Reddit

I moved from Digg to reddit about 15 years ago, before the mass Digg exodus. For the last 5 years I was a paid reddit subscriber, mostly just because it was my most visited site and I wanted to support it.

Immediately after the API announcements, I cancelled my subscription and deleted all my posts. I also deleted most of my comments, and edited some to say I've moved to Lemmy. I planned to do that with all of them but I got bored.

There are some niche subreddits I still visit directly because I haven't found comparable communities, but I barely use the site at all anymore. I'm enjoying Lemmy and have also dipped back into RSS feeds for the first time in about a decade.

Unless something drastically changes, I will never post or comment there again. It's only a matter of time before I ditch it completely.

7 years for me. But that's still substantial.

I'd used Reddit in some fashion since about 2012. Jumped ship once I realized Lemmy was gaining steam and Spez wasn't going to budge. I'm sad, no doubt, but I think it's because Reddit was easy. Been lurking on Lemmy more lately just from lack of time, but I'm glad to see that things are still rolling along! I think the communities here are full of folks trying to make something amazing. Happy to contribute!

Edit: Punctuation.

~13 years, nuked my account. Fuck Spez.

It's gotta be 13-15 yrs for me. I haven't deleted my account because I just stopped going over there. They had a good run. Better than digg haha.

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.

I'm at 12 years. I haven't fully quit Reddit, per se, particularly as there are official support communities there that are nowhere else. But I'm trying to minimize my use and shift toward something, hopefully this, that better represents the open and decentralized approach I want to see. One company dictating exactly how I access my data is a problem for me.

11 years here, nuked my account from low orbit once sync stopped working. Shit is dumb, but I survived Digg, Slashdot, and all that shit. Love what I'm seeing on Lemmy.

11 years, haven’t logged in since Apollo was killed.

7 years, never coming back

Right here! 11 years, 2,000,000 karma, made the frontpage almost weekly. Same username as here.

16 years here. Haven't gone there since Sync shut down (except for tonight to see how old my account is)

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.

12 years. Haven't browsed Reddit since the blackout. Still end up there sometimes from search results, but I no longer participate. Thinking about hosting my own Lemmy instance.

I have the 10 years trophy and nearly 30K karma but I barely use reddit anymore except to moderate a community. I've been using Lemmy to some extent.

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.

I haven't entirely left yet, but I'm using Lemmy more and more. Been on reddit for 15 years.

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 patience 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!

I haven't totally left it, but I did delete a bunch of stuff and I don't check it as often.

Been mostly on Mastodon.

12 years, I was kind of surprised reddit just kept chugging along.

I had been on reddit since 2013. Didn't look back since they took away the API.

Hey. About 12 years and I've never used reddit without something like RES on the browser, Sync on Android or Apollo on iOS.

12 years. Not going back. Way better here..

My 14 year old account is dead and hasn't been logged into since the api day. I do still lurk on politics and one other sub, but I use RiF to do it.

I walked out after fourteen years, leaving behind my r/feminineboys that I built from zero to 200K over a decade, and I’m not looking back.

Apollo or die.

Or Voyager now, I suppose.

13 years on reddit, now one month off

Yo. Wasn't ever terribly active, but the reaction to the recent protest, both in CEO/admin response and some comments, made me realize the site wasn't what it was when I first joined and that I don't mesh with it anymore. I'll miss the active niche subs I followed, but starting fresh with an alternative like here has been great.

13 years and used to have multiple Reddit tabs open. It was a rough few days when the API boycott happened, but between that and losing Apollo, I realized that I was spending way too much time there, and I'm ok not being there.

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

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.

I had been there since 2010, I didn't even think twice about leaving.

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

I signed up for Reddit in 2011. Was fairly active, had about 80,000 link karma and 300,000 comment karma.

Overwrote and deleted all of my comments and threw it all away after what happened. No regrets.

My cake day actually would have been next Wednesday.

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!

And my blanket!

I am

16 year club here.

I had 16 years.

here here

10 plus years, deleted the entire account the day they killed third party apps. Never looked back once.

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?

I came over with the mass Digg exodus. Used RIF as long as I can remember. Don't go there anymore.