wrong. I had a typo in the mail I had provided, just one letter. That is why I never got any mail, but there still was a problem: there was no option to edit and correct the mail I had given them. I was devastated, there was no way to get that confirmation mail at this point.. unless? What if I created a new email account, one with the typo, so I could receive that mail? I did just that. Created a new google mail account for the sole purpose of getting that mail. I did it, got the mail, unblocked my account, changed the linked mail and deleted the typo-mail account.

I finally got my original account back. I continued however to use the second one, it was more up to date with my interests at the time, but I was happy I managed to solve the issue - no thanks to support.

Thanks for reading my story, have a nice day :)

11 year reddit account holder. Lemmy is so much better. Yeah, there isn't a post for every passing thought, but people are generally more kind and that matters to me.

13 years, bye. Fuck spez

👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

Ten years here. Nice to have you as company.

Stopped using reddit on mobile (Apollo orphan), now only use Memmy.

At desktop, a put Lemmy as favourite page besides the Reddit icon, so my muscle memory adapt without problem. I review the All-frontpage (top-6h) here and just specific subs there. I hope these 3-4 subs start growing here, so I stop going to reddit. It will happen, eventually.

13 years.

We built that place with OUR content. And now they want us to pay for the privilege of being there or be buried in ads? The nerve.

12 yr club here 👍

I started using Reddit in 2007ish or thereabout. I'm done. I am sick of the drama there, the direction of the platform, and the people are nicer here to boot.

10+ years, can't stand browsing it without my dark minimalist RIF. RIP

I originally joined Reddit in 2006, and became active full time after the Digg migration. My account was legally able to drive. I began using RIF somewhere during that time period, not sure exactly when, but probably over a decade ago at least.

It had been eons since I enjoyed interacting on Reddit as much as I am currently enjoying interacting with all of you on Lemmy. This has been a breath of fresh air, and I won't ever look back given the wholly unethical behavior of Steve Huffman as well as the decimation of third party applications due to the API changes. I joined Reddit when it was in its infancy, and I am happy to be here during the opening era of Lemmy.

I want to see this project become something great, and I intend to do my best to be an active member of this community so that it can thrive. I was never one for posting content on Reddit for some reason, but I think that is something I would like to change after migrating over here. I think there is useful insight I can provide to niche communities that relate to my work and personal interests, and I will try to do a better job of submitting content to further the goals of those communities when I have the time.