Reddit

At 8 years young I am way short of the long term Reddit membership criteria, but don't think that is really important, rather what matters are the reasons creating Reddit refugees and how they transition.

Personally I am transitioning away from Reddit as organisational goals are, in my view, trampling the community foundation of Reddit.

My personal transition to the Fediverse is not friction-less, and there are new community norms and tools to be aware of. In my case I have reverted to RSS to monitor key Reddit subreddits, where the fediverse does not yet have the critical informational mass, have started posting to the fediverse, and already learned new stuff such as there being different tools and expectations when it comes to things such as cross-posting.

Like others have said I encourage patience when it comes to Reddit refugees such as myself, encouraging rather than denigrating our ignorance when it comet to getting to grips with the fediverse, and all of its differences and tools. We will all be stronger for that in the long run!

I haven't totally left it, but I did delete a bunch of stuff and I don't check it as often.

Been mostly on Mastodon.

I had been on reddit since 2013. Didn't look back since they took away the API.

7 years, never coming back

I, too, am Spartacus.

I moved from Digg to reddit about 15 years ago, before the mass Digg exodus. For the last 5 years I was a paid reddit subscriber, mostly just because it was my most visited site and I wanted to support it.

Immediately after the API announcements, I cancelled my subscription and deleted all my posts. I also deleted most of my comments, and edited some to say I've moved to Lemmy. I planned to do that with all of them but I got bored.

There are some niche subreddits I still visit directly because I haven't found comparable communities, but I barely use the site at all anymore. I'm enjoying Lemmy and have also dipped back into RSS feeds for the first time in about a decade.

Unless something drastically changes, I will never post or comment there again. It's only a matter of time before I ditch it completely.

A bit over ten years, left on the eve of the big change. Haven't been back. Don't miss it.

Thanks to lemmy being broken every now and then, I can do stuff sometimes, which is nice.

Another 13 year old account

Yo. Purged then deleted a 12 year old account. Feels good man.

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

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

Yeah probably 10+ years.

It's going to be hard to stop using Reddit though. Very little niche communities have migrated.

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

11 years here, nuked my account from low orbit once sync stopped working. Shit is dumb, but I survived Digg, Slashdot, and all that shit. Love what I'm seeing on Lemmy.

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

15 years in September. I haven't bailed completely but almost.

11 years ago I switched to Reddit from Fark. Before that I switched to Fark from Slashdot (mid 5 digit user ID).

I haven't quit Reddit completely, but I've drastically reduced my usage and will likely continue to reduce further as Lemmy and/or other options grow.

Basically the same as I did with previous sites I frequented. I occasionally check Fark and Slashdot, but I'm far from a frequent reader and rarely contribute any further.

It may take time, and obviously won't be as fast as the death of Digg, but spez has likely effectively killed Reddit. It just doesn't know it yet.

More than 10 years redditor here -- probably close to 11 or 12, can't say for sure. API changes and the consequent death of RiF pushed me out.

14-year club represent.

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.

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

It's gotta be 13-15 yrs for me. I haven't deleted my account because I just stopped going over there. They had a good run. Better than digg haha.

I'm not completely off reddit yet (reduced interaction but still disentangling from it, it'll probably take a little while yet to be completely gone), but I made the account I have there now in August 2008, just shy of 15 years ago. I lurked for a good while before making that account though. (edit: > 150K comment karma, most participation on low volume subs)

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.

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.

My 14 year old account is dead and hasn't been logged into since the api day. I do still lurk on politics and one other sub, but I use RiF to do it.

11 years, haven’t logged in since Apollo was killed.

Hey. About 12 years and I've never used reddit without something like RES on the browser, Sync on Android or Apollo on iOS.

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

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

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.

Yo. Wasn't ever terribly active, but the reaction to the recent protest, both in CEO/admin response and some comments, made me realize the site wasn't what it was when I first joined and that I don't mesh with it anymore. I'll miss the active niche subs I followed, but starting fresh with an alternative like here has been great.

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

::Raises Hand:: 12 year club here.

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

I had been there since 2010, I didn't even think twice about leaving.

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

Had a 12 year old account, wiped and deleted

I'd used Reddit in some fashion since about 2012. Jumped ship once I realized Lemmy was gaining steam and Spez wasn't going to budge. I'm sad, no doubt, but I think it's because Reddit was easy. Been lurking on Lemmy more lately just from lack of time, but I'm glad to see that things are still rolling along! I think the communities here are full of folks trying to make something amazing. Happy to contribute!

Edit: Punctuation.

13 years and used to have multiple Reddit tabs open. It was a rough few days when the API boycott happened, but between that and losing Apollo, I realized that I was spending way too much time there, and I'm ok not being there.

I'm not off Reddit entirely, but I'm trying to transition here for what I can. It looks like most of the communities I'm in are here too, they're just a lot quieter. So I'm looking to post more.

Was on Reddit for ~7 years, I think.

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.

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

I haven't entirely left yet, but I'm using Lemmy more and more. Been on reddit for 15 years.

10+, I left it without looking back. It is inconvenient and I miss few people there, but.. no.