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I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.

Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

Edit: I didn't expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you... I can't reply to everyone. I'm an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I'm really sad too, but I'm finding that lemmy has most of the content I'm looking for, just needs more comments.

The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Surprisingly painless, pleasant even.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

15 year Reddit user. Had my account banned for suggesting that a pedophile should have been taken out behind a building and shot. Up until that point, I hadn't even had so much as a suspension. It started with being banned from subs I never visited or commented in. I remember I had gotten into an argument with a mod and was accused of racism. To prove my racism, they used the "N word count bot", which came up with zero uses of the word in the entire 15 years I was on Reddit, which I think hurt the other person's feelings. His account had multiple uses. I really didn't think much of it and left Reddit alone for a couple of days due to being busy with work. When I went to log back in, I saw that I had been suspended for 30 days, and a week after that, I was permanently banned. Personally, think a lot of it had to do with my being subscribed and was active in some subs that were in direct contrast to Reddit's majority political ideology. I was told there are ways around a Reddit ban but I don't care enough to put in that much work to make another account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was there 11 years and only used the Reddit is Fun app. Kind of surprised how easily I was able to just cut it out of my life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

14 years and they're welcome to it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

12-13ish years. Deleted at start of June protests because I didn't expect reddit to budge at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

17 years. Probably the only site other than Google I've visited almost every day since then. It's extremely depressing to lose Reddit after all that time. But I'm enjoying Lemmy, and hoping we can grow it Digg-exodus-style.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

11 years. Left and didn't look back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

12 years here. It's out my social media rotation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was on there for 10 years. Fuck Steve Huffman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I joined in early 2012. In 2015 I became a mod on an active created by a friend for our EDM scene in a fairly major city. I had a Google calendar linked to FB event pages and added events multiple times a week and also helped mod a sub for a record label out of said city with now some widely known national artists. I’ve since moved states and stopped using Reddit after the blackout/API stuff. I miss it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used Reddit since 2012 until spez destroyed third party clients

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had just had my eleventh cake day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to remember. I know I had an app for it way back when I had an iPod touch, probably when I had the 3rd gen one.

Can't remember what year it was, but alien blue was still its own thing before it got bought out. I wanna say 12ish years? Can't remember for sure, but pretty sure I'm over 10.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, when Joey stopped working I tried the Reddit app for a few days, but it was just awful.

So here I am.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Digg poweruser, joined reddit in the digg exodus, spent many years pissing off redditors through various projects, ShitRedditSays, HailCorporate, GamingCirclejerk, the fun ones come and go in waves of interest as the zeitgeist moves along.

Been on lemmy for 3 years already now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

15 years for me. I'm not the type to go scorched earth, so I'll still pop in briefly from time to time from a Google search or to look for something specific, but I don't use Reddit for near-constant idle browsing anymore, like I used to. Now I have Lemmy for that, although it would probably be healthier to just cut out social media altogether (or severely reduce it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Digg refugee, I've had a couple 10+ year accts until the doxxing. Then I started flipping accts on the regular to prevent that. Modded a few subs until the admin IP banned me for being critical of the direction they are going.

So now I'm here and to be frank a lot happier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Adding my hand 12+ years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ten-year club trophy. Logged out of Reddit as the public spat with Apollo was in full swing. Only visiting if a search leads me there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just made 10 years. Gatdamm I have 184,742 karma over there. I didn’t realize lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think 10-12 years, I’m not sure, I’ve had a couple accounts over the years.

I do end up back now and then, so many searches lead back to Reddit. But I’m not scrolling anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

raises hand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

BE My account was I believe 11 years old when I deleted it right after all of the Apollo stuff went down. I used the app on my macs and mobile devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't officially "quit" Reddit but I am trying to migrate over here. I was with Reddit for 12 years. To be honest the API changes alone would not have made me leave. What drove me away was the fact that so many users were protesting the changes and the admins response was "well we don't need you anyway." I don't want to be part of a site that doesn't care what its users want.

Hopefully enough people who come over to lemmy donate to keep things running with the influx of new users.

Speaking of, is there any "preference" to the three ways of donating on the site? Do any of them have lower fees or anything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

8 years, deleted July 1. I kept a "throwaway" account to lurk when needed. Oh, the irony.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I joined reddit in 2009 after lurking for a year. Loved it for most of the time. Account now deleted :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I made my reddit account when my ex was in the hospital having my daughter. I was on the site for a year or two before that, lurking. All deleted now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That would be me.

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