9+ years (nearly 10) checking in. No point using the site without Apollo
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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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.
I have the 10 years trophy and nearly 30K karma but I barely use reddit anymore except to moderate a community. I've been using Lemmy to some extent.
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14 years, here. From the Digg exodus.
I was an 11 year redditor that now runs his own Lemmy instance.
here here
Somewhere around 12-13 years here. Moved here for better content and a functional app.
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.
10 years overall for me. I still browse some niche subreddits by RSS only and no longer comment or vote.
16 years.
/waves_hand
I'm not sure how old my account was before I deleted it, but it was 12+ years.
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.
17 years. I was never very active in commenting or posting, but quite addicted to reading and voting. But every good thing comes to an end, and I've known for some time that something this useful and interesting would eventually draw the attention of greedy minds (which happened awhile ago) and that they would eventually try to limit access to increase their profits (which just happened). So now it's time to move on. I'm doing this gradually, but it will happen.
I haven't fully left but I am spending less time there: no mobile use, limited moderation etc
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.
I signed up for Reddit in 2011. Was fairly active, had about 80,000 link karma and 300,000 comment karma.
Overwrote and deleted all of my comments and threw it all away after what happened. No regrets.
My cake day actually would have been next Wednesday.
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.
Would've been 10 years in August. Steady Boost user since I went to Android 5 years ago. Been giving it my best effort with the official app since the API nightmare. I gave up today and uninstalled Reddit; this is the first post I read on Lemmy and my first comment. Here's hoping the melancholy will soon make way for renewed hopefulness for the future of the internet.
13 years old account. Purged my account yesterday
13+ years here, haven't been back since the API debacle happened and my favorite app Sync went under.
Pretty excited though since I'm new here and just read that Sync is coming back as a Lemmy app soon!
15 years for me...
16 year club here.
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.
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.
14 years primary account, 11 years alt. Mod in several >1 million communities.
Deleted everything, replaced my comments (>15k total) and posts (>500, including announcements on subs moderated) with a message stating my reasons, and then deleted both accounts. Plus 4 alts I sparsely used, between 3-8 years old.
Trying to let go, but the transition is a little hard. Still, 12 years over there.
11.5 years here. Have not cancelled yet but am pretty close to with my Lemmy usage increasing daily.
12 years for my primary account, 11 years for my "other" one. Like many at the time, came over during the Digg meltdown. Just before the API went to paid, used a tool to delete my 15,000+ posts/comments. Deleted both accounts in early July. Used Teddit a bit to still follow one or two subreddits, but now that has stopped working. Unless it pops up in a search, I doubt I will ever visit again. RIP.
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.
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?
17 years. Part of some big Reddit history (rest in peace, I_RAPE_CATS)
Left when Apollo was kill.
Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i'm basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.
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.
12 years here sounding off
No, I'm Spartacus!
Here I am. But I regularly deleted my Reddit account for privacy measures. As I’ll do with this one
12 years here. Couldn't stand any more bs.
12 years. Only go to the website when a search sends me there. Was active daily before all this stuff.
Over 17 years, my cake day is December 2005. I deleted all my posts and comments and came to Lemmy. I haven’t deleted the account yet simply because I still pop in to read stuff occasionally, but I’m done posting over there.
I think I joined around 2010-2011. Reddit feels soulless now, and I'm happy to use the fediverse instead.