Reddit

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

10 years checking in. Deleted the account after API changes. It had been on decline for a long time when advertisers and astroturfers started gaming the content.

The niche subs were not much affected and kept me around - the passion and quality and expertise were refreshingly genuine.

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

Yeah. I got tired of posting and a message saying "you cant post that for sake of our community" across almost every single subreddit. If I see that shit on lemmy I'll make sure to block the entire server that has lemmys doing that. Its one thing to can some bots. Its another to have game devs as subreddit mods block negative sentiment for example, or an overzealous mod push their views and just delete comments.

Its not like I'm out there posting some insane content, either. I tried posting a 15 second video of a funny bug of a dude stuck spinning around to crab rave and I couldn't even post that to the diablo 4 games subreddit.

I starting using Reddit in 2010 or so when I was going through health issues and was looking for information. I became very active on Reddit over the years, occasionally helping to mod a couple of communities. I am not a hugely "online" person, but I loved Reddit as a source of information and advice from actual real people. Particularly for those of us living with chronic health conditions, Reddit in particular was hugely important.

But I don't use Reddit anymore. The whole API fiasco was the last straw for me, and I also just didn't see it remaining a vibrant place full of valuable information. So I deleted my accounts and left. Haven't been back since.

Only 2.5 years here, I'm the younger redditor

/waves_hand

I'm not sure how old my account was before I deleted it, but it was 12+ years.

13 years old account. Purged my account yesterday

Well over 10 years. Mostly comments rather than posts. Dropped out at the end of June and haven't been back. So far Lemmy and Mastodon have filled the gap.

I was part of the great Digg migration. I won't say that I've sworn off Reddit completely, but I will say that I start here on Lemmy. The volume of content on Reddit is still so huge compared to Lemmy that it is likely to take a lot longer than the mass switch that I was sort of hoping for away from Reddit.

17 years. I was never very active in commenting or posting, but quite addicted to reading and voting. But every good thing comes to an end, and I've known for some time that something this useful and interesting would eventually draw the attention of greedy minds (which happened awhile ago) and that they would eventually try to limit access to increase their profits (which just happened). So now it's time to move on. I'm doing this gradually, but it will happen.

15 years for me...

In that camp! 10 year old reddit account. Left before the change and haven't looked back. Like the vibe here too much.

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

I was introduced to Reddit 11 years ago in university. Daily user since. It felt like a real loss but not one I could talk to my usual support folks about. Even on Lemmy no one seems to want to acknowledge that this is a big shift for some of us and that we might still be kinda processing it.

Glad to be here. But yeh, it’s a shift after that much time.

Trying to let go, but the transition is a little hard. Still, 12 years over there.

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!

Part of the Digg Exodus, and now part of the Reddit Exodus. I was on Reddit before the Digg collapse but rarely.

Me. I was either 10 years or very close to it.

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

I am

16 year club here.

I've been a redditor for as long as I can remember, decided I had enough mid June. Sad to see what has become of the site. Lemmy has its quirks but it is a far better community.

Pity there are members here that still treat this place like it's reddit. Sensitive, hungry for validation, treating new posters like they ain't shit.. aye bro?

Somewhere around 12-13 years here. Moved here for better content and a functional app.

10 years overall for me. I still browse some niche subreddits by RSS only and no longer comment or vote.

16 years and one month on my main. Now onto my third lemmy server. Hope things settle here as it has a little bit of that early days of the Internet magic.

I think I joined around 2010-2011. Reddit feels soulless now, and I'm happy to use the fediverse instead.

Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i'm basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.

I'm one ~70k karma and 11 years. Originally landed on the site at the peak of f7u12

11yrs on reddit. Been here a month.

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

Made my account in 2011. I'm not deleting, but I've completely stopped using it outside of the occasional google search that points to a Reddit thread. Lemmy is a legitimate and viable alternative to Reddit at this point, and apps like Wefwef are leagues better than the official reddit app

12+years. Deleted my primary and secondary accounts. Haven't looked back.

I started on Digg in the summer/fall of 2005 right around the launching point of Diggnation; maybe 5-10 episodes in. A friend got me introduced to that. I was there until September of 2010 and then made the move to reddit as a part of the Great Digg Migration, and now find myself here on the fediverse

I've never been a very active contributor, but still felt connected and enjoyed seeing the conversations and links that people were sharing

I started using reddit in 2011, I'm not a power user or major contributor by any means. But I'm a lonely person who got joy out of my small niche communities, and I fear those are the spaces that will take the longest to reappear on lemmy, especially because I have no interest in modding or starting any of them myself. I haven't actually subscribed to any communities on lemmy yet, I'm waiting for the sync app to be ready so things will be more like I'm used to using (aka easier) and then I'll log into old reddit on my computer, write down all the subreddits I'm subscribed to, and begin to see which ones exist on the different lemmy instances and start to make this place feel more like my lil internet home. I liked tithe reddit experience more when I first started using it, and I'm excited for lemmy to kind of have that feeling again, since it's new and small still.

Yep. Since 2011. Fucking bye.

12 years.

170k karma. Nuked my post history a month ago. I'll occasionally look at reddit on my work desktop but I'm absolutely not installing the app

Me!

Only 7 years for me, but long enough to hope they miss my traffic.

10 years, pretty much on the nose, I was there until RIF went away, and been here since.