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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.
12 years here. Couldn't stand any more bs.
here here
450k comment karma; I check twice a day and it looks like it's gone down hill. Shits just crypto spam and UFO bullshit now. What's the deal with the giant hard on for UFOs? If Trump didn't blab the second he found out then that should be proof enough for everyone.
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.
15 years. I only visit occasionally now because with the exodus my favorite subs are a shadow of their former selves.
13 years old account. Purged my account yesterday
Trying to let go, but the transition is a little hard. Still, 12 years over there.
15 years, reddit gold charter member, Secret Santa, all that stuff. And longer than 15 really, if you count the browsing I did before I made my account (I remember before subreddits were even a thing, when reddit was literally just a front page).
Still visit on desktop sometimes because unfortunately some people will probably never leave and there are communities that are useful to me that haven't migrated. Same with with Twitter, which is frustrating to no end because they spend half of their time complaining about the site but never actually fucking leave.
My mobile usage is completely gone though. I used RIF for over a decade, I'm not using anything else.
16 year club here.
15 years for me...
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?
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.
Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i'm basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.
Only 2.5 years here, I'm the younger redditor
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.
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.
12 years here sounding off
17 years. Part of some big Reddit history (rest in peace, I_RAPE_CATS)
Left when Apollo was kill.
15 years for me. Joined Reddit right when I got out of high school… crazy to think about.
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
11 years on reddit. I deleted all comments and posts before deleting my account
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.
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.
Yup, 11 or 12 on the account with this name, plus a few before that under a no longer extant account, and a few months without an account as a lurker before that.
Not quite 10, but close. I joined the site in 2014. Permanently deleted my account at the end of June.
12 Years, fuck you u/Spez.
I joined before Obama was president so that's checks calendar 15+ years.
I deleted my account of 17 years
My 12th Cake Day was last week, which is how I discovered I had the Reddit app still installed on a test device that was my daily-driver a few years ago
I was in the 13 year club, and most of that was using RIF.
16 years. Fuck /u/spez
I was there for right around 10 years. Deleted all my comments off my main with powerdeletesuite before the api was nuked.
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.
12+ years here. Deleted all my content and account.
Joined Reddit in 2011 when my wife introduced me to it (and RiF).
Left when the API drama started and was glad when I found feddit.de (later switched to sh.itjust.works).
Have since deleted my reddit account and only browse it when I can't find any other source for a technical problem/solution.
I did.
Honestly Lemmy isn't proving particularly great yet; most of the top posts are from terminally-online agenda posters banging the same identity politics drum I couldn't escape on Reddit.
I think the main reason is the smaller communities here haven't reached critical mass yet. I'm not going back to Reddit, though, because I produced a lot of content for them over the years and they repaid me with a terrible user experience and endless adverts.
Hopefully it'll get better here. If not, maybe something else will pop up. Or I can just find an extra hobby.
Nearly 14 years, right after digg imploded.