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Since the Digg migration, when was that, 2010?
Since Reddit's APIcalypse the content of that site has gone to the drain. It is very clear that power users are no longer posting quality content. I am much more amused by Lemmy than Reddit nowadays, though it's true that it has that new car smell and the communities will keep growing and reforming from the Reddit ashes.
I don't think Reddit will disappear, but it's not the same site it was two months ago, that's a fact.
I haven't deleted my account yet but I rarely use it. I'm still trying to figure out lemmy but it seems lacking in content.
Joined Reddit 2009. Only go to Reddit now from clicking search results.
15 years with the account and lurked since 2005, basically from the beginning. Sad to see it turned into a complete shitshow. But the quality of the content, especially in the bigger subreddits has been declining long before that. It started going downhill with the popularity around 2015-2017 with the influx of new users. The discourse got a lot worse and briganded(?) and I lost the charm that it had in the early days. I am never using the site ever again out of principle. I got over Usenet and IRC, Reddit will also be eventually replaced.
How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?
I just use both now, honestly. I don't really use the big subreddits because the users and quality of conversation feel like they're actively making me dumber... but there are smaller niche communities that don't really have a viable non-reddit alternative yet, and I'm not willing to let one greedy man force me to give up on a part of my life that I really enjoy.
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.
I don't know how long I was on Reddit but it was for quite a while before the Digg exodus happened, so it might be 17 years? I had settled on RIF as my front end and was quite upset at the loss of the third party clients. It was apparent that Reddit was decaying for years, but being on the third party apps and knowing how to curate your subreddits helped a lot. I've been back over there a few times on old.* but it's not the same. Us old-timers are not the audience they want these days and frankly, I don't want to be the audience they want so good riddance.
11 year old account. When BaconReader went, so did I. Logged out during the blackout and won't be back.
I like the vibe better here anyway, but it would be nice if my two favorite niche subs would come with. There are Lemmy communities for both, but they're not very active (I participate in both here, it's just quiet)
I migrated there after digg 4.0. I still have a reddit account but all of my old comments have been changed to direct people to Lemmy. As far as my influence? Probably not much. While I had several hundred thousand post karma, that was all news related so I was not exactly a content creator. I did comment a decent amount though.
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.
I was on Reddit for 13 years! It still trips me out that Reddit was such a constant to me for so long. I learned SO much there over the years, and while I do still miss a few communities, I also know that leaving was the wise choice.
I took a peek over there the other day and the comment sections being dominated by tired puns that add nothing to the conversation and all the bots are worse than ever. I'm much happier not being there anymore, but it's definitely bittersweet!
11y, I'm very happy I found lemmy tho
I left reddit when I couldn't read it more on baconreader that was my favorite app, now I only visit it on web browser because there are still communities that I use a lot while working like r/cisco and r/fortinet, I really hope those communities move here soon
11 year account, 100k karma, deleted all comments.
Not totally sure off the top of my head but I guess I was on Reddit for about 13 years, give or take. I moderated some communities for many years as well.
I'm done now.
I have not found replacements for most of my Reddit communities — not the ones I actually cared about. It's a crying shame that online communities keep getting fractured by shitty corporate behavior (see Twitter). That is the main reason I will not get involved with another proprietary platform. Why should I invest my time and effort into building a community that will eventually be ripped to shreds by profiteers?
I don't know if Lemmy is "the one" but I feel like the principles of the fediverse have legs. The internet is going to have some growing pains in the coming years, and it's going to take a long time for anything like Lemmy to reach critical mass. I mean, even Reddit was still kind of niche when you compare it to, say, Twitter or Facebook. My grandma's on Twitter and Facebook, while Reddit even to this day is too technical for "the masses".
Honestly, it took me longer than it should have. I should have ditched Reddit years ago. But I'm here for it now. Fuck Musk, fuck Spez, and fuck the advertising-supported corporate hellscape of the modern internet in general.
Of course, many of these problems will come to the fediverse as well. Instances do indeed cost money to run. Too much for an intrepid webmaster to pay out of their own pocket just for fun in the long-term. Lemmy might just be a stepping stone.
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I remember when Reddit was run on LISP out of spez's bedroom in Somerville. Before it had subreddits. Before it had accounts.
Fuck spez and fuck Reddit.
10+ years, and really rooting for Lemmy.
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.
Redditor with 2 accounts for 14 years on RIF. 100% left.
15+ (?) years...
I have not deleted anything but the Reddit app is gone and I have not logged in again since the API thing.
Lemmy is just as good (just a wee bit smaller) and I'll be investing my (sometimes positive) energy here.
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.
10-11 years now
11.5 years. RIF was my phone app.
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 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.
12 years. The amount of knowledge and experience shared in a conversational style was invaluable, but I cannot keep using a service that is hostile to users like me/us.
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.
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, never looked back. I like Lemmy though! Feels like the start of the internet.
Blew it all away on the last day the API for using a bot to do so still worked. https://www.reddit.com/user/Reygle Profile's only still "active" is to watch a few places, but I'm never contributing again and I refuse to install the official app and only load the site in Firefox with an ad blocker on mobile.
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Been on reddit since ~2010, and paid Premium without interruption ever since they had it. I stopped paying Premium and logged out (haven't deleted my account tbh, but logging out made it annoying enough to interact with the site that it worked for me 😆).
And I found out: Less social media in my life is good. I browse Lemmy some, Tildes some, Firefish/Mastodon some, but honestly, far far less than I used to, and that's cool. Cheers to spez fixing my social media addiction! 🥂
11 years. I refuse to install their app. But I still go back to check Ukraine war updates every few days.
11 years for me. Once RiF went offline, so did I.
"Redditor for 16 years" which is how long ago Digg shat the bed. Reddit has followed in their footsteps.
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.
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!
Only a 7-year old account here but I almost exclusively used Apollo. After seeing how Spez (and company) treated Christian and the moderators (which do their work for free), I decided to never give that site any traffic anymore. Am very happy I found Lemmy!
12 year account, haven’t been back since the blackout started
Ten years and 150k comment karma.
Nearly 12 year account on reddit here. Haven't deleted it yet, but I've stopped browsing reddit for a month now and replaced it with Lemmy/kbin/Mastodon. Don't see myself ever going back.
About 15 years, various accounts. I left June 30. I have to browse some subreddits simply because their content is so niche, but I do so anonymously, without an active account. Wishing it was easier for some of those communities to migrate and hoping that in time they will.
11 years here. No intention of going back.