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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.
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.
12 years. Was thinking about leaving when they announce the api death blow. Actually decided to leave when i saw how reddit admins blatently lied about the apollo dev situation.
Awards? Never saw those on my 2015 version of baconreader app. Couldn't care less.
12 years, fuck em. this is my go-to scroll for when I'm bored now. The communities will grow in time.
7 years, 1st lemmy post. Hi everybody!
Ten years and 150k comment karma.
Thirteenish years on Reddit. Won’t go back.
Did place to put fuck spez and join Lemmy…. Made stickers after that can hopefully get people to look into Lemmy.
We’ll see what happens.
11 years. And, honestly I'm kinda grateful. It was time, regardless of the drama, and an unhealthy amount of my screen-existence was being eaten up by it. There seemed to be a slow, insidious change that I was probably sheltered from by keeping to old-reddit, but even then, the whole spez-API-drama wasn't so much of a shock, but more the final nail in the coffin that reddit is, with no doubt, now a full on corporate for-profit website just like any of the other social media giants, and will continue to act more and more like them. I'll admit I didn't delete my account, just the app, and I still check back in every few days to peek in to a few more niche subreddits that there just isn't any replacement for elsewhere (yet), but spending my time elsewhere has been refreshing.
15 year ex redditor. The place is a dumpster fire 🔥 so nice to be here.
14 years redditor here.
I kept my account and still (rarely) interact with some niche subs. The bulk of my social activity is here now, and if these niche topics were represented on the Fediverse, I'd gladly move on.
So I guess, to Reddit, I don't look like I'm truly gone since my account is still active somewhat. But my level of engagement has dramatically fallen.
Props to y'all, I have no clue when I started. I had one account, then I lost it because I forgot about it and made another one year or two later. And then another one cuz I wanted it to be linked to my user name in one of my games.
All I remember was that I quit that game after 5+ years of playing, and I had account 1-2 years prior. And that quitting date was somewhere in 2019, so that's like 2014ish or so, I guess I might have been a Redditor for almost 10+/- years.
But yeah, since the blackout. I've been browsing Lemmy and Mastodon whenever Lemmy goes down. No regret, I've been enjoying the new experience and it got me to browse a bit less than usual due to less content overall but still it's positive.
Rooting hard for fediverse to go off!
I was also part of the great Digg exodus. It's funny how history repeats.
17 years. Deleted all posts and comments and I avoid it unless I google something and there's something relevant
Created my account in Oct. 2011 after a long time of just lurking. Leaving reddit feels weird, sad but also right, like a breakup that was long overdue.
11 years for me, mostly lurking. Happy to move away as it has declined heavily in the last half decade. Lemmy is such a breath of fresh air! I would love to see a continued mass exodus.
10 years last July almost 400k karma. I'd like to say I left for all sorts of noble reasons to do with awards or API, but mostly I just left because Lemmy is a nicer space to hang out in and reminds me of my early days on the internet with BBSs and the like. On Reddit as an older woman we are constantly made aware it's not a space where we are really wanted, though there are a lot more of us on there in our own little niches than I think a lot of younger male users realise. So I'm here hoping Lemmy will continue to feel more open to everyone, and if it doesn't hell I'll start a server for us old farts.
12 years this month. Left with the 3rd party apps. Might have stayed for some niche communities, but just happened to get suspended while nuking my comment history, appealed, and got permabanned as a response... so Reddit made the final choice for me.
I’m one of those c/nfl mods and 12+ redditors that has moved on. I know Reddit probably has some life in it still, but the quality of the communities is going to go down. Decentralization serves users best.
This guy
Almost 12 years for me. Used Baconreader then Sync. Supported the protests in June, and bailed in July when they cut API access. Lemmy gives me what I need in an online community, without the aggression and toxicity that took over Reddit. I feel like I have gained back time to study/ read etc that I used to spend doom-scrolling.
It's been 12+ years for me.
I haven't left completely, as there a a few subreddits that are important for me for either work or hobbies, but I only browse those now and don't go to the front page or out of specific purpose driven communities that don't have active equivalents on Lemmy. My time on reddit is down to a fraction of what it was prior to June, and I hope I can drop it altogether at some point as more communities grow here.
12 years this month, now gone for good.
It’s freeing in a way, reddit had become so user-hostile, and I only used it because of the beautiful third party apps out there. It’s astonishing just how slow, ugly, inconvenient, and buggy they have been making the UI over time.
Same username on reddit. Just over 10 years myself on that account plus another 2 or 3 with a prior account. Really enjoying Lemmy and like everyone has said already, it honestly does feel like reddit from 10 years ago. I had stopped using reddit much at all but I’m on Lemmy nearly every day like I used to be with reddit years ago.
I think I'm about to hit the 15 year mark there. Still visit from time to time and probably will until the niche communities I like there are all replicated there but I'm already habituated to clicking Lemmy rather than Reddit when I'm bored.
I won't miss it, it has already been a shell of its former self for years. The community is still fine but always getting more mainstream. The UI is horrendous though, especially on a desktop browser with all the mouseovers always getting in your way to show you some useless profile pic of a user or sub. Won't miss that for a second.
Part of the Digg Exodus, and now part of the Reddit Exodus. I was on Reddit before the Digg collapse but rarely.
13 years, never looked back. I like Lemmy though! Feels like the start of the internet.
13 year club. I only hopped on one time since the blackout when I got a notification on my Joey client about them discontinuing gold. Just went around and awarded all mine to old comments. The dev of Joey said it was shutdown so I was surprised it worked still.
I've been on Reddit for 10 years and now I use Reddit very rarely (only when I feel like a community on Reddit is the only place for me to get info about a specific thing). Now I frequent Lemmy (and Kbin) instead for news, discussions and memes.
I haven't "left" completely; there are niche communities there that I will continue to follow for awhile, until I find that content elsewhere.
But I guarantee that those communities aren't making any money for reddit.
I did cancel my Premium subscription.
Yo. Wasn't ever terribly active, but the reaction to the recent protest, both in CEO/admin response and some comments, made me realize the site wasn't what it was when I first joined and that I don't mesh with it anymore. I'll miss the active niche subs I followed, but starting fresh with an alternative like here has been great.
12 yr here, but my shameful confession is my porn account on Reddit lurks like normal. At least they don't get ad revenue from it!
10 years overall for me. I still browse some niche subreddits by RSS only and no longer comment or vote.
11 years here. No intention of going back.
Redditor since 2008. Only time I end up there now is if a search result points me to an old post.
Replaced all my posts and comments using power suite.
Didn’t delete the account but removed any value