Reddit

Just checked: oldest account i still have is 16 years old.

I started my first account in 2012 because my ex husband was into it. I ask don't understand "why does the narwhal bacon" but I slowly figured out reddit and recommended it to all of my friends. Sad to see it go; but I'm glad... except for a few small communities (Neopets, Microgrowery, AIDKE, shrimptanks, succshaming, etc.) it was turning into a cesspool of ads and manipulated visibility.

About a decade or so on Reddit. Most of it through Relay when I was an android user or Apollo for the last few years.

Deleted my account. Don’t really think about Reddit anymore unless it comes up on a news site or here.

raises hand

12 years, left when Apollo stopped working and went to Lemmy.world... left to another instance today when they started blocking certain communities

Bacon it was my jam. Spent 11 years there. Only slightly miss it to be honest.

11 years. Very active commenter.

I've got high hopes for this place and the fedi-verse in general! I think the decentralized nature has so much potential.

My Cake day is April 17, 2013.

I was maybe the most active for about the last ½-1 year before this August or something. Maybe 75-90% of my activity was lurking, viewing people's discussions.

I didn't notice negative events regarding Reddit before the API war in the summer. The subreddits I were at were nice places. I guess different communities/subreddits have conversations depending on the topic and how strick or active or casual or entertainment-only the community is about...so it's kinda obvious to me that some places have more decent talk and some of them get karma more easier with smaller effort and stuff...

I'm sad about the API stuff. I lost contact to Relay before they talked about the need of subscription, so they can handle the costs. I'm fine with that, on Relay's side - not angry about that. But my activity in Reddit took a plunge after I deleted Relay from my Android. Nowadays I go to Reddit only to read if there's info I need (problems with software etc) not found as easily some place else, but I don't create new stuff anymore.

Just over a decade on reddit. Still miss how it was. Hopeful for lemmy and fediverse future

Don’t know my exact age and can’t check as I post this because I refuse to visit reddit on my phone via anything but Apollo. But I’m pretty sure I’m 10+.

I do miss it. Once a month or so I’ll go peek at a couple smaller communities/game communities I was in that don’t have a Lemmy equivalent yet.

But I don’t comment anymore. I canceled my reddit premium the moment Apollo mentioned shut down. And I learned how to use the stronger mode of uBlock Origin to ensure they get as little from me as possible.

The site as I see it os shattered and barely functional. I can let what I’m used to shine through when I really want to by enabling certain domains to pass through uBlock Origin and NoScript. But tbh the shattered state is kind of fittingly metaphorical.

13 years one account, 9 years the other.

After the API enshittification clarion, I sat down for hours and munged every. single. damn. comment with a complaint about this.

THEN I deleted the accounts.

For now, Lemmy is merely potential, but shaping up. Mastodon is microblogging and is built around individuals promoting themselves, so it feels egotistical, but it's more mature than Lemmy so I lurk there for now too.

Ultimately I am a forum user, as a participant in a conversation. Looking forward to that again.

Yeah I hauled ass this year. Logged out and will not go back. It went from decent for years to cumbersome garbage real quick.

I had my account from 2017 up until the 1st of July. I didn't delete it yet, but I do plan on using PowerDeleteSuite as soon as my computer gets fixed.

Was there well over a decade, started several different communities and helped do the tech stuff for several others when they started, made tools for communities and various bots that work for Reddit - only been back to check for messages and move my stuff over to here (on dedicated accounts hosted on more niche communities, probably going to start my own instance for my main project when I've written the bots and backend)

I really think that the people who care about communities and are willing to make the effort to help them grow are the main people who've left Reddit, they're the ones Reddit hurt the most and they're the ones actually engaged enough to put the effort to change in while it's still a bit messy - it's our job to make this place great, to make tools that improve it and new things to work with it

Me. I had 11 years. Same name as here, it's probably all on the wayback machine or something, I did delete my account before I learned about the thing that scrambles your entire history into nonsense, I would definitely have waited if I had known that existed.

It was a process, and overall the site worked well enough for me, but a few specific things made it less and less useful over time.

The one-two punch that made me say fuck it was, I was basically down to doing two things there that I cared about: posting my animals to the cute subs, and interacting in r/Winnipeg, and less often, r/Manitoba, which were directly relevant subs to my life. I also subscribed to a lot of other ones, but the content was all kinda take-it-or-leave-it stuff. I also do shitpost a lot, and I appreciate that we have places for that too, I have historically shitposted where others were trying to eatpost more than I wish I had, though I am referring to a question of tone rather than trolling or ratfucking or any of that 4chan crap. I just don't read the room well sometimes.

Anyways, first, I got shadowbanned in r/Winnipeg, which was the last space on Reddit that I found both relevant and somewhat harmonious to my viewpoint - the sub is an echo chamber, and I was aware of that and didn't particularly like it, but I would rather be in a chamber that echoes my voice if I must, and at the time it seemed like there were no other such spaces available. The internet used to have places where you could have a really lively debate with people you don't agree with and look forward to seeing them and hearing about their gardens the next day. It was really like that here, once. It's kinda weird looking back at it now, I should look in on some of those folks.

Anyways, I will never know what happened exactly, because shadowban, your accuser not being required to face you is a feature. If a mod had ever told me what it was I did, there is actually an extremely high possibility that I would have agreed that it was not acceptable, cause I go back and wish I had played stuff differently all the time, really. I can trace that it was about three weeks before I noticed, because my posts were typically good for 5-20 points of upvotes when I posted, sometimes a 100+ jackpot even, but they all started getting consistent zeroes. Logout, check, oh hey, I don't exist now! The cowardliness of it, the fact that whoever did it will never take ownership of it and justify it, and that being the unchanging reality of Reddit, was extremely eye-opening.

Digression Incoming: This shadowban did not make me leave Reddit, but now that I have, I basically won't participate in a space that has shadowbanning. Last I heard they don't have that here (indeed, the public mod logs are a big feature for me) but I will be gone if it's ever implemented. I also don't believe it will ever be seen as necessary here the way it became necessary on Reddit; Reddit mods can ban accounts, but they can't ban IPs or IP blocks or any such. Why? Reddit needs lots of users to get those profits happening. If they start banning IP blocks or domains willy nilly that is failure out of the gate. The tone, or even the integrity of communities, takes a backseat to the IPO.

Here, on the other hand, we are a community of people running these servers out of pocket or community supported, and therefore, no Instance admin is incentivized to do anything but ban/defed a troublesome IP or domain; everyone here despises the trolls, from top to bottom, and none of us, from top to bottom, have any use for them. The Reddit board, on the other hand, they actually NEED the trolls, they need big numbers to accomplish their goals, and what those numbers represent - trolls, bots, AI - it does not matter. The difference is capitalism. Everyone should really be noticing that, imo.

Anyways I still had one community that was somewhat relevant, r/Manitoba, which positions itself as the "free speech" alternative to r/Winnipeg's echo chamber. This one, I know exactly what happened, someone posted an article where a bunch of F350 drivers from a small Conservative-voting community were out protesting the state of the highways, which are atrocious and getting worse every year; I used to do asphalt, and we used to put down a few inches every summer on the road up to my place; the last four years it's either been no work done, or else that thing where they spray tar and then cover it with fine gravel.

Anyways, these being the people who have laughed at protestors for decades and also voted this shit in, I got a little up in my blood and posted a comment that included the line "Enjoy the world you voted for, hicks." I guess I figured as a rural-dwelling white dude I get to use that one. Anyways, reported, and next thing I know, three day ban. So much for that free speech absolutism eh?

Either way though, it was no longer an amenable place to my viewpoint, so that was that; since there are many places one can post one's cats for oos an aws, the ban lasted about an hour, which is how long it took me to sit down at my PC and delete my account.

11-12 years since my first post on reddit, 13-15 years since i first started lurking.

It would have been 13 years this year, but the API changes killed Boost and after also killing Reddit Gifts for failing to turn a profit when it started as a community thing, plus the new redesign to make it look more like the Facebook feed, plus having to rely on automoderator codes instead of having properly integrated mod tools, plus the fact that they keep rolling out Place again instead of coming up with more original ideas like The Button, plus allowing the_donald and creepshots to exist for so long...

...yeah.

12 years, not that I've had enough per say, more like the app on my phone stopped working lol

Me I have been subbed on Reddit for well over ten years and left promptly after spez went nuclear on the API stuff

TBT I was just looking for a good reason to kill that addiction.

10+ here - didn’t delete my account but sure as hell scrubbed it!

16y Redditor here

Aye

I'm not using that shitty official app. 11+ years from account registration

Enough of what 🤣 oh no my favourite third party client is down I have to migrate to another😭

I'm 15+, but I'm also still bouncing back and forth. Lemmy is my mobile usage and increasingly my desktop usage but I helped build a couple of communities over there that I just can't quite let go of.

You can count me as one of them. I was unsatisfied with Reddit for a while, but the recent changes were just too much.