Reddit

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.

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.

10 years checking in. Deleted the account after API changes. It had been on decline for a long time when advertisers and astroturfers started gaming the content.

The niche subs were not much affected and kept me around - the passion and quality and expertise were refreshingly genuine.

I made my first account in 2008 and was a regular, originally using Alien Blue on iOS and then RIF when I migrated to Android. I haven't been back since RIF lost access. Fuck SPEZ and RIP 3rd party apps.

16 years and one month on my main. Now onto my third lemmy server. Hope things settle here as it has a little bit of that early days of the Internet magic.

11.5 years here. Have not cancelled yet but am pretty close to with my Lemmy usage increasing daily.

13 years old account. Purged my account yesterday

Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i'm basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.

16 year club here.

I was introduced to Reddit 11 years ago in university. Daily user since. It felt like a real loss but not one I could talk to my usual support folks about. Even on Lemmy no one seems to want to acknowledge that this is a big shift for some of us and that we might still be kinda processing it.

Glad to be here. But yeh, it’s a shift after that much time.

Me. I was either 10 years or very close to it. The loss of Relay was one thing, but the general douchebaggery that followed was the end for me.

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

In that camp! 10 year old reddit account. Left before the change and haven't looked back. Like the vibe here too much.

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I starting using Reddit in 2010 or so when I was going through health issues and was looking for information. I became very active on Reddit over the years, occasionally helping to mod a couple of communities. I am not a hugely "online" person, but I loved Reddit as a source of information and advice from actual real people. Particularly for those of us living with chronic health conditions, Reddit in particular was hugely important.

But I don't use Reddit anymore. The whole API fiasco was the last straw for me, and I also just didn't see it remaining a vibrant place full of valuable information. So I deleted my accounts and left. Haven't been back since.

12 years here sounding off

/waves_hand

I'm not sure how old my account was before I deleted it, but it was 12+ years.

I'm one ~70k karma and 11 years. Originally landed on the site at the peak of f7u12

here here

13 Years, 300k+ karma. Haven't been on reddit since Jun 30th, and I don't plan on ever going back.

Ever since "new reddit", I only ever used old.reddit with RES. The writing is on the wall, and old.reddit will soon be on the chopping block too.

Fuck the enshitification of reddit.

Somewhere around 12-13 years here. Moved here for better content and a functional app.

Mostly lurked since 2009, but always had an account so I could vote. Started commenting and posting more over time, to the point it was too much, having pointless internet arguments as a substitute for doomscrolling. So when I got the first notification about the API changes in RiF, decided it was time to cut the cord. I'd already mostly come around to the conclusion that I'd been wasting my time there, but I had a notion that it was somehow OK because the place I'd chosen to waste it was somehow different and better in comparison to other social media. It wasn't that I wanted to get on a boycott bandwagon. But the API decision, the thinly veiled intent of their ridiculous pricing, and their steadfastness in making no subsequent attempt to mitigate the changes whatsoever truly was the tipping point where I could no longer do the mental gymnastics required to con myself into wasting more time there.

Almost 12 years for me. Used Baconreader then Sync. Supported the protests in June, and bailed in July when they cut API access. Lemmy gives me what I need in an online community, without the aggression and toxicity that took over Reddit. I feel like I have gained back time to study/ read etc that I used to spend doom-scrolling.

10 years overall for me. I still browse some niche subreddits by RSS only and no longer comment or vote.

i’m just over 10 years, i haven’t really used it since apollo shut down. i’ll browse a couple of subreddits from my pc every once in a while but haven’t made any posts or comments

2009 was my primary account, I was a mod on some default subs and basically just dealt with spammers but it made me hate the site. I took a break and came back with disposable accounts, just used smaller hobby subs mostly.

My last reddit victory was spreading awareness of a toxic powermod's spam network and behavior on the site, someone who single-handedly controlled 20+ subs, dozens of alts, and is the type to send pics of dead bodies to people among other abhorrent behaviors. This led to their reputation being effectively ruined, and then later the admins ended up banning all their primary accounts and they lost all their main subs. They created more anonymous smaller subs and posted a screed against the "attack" on them, to which I gloated in the comments, effectively having that account reported for abuse and permanently suspended, to which I don't feel like appealing.

I lost my preferred third party app and had already been more involved on my favorite sub's discords. So while I still browse some meme subs I haven't really commented or interacted sincerely for quite a while.

11 years on reddit. I deleted all comments and posts before deleting my account

I had 16 years.

15 years for me...

I was an 11 year redditor that now runs his own Lemmy instance.

Yeah. I got tired of posting and a message saying "you cant post that for sake of our community" across almost every single subreddit. If I see that shit on lemmy I'll make sure to block the entire server that has lemmys doing that. Its one thing to can some bots. Its another to have game devs as subreddit mods block negative sentiment for example, or an overzealous mod push their views and just delete comments.

Its not like I'm out there posting some insane content, either. I tried posting a 15 second video of a funny bug of a dude stuck spinning around to crab rave and I couldn't even post that to the diablo 4 games subreddit.

11yrs on reddit. Been here a month.

12 years here. Couldn't stand any more bs.

2007 here. Bye, ~~Felicia~~ Spez.

Well over 10 years. Mostly comments rather than posts. Dropped out at the end of June and haven't been back. So far Lemmy and Mastodon have filled the gap.

15 years for me. Joined Reddit right when I got out of high school… crazy to think about.

12 years. Only go to the website when a search sends me there. Was active daily before all this stuff.

17 years. Part of some big Reddit history (rest in peace, I_RAPE_CATS)

Left when Apollo was kill.

15 years. I only visit occasionally now because with the exodus my favorite subs are a shadow of their former selves.

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 was part of the great Digg migration. I won't say that I've sworn off Reddit completely, but I will say that I start here on Lemmy. The volume of content on Reddit is still so huge compared to Lemmy that it is likely to take a lot longer than the mass switch that I was sort of hoping for away from Reddit.

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

I jumped ship when the protests began. Catering to shareholders will move where the buck stops and so far the whole thing has been horribly mismanaged.

I haven't fully left but I am spending less time there: no mobile use, limited moderation etc

Only 2.5 years here, I'm the younger redditor