Reddit

Around 15 years for me. I also took 3 10+ year old accounts too

I deleted an 11 year old account.

13 years. I'm done with the platform but not just because of their API bullshit.

My worldview and beliefs increasingly seem to fall just slightly outside what Reddit mods and admin find to be acceptable opinion.

I think I'm a pretty logical and reasonable human being, but apparently my beliefs about the way of the world are enough to get me continuously banned from the platform. Genuine 13 year account, then several newer ones. In the end I have just come to terms that Reddit isn't for me. They don't want me there and that's fine.

12 years on Reddit. Found it after digg messed with their site design causing a mass exodus. Now it’s happening again! Weee!

Long time Usenet user, started Reddit in Feb 2013. There were a few scandals and growing pains, but it always felt like a (somewhat rowdy) community. As a user-centric volunteer generated forum I never imagined it would succumb to corporate greed, but here we are. Or, there we were. Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air.

Well, I don't qualify, I just have just 9+ years...

Miss RiF.... But it was perhaps all for the better... Even if we had to make some sacrifices.

Only 9 years here.

I think I joined in 2010 or 11, just to follow the cavs sub and a few others then I think I went all in the span 2014-22

13 years for me and fuck Reddit. I don't see myself going back.

I have the 5 year trophy. Not nearly as many years as 10, but still something. I also left Reddit.

11+ years, lurked longer than that. It's probably easier to make the change to Lemmy if you've seen the descent.

I was on Reddit for around 11 years. Zero regrets leaving.

11+ years, here

Had an 11 year old account.

Not quite 10 years, only 8, but I left the moment rif was shut down. Fuck spez

Can't remember when I first started, but I paid for RIF Platinum in May 2014. It's been steadily declining for years, and the new API changes were the final nail in the coffin for me.

I got all my accounts banned last year and I've been watching the decline ever since.

12 years and honestly it’s a welcome change. I see others upset at the content quality but for me it’s a breath of fresh air and gives me good vibes.

Me, got on reddit in 2008 or 9.

Aye

I had my account from 2017 up until the 1st of July. I didn't delete it yet, but I do plan on using PowerDeleteSuite as soon as my computer gets fixed.

Me. I had 11 years. Same name as here, it's probably all on the wayback machine or something, I did delete my account before I learned about the thing that scrambles your entire history into nonsense, I would definitely have waited if I had known that existed.

It was a process, and overall the site worked well enough for me, but a few specific things made it less and less useful over time.

The one-two punch that made me say fuck it was, I was basically down to doing two things there that I cared about: posting my animals to the cute subs, and interacting in r/Winnipeg, and less often, r/Manitoba, which were directly relevant subs to my life. I also subscribed to a lot of other ones, but the content was all kinda take-it-or-leave-it stuff. I also do shitpost a lot, and I appreciate that we have places for that too, I have historically shitposted where others were trying to eatpost more than I wish I had, though I am referring to a question of tone rather than trolling or ratfucking or any of that 4chan crap. I just don't read the room well sometimes.

Anyways, first, I got shadowbanned in r/Winnipeg, which was the last space on Reddit that I found both relevant and somewhat harmonious to my viewpoint - the sub is an echo chamber, and I was aware of that and didn't particularly like it, but I would rather be in a chamber that echoes my voice if I must, and at the time it seemed like there were no other such spaces available. The internet used to have places where you could have a really lively debate with people you don't agree with and look forward to seeing them and hearing about their gardens the next day. It was really like that here, once. It's kinda weird looking back at it now, I should look in on some of those folks.

Anyways, I will never know what happened exactly, because shadowban, your accuser not being required to face you is a feature. If a mod had ever told me what it was I did, there is actually an extremely high possibility that I would have agreed that it was not acceptable, cause I go back and wish I had played stuff differently all the time, really. I can trace that it was about three weeks before I noticed, because my posts were typically good for 5-20 points of upvotes when I posted, sometimes a 100+ jackpot even, but they all started getting consistent zeroes. Logout, check, oh hey, I don't exist now! The cowardliness of it, the fact that whoever did it will never take ownership of it and justify it, and that being the unchanging reality of Reddit, was extremely eye-opening.

Digression Incoming: This shadowban did not make me leave Reddit, but now that I have, I basically won't participate in a space that has shadowbanning. Last I heard they don't have that here (indeed, the public mod logs are a big feature for me) but I will be gone if it's ever implemented. I also don't believe it will ever be seen as necessary here the way it became necessary on Reddit; Reddit mods can ban accounts, but they can't ban IPs or IP blocks or any such. Why? Reddit needs lots of users to get those profits happening. If they start banning IP blocks or domains willy nilly that is failure out of the gate. The tone, or even the integrity of communities, takes a backseat to the IPO.

Here, on the other hand, we are a community of people running these servers out of pocket or community supported, and therefore, no Instance admin is incentivized to do anything but ban/defed a troublesome IP or domain; everyone here despises the trolls, from top to bottom, and none of us, from top to bottom, have any use for them. The Reddit board, on the other hand, they actually NEED the trolls, they need big numbers to accomplish their goals, and what those numbers represent - trolls, bots, AI - it does not matter. The difference is capitalism. Everyone should really be noticing that, imo.

Anyways I still had one community that was somewhat relevant, r/Manitoba, which positions itself as the "free speech" alternative to r/Winnipeg's echo chamber. This one, I know exactly what happened, someone posted an article where a bunch of F350 drivers from a small Conservative-voting community were out protesting the state of the highways, which are atrocious and getting worse every year; I used to do asphalt, and we used to put down a few inches every summer on the road up to my place; the last four years it's either been no work done, or else that thing where they spray tar and then cover it with fine gravel.

Anyways, these being the people who have laughed at protestors for decades and also voted this shit in, I got a little up in my blood and posted a comment that included the line "Enjoy the world you voted for, hicks." I guess I figured as a rural-dwelling white dude I get to use that one. Anyways, reported, and next thing I know, three day ban. So much for that free speech absolutism eh?

Either way though, it was no longer an amenable place to my viewpoint, so that was that; since there are many places one can post one's cats for oos an aws, the ban lasted about an hour, which is how long it took me to sit down at my PC and delete my account.

12 years, not that I've had enough per say, more like the app on my phone stopped working lol

Was there well over a decade, started several different communities and helped do the tech stuff for several others when they started, made tools for communities and various bots that work for Reddit - only been back to check for messages and move my stuff over to here (on dedicated accounts hosted on more niche communities, probably going to start my own instance for my main project when I've written the bots and backend)

I really think that the people who care about communities and are willing to make the effort to help them grow are the main people who've left Reddit, they're the ones Reddit hurt the most and they're the ones actually engaged enough to put the effort to change in while it's still a bit messy - it's our job to make this place great, to make tools that improve it and new things to work with it

11-12 years since my first post on reddit, 13-15 years since i first started lurking.

Me I have been subbed on Reddit for well over ten years and left promptly after spez went nuclear on the API stuff

TBT I was just looking for a good reason to kill that addiction.

Enough of what 🤣 oh no my favourite third party client is down I have to migrate to another😭

I'm not using that shitty official app. 11+ years from account registration

I'm 15+, but I'm also still bouncing back and forth. Lemmy is my mobile usage and increasingly my desktop usage but I helped build a couple of communities over there that I just can't quite let go of.