Reddit

11.5 years. RIF was my phone app.

15+ (?) years...

I have not deleted anything but the Reddit app is gone and I have not logged in again since the API thing.

Lemmy is just as good (just a wee bit smaller) and I'll be investing my (sometimes positive) energy here.

11.5 year old account (same username). Reddit has been shit for years but there was never a real alternative. I tried so hard to make it good: I unsubbed from all of the defaults, curated my feed, used Apollo to block r/all, even blocked a bunch of keywords and chronic resposters. But it was no use, the quality of commentary was on a steady decline (UnDeRrAtEd CoMmEnT), and the arrogance of the average Redditor is staggering given how unoriginal and lazy they actually are (I'm not excluding myself from that comment). Frankly the ban on third party apps was just the straw that broke the camel's back, but really it was a forgone conclusion that I left. Maybe it's just because I've gotten older. I've checked it a few times since "leaving" - it's still shit, and going back makes me realise how bad it actually was.

I refuse to delete my account because I'd rather they (and anyone else) see that my account was purposely abandoned because of their actions.

Lemmy is doing much better, but honestly it's probably because it's empty. It will likely go the same way in years to come, which I welcome because this place deserves the success. I'll enjoy it while I like it... Ironically I tried to post this comment but got wiped by a long outage.

12 year account, haven’t been back since the blackout started

13 years here, and I don't miss it

This is better. Everyone reminisces about reddit before reddit got huge. Today, reddit is acting as a filter to attract people who want a more social media, gamified experience. That's a good thing for the Lemmy community.

11 years here. No intention of going back.

I walked out after fourteen years, leaving behind my r/feminineboys that I built from zero to 200K over a decade, and I’m not looking back.

Apollo or die.

Or Voyager now, I suppose.

15 year here. And I probably used reddit for a while before making an account.

I think I'm about to hit the 15 year mark there. Still visit from time to time and probably will until the niche communities I like there are all replicated there but I'm already habituated to clicking Lemmy rather than Reddit when I'm bored.

I won't miss it, it has already been a shell of its former self for years. The community is still fine but always getting more mainstream. The UI is horrendous though, especially on a desktop browser with all the mouseovers always getting in your way to show you some useless profile pic of a user or sub. Won't miss that for a second.

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17 years. Deleted all posts and comments and I avoid it unless I google something and there's something relevant

10 years here, haven't modded anything and was mostly active in a few relatively niche subreddits, so, unfortunately, currently Lemmy can't fill the void quitting Reddit left (yet), but still not looking back.

Not giving the corporate fucks at Reddit any more free content. If you're living off the community, don't shit on the community.

10 years of doom scrolling I feel much better not being on reddit

17 years

Haven't logged back in since my 3rd party client stopped working.

I was a 14-year user and haven't logged in since before the blackout. I'm glad I got to be around to witness some of the old classics but so be it. I hope lemmy can become a repository of comparable knowledge in time.

14 years. The reddit protest was a great way to exit an unhealthy relationship with a site that was devouring way too much of my time. But now lemmy is slowly starting to draw me in more and more...

17+ years. It had been going downhill for a while, but the disdain for the volunteer mods and cutting BaconReader and the API changes was to much.

Ten years and 150k comment karma.

11year veteran here. Echoing what others have said that the fediverse is a much calmer, civilised place,at least for now!

I'm right around the 10 year mark. Mostly lurked.

13 year club. I only hopped on one time since the blackout when I got a notification on my Joey client about them discontinuing gold. Just went around and awarded all mine to old comments. The dev of Joey said it was shutdown so I was surprised it worked still.

12 years. I was part of the Digg migration. I used to love Digg. Then a bunch of corporate asshole decided to run Digg into the ground and a new found love for Reddit slowly bloomed out of that. I am still hoping to find that love for Lemmy. It's not quite there yet, but it is only a matter of time as I really appreciate the good vibes here.

Replaced all my posts and comments using power suite.
Didn’t delete the account but removed any value

12 yr here, but my shameful confession is my porn account on Reddit lurks like normal. At least they don't get ad revenue from it!

11 years. I commented a lot and had a decent trickle of reasonably successful posts over that time.

I got banned just before all this happened because I made an anti-tankie post in an unrelated sub, then gamingcirclejerk auto-banned me with the message "beep boop gamer detected!", whereupon I replied, "What the fuck? Do you have literally any explanation for this?" and then I was banned for "harrassment".

Just basically a sitewide policy being abused by authoritarian assholes. They abuse their mod powers to harrass users they don't like to provoke a reaction, and the second you say a naughty word they go running to the admins to kick you off the site completely.

I then didn't make another account until I needed to to ask for support on one of the niche communities. I noticed in that time that my mental health improved enormously. This place is a lot nicer and I hope it can catch enough refugees to get critical mass and displace reddit. I'm sure it'll change as it grows but I'm really excited to see how different the culture will be as that happens.

12 years here and I am not going back

Nearly 12 year account on reddit here. Haven't deleted it yet, but I've stopped browsing reddit for a month now and replaced it with Lemmy/kbin/Mastodon. Don't see myself ever going back.

Props to y'all, I have no clue when I started. I had one account, then I lost it because I forgot about it and made another one year or two later. And then another one cuz I wanted it to be linked to my user name in one of my games.

All I remember was that I quit that game after 5+ years of playing, and I had account 1-2 years prior. And that quitting date was somewhere in 2019, so that's like 2014ish or so, I guess I might have been a Redditor for almost 10+/- years.

But yeah, since the blackout. I've been browsing Lemmy and Mastodon whenever Lemmy goes down. No regret, I've been enjoying the new experience and it got me to browse a bit less than usual due to less content overall but still it's positive.

Rooting hard for fediverse to go off!

Only a 7-year old account here but I almost exclusively used Apollo. After seeing how Spez (and company) treated Christian and the moderators (which do their work for free), I decided to never give that site any traffic anymore. Am very happy I found Lemmy!

10. Not completely gone but cut back about 95%

Not sure how long but pre-Digg.

I remember feeling a kind of resentment when the Digg exodus happened at the time but hey. Lemmy reminds me of that time once again.

I've been on Reddit for 10 years and now I use Reddit very rarely (only when I feel like a community on Reddit is the only place for me to get info about a specific thing). Now I frequent Lemmy (and Kbin) instead for news, discussions and memes.

About 15 years, various accounts. I left June 30. I have to browse some subreddits simply because their content is so niche, but I do so anonymously, without an active account. Wishing it was easier for some of those communities to migrate and hoping that in time they will.

16 years here. Haven't gone there since Sync shut down (except for tonight to see how old my account is)

Creeping towards 13 years on my main. When rif stopped working I was done. Can't believe how shitty they've been over there.

12 years (Dec 2010), 113000 comment karma, Reddit premium (still 10 months of that remaining apparently).

Cancelled my premium subscription, and I rarely visit the site anymore (usually just to gawk at the lack of any content). I was a large contributor to tech support and networking subs including /r/techsupport and /r/homenetworking. Avid user of old.reddit.com and RES.

Needless to say, I'm sad that we needed to find a new home, though, I get it. I'm not mad at anyone specific about it, beyond /u/spez. And I'm firmly invested in to Lemmy.

Fuck spez.

I was 12+ years and browsed almost exclusively on mobile through RIF. I switched over to Lemmy and I'm liking it so far.

Yup. Can't remember the exact date because I deleted those accounts, but from a glance at emails it was no later than 2010.

I now waste my time here, and occasionally look at a subreddit as a logged-out user for certain informational threads (eg. the pinned driver discussion thread atop /r/NVIDIA, or the pinned release discussion thread atop /r/UnRAID).

Hopefully in time, more of this discussion will migrate away from Reddit. I deleted my phone apps and my browser bookmark, so I no longer autopilot my way there.

I was there for 14 years with 5 accounts totaling over 1 million karma across them all. Never really cared about karma, it just added up over time. Happy to be here! I left Digg back in the day, too

Apparently I have been there about 12 years. Don't go anymore and pause when google takes me there. Though I am not creating content so if I look I am mostly just using bandwidth.

12 years, I was kind of surprised reddit just kept chugging along.

I, too, am Spartacus.

15 year user. Haven't been back since the API changes were made public.

12 years in September. Was difficult those first couple of weeks to leave after so long but I think I’ve finally detoxed.

I came over with the mass Digg exodus. Used RIF as long as I can remember. Don't go there anymore.