Reddit

12 almost 13 years, discovered it just before the digg Exodus. Didn't know digg, never used Twitter, not much Facebook presence. Before Reddit it was gamefaqs, icanhascheeseburger Ctrl alt del and wimp. Now it's gamefaqs steam and Lemmy.

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

I was there for right around 10 years. Deleted all my comments off my main with powerdeletesuite before the api was nuked.

~14 years. Between the Fediverse and sites, like Squabbles, Mastodon, Lemmy of course, kbin, and Beehaw, I can browse more content than Reddit while individual sites build up more content. Now I use Reddit only about 1% as much as I did in the past, usually only when a Google search directs me there for a quick answer. Deleting my account felt really good too.

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

15 year account and happy with Lemmy here. Only going back to Reddit once in a while to make sure all my comments remain deleted.

Think I was 14 or 15. Only go on when Googling answers to things and.theres too many AI articles in the results.

Deleted mine a month ago.

I don't miss it one bit.

12+ years, Digg->Reddid refugee here

Over 10 years on the account, 1 or 2 extras of lurking before that.

I'm gone for the most part, I don't ever open Reddit just to scroll since I jumped to Lemmy, but I do still add "Reddit" at the end of my Google searches because search engines have become useless and that's still the best way I know to get somewhat unbiased replies on just about any topic.

Yup, 11 or 12 on the account with this name, plus a few before that under a no longer extant account, and a few months without an account as a lurker before that.

14 year old here. I've been back a few times to run Power Delete Suite to modify my existing comments, then delete them. Not sure what's happening, but the above is "a few times" as I checked once and sure enough some of my deleted comments were reappearing on that damned site!

I've also deleted all saved comments, etc.

Not quite 10, but close. I joined the site in 2014. Permanently deleted my account at the end of June.

God knows how long I'd been on Reddit. Easily 10+ and multiple accounts later.

11 years for me.

Ten-Year Club member here. Still need to sometimes to completely quit reddit.

12 here. Hate it, they had a good thing and they fucked it up for personal gain. I'm never gonna make amends with it.

✋ 15ish years. Left after Reddit confirmed they wouldn't be changing the policy

Just checked, apparently my first account is actually a bit over 10 years old. I haven't fully cut ties with reddit yet, but I'm interested in Lemmy, and participating a little.

I intend to be an annoying cunt on reddit constantly saying "Lemmy is better" whenever that statement can actually pass as true to a general audience. And I fully intend to violate the fuck out of the "you can't make a new account when we ban you"-rule if I end up getting banned for it.

I started using reddit during the digg migration. I lurked, replied to stuff and tried to upvote sanity in technical threads occasionally.

A year or so ago during a work trip to another continent I found that my account had been banned for "violation of the content policy". I worked their process to try and figure out why, but the replies were totally vague and either bot like or possibly written by someone with english as a second language.

It turned out that at the point I was banned I hadn't actually posted anything in over a year, so I really didn't have anything to go off. It is still a total mystery to me. I created a new account ( which I know they could consider ban evasion ) so I could copy my subscribed subreddits over and I was just lurking for the last year or so until the noise from their API changes pointed me at all the current alternatives. So here I am checking out the alternatives.

Yes.

I did.

Honestly Lemmy isn't proving particularly great yet; most of the top posts are from terminally-online agenda posters banging the same identity politics drum I couldn't escape on Reddit.

I think the main reason is the smaller communities here haven't reached critical mass yet. I'm not going back to Reddit, though, because I produced a lot of content for them over the years and they repaid me with a terrible user experience and endless adverts.

Hopefully it'll get better here. If not, maybe something else will pop up. Or I can just find an extra hobby.

Scrubbed and deleted a 12yr account and haven't been back.

I made my first account in 2007. I ended up deleting it before long but I made another in 2009, which I deleted a couple of weeks ago (after manually deleting every comment and post I had ever made).

Officially, I had just reached the 14-year club.

About 11 years, here. I only go back occasionally to look at some communities that haven't really moved here yet that are important to me, but other than that, I steer clear of Reddit and I prefer Lemmy now.

Been on Reddit for just a touch over ten years. Still visit it not logged in on a forked Reddit app with ad/telemetry content disabled, but refuse to engage content whatsoever.

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.

Raises hand. ~13 year old account, just deleted it and basically haven’t gone back and don’t intend to.

Sup.

✋

I'm Spartacus.

8 Years+ due to being an account-less lurker. Still use for official subreddits and occasional boredom. I guess having twice the content is also fine.

I've been on Reddit since 2012, but I haven't quite quit Reddit completely. It fills the same role as twitter now, where I go there to interact with specific communities but never scroll through the front page any more.

I joined before Obama was president so that's checks calendar 15+ years.

I have been trying to make the switch to Lemmy but frankly the content on here is very low quality compared to Reddit for now...

12 years here, quit reddit.

I don't really want to think about it being that long, considering how quickly I up and left as soon as RiF was supposed to shut down. Not relying on Reddit for Google results is practically impossible for me.

I made it about 12 years or so on Reddit. There are days where I do miss the place, but Kbin and Tumblr have been quite adequate replacements, I find.

I also feel like both sites are much friendlier as a general rule.

11 years here. Deleted all my posts (not that I was a crazy prolific poster, but it still took hours and hours with the tool running).

I was an active Digger and Redditor in 2006-7 then migrated fully to Reddit post digg-tastrophy. I’ve honestly found it hard to stay away from Reddit but the existence of Lemmy world and the fact that I just discovered they took Aaron Schwartz off the list of cofounders is strengthening my resolve. Thank you all for being here.

Edited to add - I have no intention of returning to Reddit. The average person has precious little they can do to change the tides of fortune, but one of them is to consistently vote with their wallet. In this case, our attention is filling their wallet, so I remove my attention and clicks.

10 years and the day Apollo died my towel went with it

I sure hope places for NFL and NHL pick up cause so far the MLB game threads are a ghost town

Hit my 10 years mark in June. Left at the end of that month when Bacon Reader app could no longer function. Not looking back. I was an active browser, commenter, and occasional poster. Never molded tho.

I was right at the 10 year mark myself. I only use it now when a thread comes up in a search, I don't ever go there just for the sake of it anymore.

I started lurking Reddit around 2010, actually got an account in 2012, to comment and upvote.

Before that, I was somewhat active from the mid to late 2000s in the MxTabs Forums (musician forum), Last.fm, and a brief stint at 4chan (never again).

Started at MxTabs in like middle school. They were having on/off problems with music industry assholes because we were "stealing sheet music." Around 05-06, Mx started having an exodus because of copyright issues, a couple DDOS attacks, a spam brigade attack and just people moving on to other places, so I started hanging out more on Last.fm. It was a fun and more relaxed community. Mx, while fun, was a bit more snobbish and took posting way more seriously than Reddit ever did.

By the time I reached college in 08-09, I hung out for a bit on 4chan. But it was too much, although I was there for the whole "New Users can't Triforce" thing (instead of users they said a homophobic slur). In which they coerced some kid into bricking his family's PC, to make an ascii art version of the Triforce from Zelda games. Basically like this:

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(EDIT: Can't format it on Lemmy, despite the preview showing it)

Eventually made it to Reddit, from IRL friends talking about it a lot. At the time, Reddit was like 4chan lite. So the meme cycle started in 4chan, Tumblr or Reddit (mostly 4chan, though). Made it's way to 9gag, where it got more traction, because my girlfriend at the time would send me 9gag meme links, that I had already seen on Reddit. Then it'd move to Instagram, Twitter, sometimes Vine, get beaten over the head on Facebook and a hollowed-out version of it would finally die during late-night comedy skits and monologues.

I was on Reddit for a lot of fucked-up, weird, tragic and funny shit that went down there. Obama's AMA, the whole shit with Ellen Pao and banning r/fatpeoplehate, Woody Harelson's AMA, Wycleaf Jean's AMA (a similar but lesser talked-about AMA disaster), the whole Boston Bombers incident, Pizzagate, Aaron Swartz's passing. When the_donald started "as a joke" and then went full batshit, racist (it was always there festering under, until the egregiousness hit a critical mass). The fappening, all the gore subreddits that got banned, the first version of r/place, live broadcasts during COVID and all the insane amounts of misinformation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the daily megathreads and now the whole fuck spez thing.

Granted forgetting a bunch more, but I was probably there for that. Left there as soon as I couldn't access through Apollo. Although, for years I used Alien Blue, then it started going to shit once Reddit got it and started forcing me to make an avatar and giving me free flair.

Now, I only lurk desktop on Firefox, just a couple communities, but a few of them are starting to pick up on Lemmy, so we'll see how this transition goes.

Damn, I just realized I've seen a lot of internet culture in this time. Like on man regaling on past tales, despite being 33.

I was in the 13 year club, and most of that was using RIF.

12 years. Migrated to Reddit when Digg collapsed. Reddit slowly changed over the last 4 years or so, for the worse, even before the recent shenanigans. Glad to be here.