I deleted my account of 17 years
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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Would have 12 years in August here. There's some fandom-centric communities that I miss from my old reddit sub list, but honestly I'm thoroughly enjoying lemmy. I mostly stuck to the official app and the desktop old reddit before dropping it for lemmy, It's so damn nice not seeing He Gets Us ads or casino ads like every 4-5 posts. I left reddit just about when they announced the API cost changes and was like, welp that's going to kill everything. I got an email about Lemmy SDF because of my Mastodon and basically said hey might as well jump ship now and check this thing out.
10 years for me!
7 years here. Glad I left reddit for lemmy. I will never sign up for a centralized social media platform again, I've learned my lesson.
Fuck u/spez.
13 years, here
Would have been 12 years this month, I haven’t deleted my account yet but I haven’t been back since end of June. While I do miss some of my old communities, I loved Apollo and Alien Blue before that and won’t go back. I posted pretty frequently and most always from mobile. I’m working on deleting the old account here soon.
8 years here, 90% left
8 years for me. Cut my usage down by around 95% I'd say. Only when I need something specific do I go back
Honestly I don't mind as much as I thought I'd do
Almost to 10. 9yrs 6 months before I left.
I joined 2012. It's a weird feeling leaving it after so long.
13 years user, and lemmy reminds me of year 1
16+ years. No intentions of going back. The Fediverse is cool, and I’m enjoying it.
Well over 10 years. About 4 years ago found myself missing the "old" Reddit experience, lighthearted, tons of memes, silly, and interesting. Feels more like that on Lemmy.
Just logged in at Reddit to confirm--12 years.
And my whole homepage there is filled with posts about sex. I don't log in there for weeks and it's gone way down hill.
I deleted my alt with 45k comment karma that was I think 14 years, my oldest account is a version of my actual name that I don’t want someone taking that is 16 years old, that I didn’t delete, but I did nuke all my comments.
I'm one of 'em. Killing Sync (and every other awesome 3rd party client) was the straw that broke this camel's back.
12 years of heavy activity here, I nuked my account 6 weeks or so ago.
11 years. I want to view controversial content and I'm not feeling too optomistic about lemmy world either.
10+ years. Deleted my account, posts and comments. It was long and slow decision. It's just not the same reddit I feel in love with. Carma whoring, vanity, both far right and far left junk, bots (hate bots), the terrible UI... Finally, when I could no longer use RIF, that was it. I actually worked on a reddit API based app a few years ago and this really pissed me off on that level too.
I don't know. How long ago was 2015? ... Shit I'm old.
Digg refugee, so my reddit account is 13 years old.
Exactly 10 years. Haven't visited Reddit since mid-june. I miss it? Yeah, but fuck Spez
My account is 13, but lurked a bit before that. Never installed the official app. Used RES for desktop, and Boost for mobile.
Me, the modding had become a real quagmire.
7 years, still there to moderate because only half of the community wanted to leave. But that's it, no more frontpage for me.
10+ years, I had really started to generate content the last couple years, and will now forever be at 49.5k karma. I even used the shitty app, but left for good when spez started talking about admiring musk. He's an unredeemable prick.
9 years on reddit. I didn't post a lot of content or comments but I read a lot. As soon as they killed 3rd party apps, I left. And switched to lemmy. I like it here. I think I already posted more comments here, than on reddit. I don't miss reddit at all.
13 years here. Not going back!
Close to 5-6 or so years if I count my banned account years.
Still on both fences but I will try to transition once sync for lemmy is ready.
I was there for about 15 years, shortly after launch, when there were only a handful of predefined subreddits. I would say "good times" but there was also shit like jailbait as a default sub...
Yep, part of the 11-year club as well. I stopped browsing on mobile when Apollo died. I still browse on old.reddit in a browser, but I've found about 60%-70% of the content on here that I was looking for over there. So, not too shabby.