Reddit

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 haven't fully left but I am spending less time there: no mobile use, limited moderation etc

17+ years for me. November would be 18. Since the exodus, Reddit looks like a shadow of itself, but that could be that I only see the frontpage now. What a shame.

2007 here. Bye, ~~Felicia~~ Spez.

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.

12 years here. Couldn't stand any more bs.

Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i'm basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.

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.

15 years for me. Joined Reddit right when I got out of high school… crazy to think about.

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?

I was introduced to Reddit 11 years ago in university. Daily user since. It felt like a real loss but not one I could talk to my usual support folks about. Even on Lemmy no one seems to want to acknowledge that this is a big shift for some of us and that we might still be kinda processing it.

Glad to be here. But yeh, it’s a shift after that much time.

15 years. I only visit occasionally now because with the exodus my favorite subs are a shadow of their former selves.

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.

I think I joined around 2010-2011. Reddit feels soulless now, and I'm happy to use the fediverse instead.

I'm around 11 years and a few hundred thousand karma. At this point I use reddit on desktop for a couple of specific communities that haven't made it over here.

All my mobile / time killing stuff has moved to lemmy.

It mostly just annoys the crap out of me, honestly. Glad to be in a cool new place but goddammit reddit, you didn't have to do this crap.

No, I'm Spartacus!

And my blanket!

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.

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.

Only 2.5 years here, I'm the younger redditor

15 years for me...

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!

In that camp! 10 year old reddit account. Left before the change and haven't looked back. Like the vibe here too much.

Trying to let go, but the transition is a little hard. Still, 12 years over there.

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.

13 years old account. Purged my account yesterday

I was an 11 year redditor that now runs his own Lemmy instance.

/waves_hand

I'm not sure how old my account was before I deleted it, but it was 12+ years.

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.

16 year club here.

10 plus years, deleted the entire account the day they killed third party apps. Never looked back once.

11 years on reddit. I deleted all comments and posts before deleting my account

12y

13 years. Found Reddit from visiting Popurls after ditching Digg, after leaving Catch.

16 years.

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.

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.

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.

Rolling up on my 10th year (September). There are some subs where I haven't been able to find an equivalent community anywhere else, so I have an RSS feed pulling in posts from those places, but Lemmy and Tildes are covering the bulk of it for me.

13 years. Deleted my account but forgot the stuff I had saved ☹️

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.