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I probably started roughly in 2013. I was already pretty tired of the site. It's been a shell of what it was for quite a while. This was the last straw for me to go to the effort of finding something else.

I was a couple months away from my 10th cake day, but I'd been lurking for a few years before actually registering.

15y club here. Still go there from time to time, as there are very specific tech communities that I go to for help, unfortunately, but most of my social media is over here.

11 years. Very active commenter.

I've got high hopes for this place and the fedi-verse in general! I think the decentralized nature has so much potential.

I deleted my 11yr high karma account on 1st July. I had another before that which was a couple of years or so old.

I did it in protest but as an interesting side effect, my mental health has improved slightly. Guess actively engaging with toxicity does have an effect.

Created my first Reddit acc in 2008

12 years.. I closed my account June 1st haven't even opened the site

11 year, here. I lurk for it to supplement my news until Lemmy ramps up. Otherwise, I'm done there. Not exactly by choice, but because I was wrongly permanently suspended and admins refuse to listen to an appeal. Their loss, for I made them money through gildings both given and received, informative content, and reporting of incivility, bigotry, and violence.

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Can't quite recall how long I was on Reddit for, but I joined very early on. Maybe 14 or 15 years old, my account was? Reddit had been getting rubbish for years, possibly the last 6 or 7. I needed this push, and something about Lemmy reminds me of old Reddit. How it was in the early days. Yes, Lemmy does have some work to do, but I don't think it needs to be as popular as Reddit. Let people use other sites too. Way too much in-fighting and faux-drama on Reddit. Hopefully, Reddit traffic will be split between three or four sites. This may stop many of the stupid clashes.

I joined back in 2012 because I found more information looking up stuff there than I did on Google. I was one of those poor people who would go on reddit on the computer then go on the app and then go back to my computer. When I caught wind of what was going on with the third party and how it broke my favourite app Bacon Reader, I only went back just to see how many more John Oliver pictures were posted on r/pics and if there was any additional posting on and about pitties.

11 years. Just got my notification that my account data is ready for downloading. When I get time, the next step is to replace all my comments and then delete them prior to deleting my account. No plans to return.

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Right here!

Lurked for a long time then made my account in March of 2013. Had around 180,000 comment Karma. Deleted all my old comments (and some of them even seem to have stayed deleted) and haven't been back in weeks.

I've been on reddit since 2010, stopped when the 3rd parties were killed. The only thing I really miss is magictcg, there's nowhere else online anymore that keeps track of everything. I miss my daily dose of Wizards of the Coast drama

12-year club here. I still visit one sub-reddit because it doesn't exist here, but I don't interact. That's about it.

On reddit since 2011, used Rif since 2013. Used reddit through browser before that. I still had Rif installed on my phone after the switch to lemmy, and I used to take a look back to reddit every now and then. But now I have a new phone and Rif is not available on the Play store. I refuse to use the reddit app. Good bye Rif, you were my companion for many years.

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Here, but I still use Reddit for (the unfortunately many) communities that haven't migrated to Lemmy

hopped on in 2011. stopped when apollo died

10 year Redditor 13 years if we count lurking.

Just discovered Lemmy and plan to leave reddit at least partially. Reduced my time there already by more than 50% since the API stuff.

My 10 year anniversary was July 12.

13 years one account, 9 years the other.

After the API enshittification clarion, I sat down for hours and munged every. single. damn. comment with a complaint about this.

THEN I deleted the accounts.

For now, Lemmy is merely potential, but shaping up. Mastodon is microblogging and is built around individuals promoting themselves, so it feels egotistical, but it's more mature than Lemmy so I lurk there for now too.

Ultimately I am a forum user, as a participant in a conversation. Looking forward to that again.

Don’t know my exact age and can’t check as I post this because I refuse to visit reddit on my phone via anything but Apollo. But I’m pretty sure I’m 10+.

I do miss it. Once a month or so I’ll go peek at a couple smaller communities/game communities I was in that don’t have a Lemmy equivalent yet.

But I don’t comment anymore. I canceled my reddit premium the moment Apollo mentioned shut down. And I learned how to use the stronger mode of uBlock Origin to ensure they get as little from me as possible.

The site as I see it os shattered and barely functional. I can let what I’m used to shine through when I really want to by enabling certain domains to pass through uBlock Origin and NoScript. But tbh the shattered state is kind of fittingly metaphorical.

My Cake day is April 17, 2013.

I was maybe the most active for about the last ½-1 year before this August or something. Maybe 75-90% of my activity was lurking, viewing people's discussions.

I didn't notice negative events regarding Reddit before the API war in the summer. The subreddits I were at were nice places. I guess different communities/subreddits have conversations depending on the topic and how strick or active or casual or entertainment-only the community is about...so it's kinda obvious to me that some places have more decent talk and some of them get karma more easier with smaller effort and stuff...

I'm sad about the API stuff. I lost contact to Relay before they talked about the need of subscription, so they can handle the costs. I'm fine with that, on Relay's side - not angry about that. But my activity in Reddit took a plunge after I deleted Relay from my Android. Nowadays I go to Reddit only to read if there's info I need (problems with software etc) not found as easily some place else, but I don't create new stuff anymore.

I lurked from 2007 to 2009, finally created an account in 2009, and used just that one through maybe the first 5 years or so. In 2014 I started creating alts and deleting old accounts just to be able to cycle through some kind of anonymity to prevent cross referencing comments on one topic with my real identity on another. By 2019 I got pretty aggressive about anonymity and increased the number of alts and throwaways I used (and then used throwaway emails to "verify" with reddit, because I stopped trusting them with the backend data that could be used to correlate alts).

I deleted most of my alts, but kept two, for specific niche interests: the one I used to comment on the nuts and bolts of the legal profession, mostly in private subreddits that weren't crawled by search engines (or AI training), and one that participates in my city's subreddit about local issues.

At this point, I think the technology discussions on lemmy/kbin are already at or above the quality of reddit. There's still a ways to go with other general topics of discussion, but I think we'll get there on the big ones. I don't know if the niche topics will really take off, so for now I keep my reddit accounts that correspond to those.

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I left digg a long time ago and switched to reddit, account was almost 13 years old. Moving on the Lemmy for similar reason.