Reddit

No, I'm Spartacus!

I was heading towards my 12 cake day, I think a lot of us who have moved to lemmy remember leaving digg so it might it easier for us.

11 years. I commented a lot and had a decent trickle of reasonably successful posts over that time.

I got banned just before all this happened because I made an anti-tankie post in an unrelated sub, then gamingcirclejerk auto-banned me with the message "beep boop gamer detected!", whereupon I replied, "What the fuck? Do you have literally any explanation for this?" and then I was banned for "harrassment".

Just basically a sitewide policy being abused by authoritarian assholes. They abuse their mod powers to harrass users they don't like to provoke a reaction, and the second you say a naughty word they go running to the admins to kick you off the site completely.

I then didn't make another account until I needed to to ask for support on one of the niche communities. I noticed in that time that my mental health improved enormously. This place is a lot nicer and I hope it can catch enough refugees to get critical mass and displace reddit. I'm sure it'll change as it grows but I'm really excited to see how different the culture will be as that happens.

12 years. Only go to the website when a search sends me there. Was active daily before all this stuff.

I think 7 years? I browsed reddit for a while before that reading up on my interests but eventually I created an account. Spent a LOT of time on subs for people who were abused as children. Therapy was used against me as part of the abuse. I am triggered by therapists now -.-" so these online self help spaces were a major part of my journey to understand and start recovery. It became a cornerstone to help me become a person.

Eventually several of these subs had a lot of internal drama. Back then I felt fealty to these communities and tried super hard to fix it. No avail. In a way I did my reorienting and mourning my lost community back then. I cut back on reddit use like 80% already going from many hours a day to maybe a few times a week? I'd still engage if something caught my attention. Especially in the refugee subs about childhood abuse that sprung up.

The recent protests brought that down to "only if I need some specific information". Maybe twice a month? I don't engage at all anymore. I also didn't feel like talking to a brick wall again to attempt to fix an online place. The rhethoric and even some methods between spez and some mods I tangled with is similar enough. I just left this time around. Let my actions speak. I can't bring my self to delete my comments tho.

I still miss a place where people intuitively get what I've been through because they have similar stories. And I'd like to pass it forward some more. I haven't found anything similar on the fediverse yet. But I'm in a place where I don't need it much anymore. It's still just sad that a handful of humans can destroy communities like this. It had such a big impact on my life.

Thanks for reading my sad ramblings!

Another 13 year old account

I've been there for 10+ years. I'm gone now. Haven't opened Reddit to browse it since Baconreader stopped working. Every now and then I am directed there for answers to my questions, but that's the only thing I use it for now. Lemmy doesn't fully replace it, but maybe it was time to let that braindead browsing addiction die off anyway.

12 years but honestly, I am glad the kerfuffle led me to Lemmy as well as other places I didn't know about. It seems there are many excellent alternatives who take the culture if their place seriously, which reddit never did. I get much more of a coffee shop discussion feel here.

I haven't fully left but I am spending less time there: no mobile use, limited moderation etc

11 years on reddit. I deleted all comments and posts before deleting my account

Apparently I have been there about 12 years. Don't go anymore and pause when google takes me there. Though I am not creating content so if I look I am mostly just using bandwidth.

Yup. Can't remember the exact date because I deleted those accounts, but from a glance at emails it was no later than 2010.

I now waste my time here, and occasionally look at a subreddit as a logged-out user for certain informational threads (eg. the pinned driver discussion thread atop /r/NVIDIA, or the pinned release discussion thread atop /r/UnRAID).

Hopefully in time, more of this discussion will migrate away from Reddit. I deleted my phone apps and my browser bookmark, so I no longer autopilot my way there.

This is better. Everyone reminisces about reddit before reddit got huge. Today, reddit is acting as a filter to attract people who want a more social media, gamified experience. That's a good thing for the Lemmy community.

10+, I left it without looking back. It is inconvenient and I miss few people there, but.. no.

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11 years. I still check in on old.reddit, but I don't post or submit anymore. Some of my old subs still go on as if nothing ever happened.

Yo. Purged then deleted a 12 year old account. Feels good man.

I used it for about 11 or 12 years. Stopped when rif died. I do occasionally go there if I need reviews but only in my web browser.

13 years. Deleted my account but forgot the stuff I had saved ☹️

15 years. I only visit occasionally now because with the exodus my favorite subs are a shadow of their former selves.

17+ years for me. November would be 18. Since the exodus, Reddit looks like a shadow of itself, but that could be that I only see the frontpage now. What a shame.

Yeah, I'm a 10 yearer. Shame, I loved Rif.

At least 15 years here

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11+ years here, all on mobile (Reddit Pics was my first app.)

Apollo WAS Reddit for me. I loathe the Reddit app and refuse to use it. Would happily have paid a monthly fee or whatever. I spent unhealthy amounts of time on Reddit.

Not been back since Apollo shut down. This is my home now.

I was an 11 year redditor that now runs his own Lemmy instance.

And my blanket!

10 years next February.

I’m not completely out but I haven’t posted or commented since July 1st

~18k Post Karma ~232k Comment Karma

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Yeah around 10 years here

I, too, am Spartacus.

My oldest account is just under 14 years old. I only visit to check on the status of my data download, and check on one sub once a month.

I’m old hat. I joined during the Digg vs Reddit wars of the early 2000s. Glad to see a new contender on the block.

At 8 years young I am way short of the long term Reddit membership criteria, but don't think that is really important, rather what matters are the reasons creating Reddit refugees and how they transition.

Personally I am transitioning away from Reddit as organisational goals are, in my view, trampling the community foundation of Reddit.

My personal transition to the Fediverse is not friction-less, and there are new community norms and tools to be aware of. In my case I have reverted to RSS to monitor key Reddit subreddits, where the fediverse does not yet have the critical informational mass, have started posting to the fediverse, and already learned new stuff such as there being different tools and expectations when it comes to things such as cross-posting.

Like others have said I encourage patient when it comes to Reddit refugees such as myself, encouraging rather than denigrating our ignorance when it comet to getting to grips with the fediverse, and all of its differences and tools. We will all be stronger for that in the long run!

@BuckRowdy https://i.imgur.com/SB2W3gI.png
The only real reddit drama that I personally was invested was r/animemes with Trap ban, so it's easy to ignore chat, follows, cryptocurency, Reddit becoming close sourced, Avatars (I set up one and change it 1 time when free was given and like ehh it's gamer thingy lookalike will use it).
I got my GPDR or how it called request, but didn't login till day 20 and you have 7 days to download and 30 to request link... well I requested link 3 times and still error.

A bit over ten years, left on the eve of the big change. Haven't been back. Don't miss it.

Thanks to lemmy being broken every now and then, I can do stuff sometimes, which is nice.

13+ years here, haven't been back since the API debacle happened and my favorite app Sync went under.

Pretty excited though since I'm new here and just read that Sync is coming back as a Lemmy app soon!

450k comment karma; I check twice a day and it looks like it's gone down hill. Shits just crypto spam and UFO bullshit now. What's the deal with the giant hard on for UFOs? If Trump didn't blab the second he found out then that should be proof enough for everyone.

9 years and 9 months currently.

At least 10 years....won't go and check. I'm working hard to get the hang of the fediverse and being patient while it grows up. I'll check a few niche subjects on Reddit but without a phone app my usage is down like 98%. Not posting or voting. Obligatory fuck /u/spez. What a dumbass maneuver he pulled...so many other choices. Can't wait for him to go down in flames....

I'm Spartacus.

16 years for me. I joined during the Dig revolt in 2007.

What's got 2 thumbs and is this guy?

THIS GUY!

Had an account since 2011. Deleted it mid July. Haven’t logged in once. I miss the metalcore community but that’s about it.