12 years here, started using it regularly after they killed Google reader.
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About 14 years or so for me. Was starting to get a bit bored of that place anyway. I've been enjoying Lemmy a lot so far.
I joined before Obama was president so that's checks calendar 15+ years.
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.
Twelve years on reddit and just about as long using reddit is fun, but now I'm gone.
~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.
@BuckRowdy https://i.imgur.com/SB2W3gI.png
The only real reddit drama that I personally was invested was r/animemes with Trap ban, so it's easy to ignore chat, follows, cryptocurency, Reddit becoming close sourced, Avatars (I set up one and change it 1 time when free was given and like ehh it's gamer thingy lookalike will use it).
I got my GPDR or how it called request, but didn't login till day 20 and you have 7 days to download and 30 to request link... well I requested link 3 times and still error.
Ten-Year Club member here. Still need to sometimes to completely quit reddit.
11 years, and I really haven't missed it. Lemmy has been great (the 3 day no-poop guy was just as good as anything that was on reddit), the apps are getting better by the day, and Mastodon has easily filled the gaps for breaking news.
Not quite 10, but close. I joined the site in 2014. Permanently deleted my account at the end of June.
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.
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12 year club, left when Apollo died, so far haven’t gone back.
Yep. Since 2011. Fucking bye.
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.
Think I was 14 or 15. Only go on when Googling answers to things and.theres too many AI articles in the results.
Me. Around 10-11 year account. It sucks since Reddit has been my landing page ever since joining. It really hurts that greed destroyed a good thing we have there.
But I feel that lemmy has something better to offer.
11 years here
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.
I think I hit my 12 year cake day shortly before leaving for good, and that wasn't my first account.
A bit over 10 years for me. Haven't looked back. That shit was rough.
Approaching 11 years
11 years. Fuck spez
Had an account since 2011. Deleted it mid July. Haven’t logged in once. I miss the metalcore community but that’s about it.
11 years here, going back every now and then only on desktop. Probably dropped my usage by 99%
11 years. Was using Apollo, now on Voyager! It’s like nothing has changed, except fewer bots.
13 years, cut and run when 3rd party app support was killed.
14 years. Mostly on RIF. Deleted my account on the last day. Enjoying it here. Many thanks to all of you!
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.
Raises hand. ~13 year old account, just deleted it and basically haven’t gone back and don’t intend to.
God knows how long I'd been on Reddit. Easily 10+ and multiple accounts later.
13 or so years for my accounts. I haven't deleted them and probably won't because there are some useful niche subs Lemmy can't fill yet. I spend more time on Lemmy overall, like so many people have said, Lemmy feels kind of like pre-2016 Reddit.
I would never offer to mod, though.
That would be me. Fuck Reddit.
Part of the Digg Exodus, and now part of the Reddit Exodus. I was on Reddit before the Digg collapse but rarely.
Me!
Got my first Reddit account in 2012 (which unfortunately was hacked in 2020 and got shut down). So I have used Reddit for 11 years at this point. I have been sick of the direction Reddit is going for a while, and when I realized Lemmy had started seeing some traffic I thought it was time to give this place a shot. So far Lemmy feels a bit like Reddit used to, which isn't a bad thing.
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12+ years here. Deleted all my content and account.
I can't check right now, but I know for certain I had at least 13 years
12 years.
170k karma. Nuked my post history a month ago. I'll occasionally look at reddit on my work desktop but I'm absolutely not installing the app
Haven't deleted my account but I've exclusively been here now. It was a few years old. Want to see Lemmy (and other alternative sites) grow as reddit loses.