Reddit

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.

11 years here. No intention of going back.

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.

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.

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.

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

raises hand

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

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.

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.

Joined Reddit 2009. Only go to Reddit now from clicking search results.

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.

17 years

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

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!

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Been on reddit since ~2010, and paid Premium without interruption ever since they had it. I stopped paying Premium and logged out (haven't deleted my account tbh, but logging out made it annoying enough to interact with the site that it worked for me 😆).

And I found out: Less social media in my life is good. I browse Lemmy some, Tildes some, Firefish/Mastodon some, but honestly, far far less than I used to, and that's cool. Cheers to spez fixing my social media addiction! 🥂

16 years on Reddit here but I was never a big user. In its early days it was a less toxic version of Digg but then Reddit itself eventually became Digg.

I wish these sites would use a more Slashdot-like moderation system. Not everyone deserves an equal vote especially with all the bots running around. Or Ars-like if you absolutely can't live without the pure democratic system.

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.

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

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

12 years here and I am not going back

12 years but honestly, I am glad the kerfuffle led me to Lemmy as well as other places I didn't know about. It seems there are many excellent alternatives who take the culture if their place seriously, which reddit never did. I get much more of a coffee shop discussion feel here.

13 years here, and I don't miss it

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.

Another 13 year old account

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

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...

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.

Ten years and 150k comment karma.

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

9+ years (nearly 10) checking in. No point using the site without Apollo

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

I’m one of those c/nfl mods and 12+ redditors that has moved on. I know Reddit probably has some life in it still, but the quality of the communities is going to go down. Decentralization serves users best.

12 years. Not going back. Way better here..

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

Had a 12 year old account, wiped and deleted

I, too, am Spartacus.

7 years for me. But that's still substantial.

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 had a 10y account. But I'm still going to check Reddit sometimes since Lemmy is not quite there yet, I feel.