Reddit

I made my first account in 2007. I ended up deleting it before long but I made another in 2009, which I deleted a couple of weeks ago (after manually deleting every comment and post I had ever made).

Officially, I had just reached the 14-year club.

Scrubbed and deleted a 12yr account and haven't been back.

9 years and 9 months currently.

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Sup.

12+ years, Digg->Reddid refugee here

My oldest account is at 9 years 10 months at the moment. Was a lurker for a time before that too. I haven't deleted my accounts out of concern of my comments reappearing, but I've kept any interaction with that site at a minimum.

Most of the time, I just check to see if any comments resurfaced, or if I've got a love letter from the admins. Neither has happened so far, but I'm not sure it won't happen. Until then, I will keep scrubbing my accounts.

I don't see myself returning there. I've lost any desire to do so, and my old, yet scrubbed accounts will serve as a reminder never to interact with that site ever again. Peek, if I must, but never interact.

12+years. Deleted my primary and secondary accounts. Haven't looked back.

12 years here, quit reddit.

Yep. Since 2011. Fucking bye.

Me!

9.5ish here

Part of the Digg Exodus, and now part of the Reddit Exodus. I was on Reddit before the Digg collapse but rarely.

About 13 years. I've been wanting to leave to something else for some time. Dropped it once lemmy became viable for me to stay. I have popped back on for a minute or two here and there. But it's just becoming increasingly foreign and unpalatable. The more they change it, the less interest I have in ever looking at it again.

Two accounts. One I used to moderate that I made in 2009, and my other account was made about 10 years ago.

Used RIF on mobile and RES on desktop.

Now I use neither, deleted my moderator account and just left my more personal account to rot. (Don't want to delete everything on that one just yet).

Think I was 14 or 15. Only go on when Googling answers to things and.theres too many AI articles in the results.

About 14 years or so for me. Was starting to get a bit bored of that place anyway. I've been enjoying Lemmy a lot so far.

15 year account deleted, and there was about a one week period where I felt like I was missing something, but I forced myself to stay off of it, and Lemmy helped, I probably couldn't have done it without Lemmy.

Reddit has been absolute shit for at least the last 5 years anyway, I just kept going out of habit... Lemmy is better and reminds me of what initially attracted me to reddit in the beginning.

Anyway, I no longer even have the slightest hint of missing it after that first week of deleting it. That is actually surprising to me. I would have thought after 15 years it might take longer to get over it, but nah, it's actually dead to me. And I say, good riddance to it.

Just checked, apparently my first account is actually a bit over 10 years old. I haven't fully cut ties with reddit yet, but I'm interested in Lemmy, and participating a little.

I intend to be an annoying cunt on reddit constantly saying "Lemmy is better" whenever that statement can actually pass as true to a general audience. And I fully intend to violate the fuck out of the "you can't make a new account when we ban you"-rule if I end up getting banned for it.

10 years when I deleted the account.

Now just tears in the rain.

Got my first Reddit account in 2012 (which unfortunately was hacked in 2020 and got shut down). So I have used Reddit for 11 years at this point. I have been sick of the direction Reddit is going for a while, and when I realized Lemmy had started seeing some traffic I thought it was time to give this place a shot. So far Lemmy feels a bit like Reddit used to, which isn't a bad thing.

Me

Me. Even paid for Premium for a few years too cuz I wanted to support the site

13 years on Reddit.

16 years. Fuck /u/spez

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.

I don’t know how long I was on Reddit… more than 8 years because it was before my first kid was born. Probably at least ten. Not signing in to check though.

I have been trying to make the switch to Lemmy but frankly the content on here is very low quality compared to Reddit for now...

16 years there. Once Boost stopped working I got off the site and migrated here. I've read threads that come up in Google searches, and looked at some specialty subs since, but nothing longer than 5 minutes every few days.

I've not fully left but I'm spending a lot more time on here and Aether than I am on Reddit

10 years and the day Apollo died my towel went with it

I sure hope places for NFL and NHL pick up cause so far the MLB game threads are a ghost town

12 years here, across two accounts. I nuked the last day that RIF was able to be used.

I only go back because of the Ukraine Subreddit. Once the war is over I will be done with that site.

The main page yesterday was almost all Bot spam from what I saw before jumping to war updates. It was really noticeable and only served to reinforce that I should be done over there. Random misspelled posts, or words that shouldn't be present, or even just totally mislabeled posts with 2k+ karma.

Noticing it made me pause and wonder just how bad is reddit now, and when will Elon buy it and rebrand it to Xeddit or something similar

I started lurking Reddit around 2010, actually got an account in 2012, to comment and upvote.

Before that, I was somewhat active from the mid to late 2000s in the MxTabs Forums (musician forum), Last.fm, and a brief stint at 4chan (never again).

Started at MxTabs in like middle school. They were having on/off problems with music industry assholes because we were "stealing sheet music." Around 05-06, Mx started having an exodus because of copyright issues, a couple DDOS attacks, a spam brigade attack and just people moving on to other places, so I started hanging out more on Last.fm. It was a fun and more relaxed community. Mx, while fun, was a bit more snobbish and took posting way more seriously than Reddit ever did.

By the time I reached college in 08-09, I hung out for a bit on 4chan. But it was too much, although I was there for the whole "New Users can't Triforce" thing (instead of users they said a homophobic slur). In which they coerced some kid into bricking his family's PC, to make an ascii art version of the Triforce from Zelda games. Basically like this:

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(EDIT: Can't format it on Lemmy, despite the preview showing it)

Eventually made it to Reddit, from IRL friends talking about it a lot. At the time, Reddit was like 4chan lite. So the meme cycle started in 4chan, Tumblr or Reddit (mostly 4chan, though). Made it's way to 9gag, where it got more traction, because my girlfriend at the time would send me 9gag meme links, that I had already seen on Reddit. Then it'd move to Instagram, Twitter, sometimes Vine, get beaten over the head on Facebook and a hollowed-out version of it would finally die during late-night comedy skits and monologues.

I was on Reddit for a lot of fucked-up, weird, tragic and funny shit that went down there. Obama's AMA, the whole shit with Ellen Pao and banning r/fatpeoplehate, Woody Harelson's AMA, Wycleaf Jean's AMA (a similar but lesser talked-about AMA disaster), the whole Boston Bombers incident, Pizzagate, Aaron Swartz's passing. When the_donald started "as a joke" and then went full batshit, racist (it was always there festering under, until the egregiousness hit a critical mass). The fappening, all the gore subreddits that got banned, the first version of r/place, live broadcasts during COVID and all the insane amounts of misinformation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the daily megathreads and now the whole fuck spez thing.

Granted forgetting a bunch more, but I was probably there for that. Left there as soon as I couldn't access through Apollo. Although, for years I used Alien Blue, then it started going to shit once Reddit got it and started forcing me to make an avatar and giving me free flair.

Now, I only lurk desktop on Firefox, just a couple communities, but a few of them are starting to pick up on Lemmy, so we'll see how this transition goes.

Damn, I just realized I've seen a lot of internet culture in this time. Like on man regaling on past tales, despite being 33.

About 11 years, here. I only go back occasionally to look at some communities that haven't really moved here yet that are important to me, but other than that, I steer clear of Reddit and I prefer Lemmy now.

11 years here, going back every now and then only on desktop. Probably dropped my usage by 99%

I was in the 13 year club, and most of that was using RIF.

I had been lurking since ~2011. Probably racked up around 15 comments total, but it was a near-daily visit.

11 years - RIF on mobile and Apollo on ipad so lost access on both. Didn't bother deleting my account as I mostly lurked. Weekend of 1st-2nd July was rough and then I was surprised how little I missed my daily scrolling. Lemmy has enough news, memes and gaming to fill the gap.

14 year old here. I've been back a few times to run Power Delete Suite to modify my existing comments, then delete them. Not sure what's happening, but the above is "a few times" as I checked once and sure enough some of my deleted comments were reappearing on that damned site!

I've also deleted all saved comments, etc.

13 years here

✋ 15ish years. Left after Reddit confirmed they wouldn't be changing the policy