Reddit

I joined reddit 2009, so I suppose 14 years. Back then I was more using Slashdot.

I can't check right now, but I know for certain I had at least 13 years

Raises hand. ~13 year old account, just deleted it and basically haven’t gone back and don’t intend to.

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...

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

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

That would be me. Fuck Reddit.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

15+ years for me. Idon't miss it as much as I thought I would.

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.

At least 10 years....won't go and check. I'm working hard to get the hang of the fediverse and being patient while it grows up. I'll check a few niche subjects on Reddit but without a phone app my usage is down like 98%. Not posting or voting. Obligatory fuck /u/spez. What a dumbass maneuver he pulled...so many other choices. Can't wait for him to go down in flames....

Raises hand 11 years. I too switched to Reddit when digg went south.

I think u/jackcooper made it to 10? I was on 2-3 years before making an account

8 Years+ due to being an account-less lurker. Still use for official subreddits and occasional boredom. I guess having twice the content is also fine.

13 years on Reddit.

11 years here. Deleted all my posts (not that I was a crazy prolific poster, but it still took hours and hours with the tool running).

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.

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.

Yo. ✋

12 years here, started using it regularly after they killed Google reader.

Lurked reddit since 2006 (a year after it was founded); joined in 2008.

Leaving wasn't easy. Quitting tobacco was less difficult. But fuck 'em. I'm done.

11 years. Was using Apollo, now on Voyager! It’s like nothing has changed, except fewer bots.

14 years with a reddit account, I lurked for a couple years before that. I lurked on Digg from 05-07 before a nerdy friend introduced me to Reddit. I've never moderated, I mostly read and contribute to communities about local news or communities relevant to my hobbies.

@BuckRowdy https://i.imgur.com/SB2W3gI.png
The only real reddit drama that I personally was invested was r/animemes with Trap ban, so it's easy to ignore chat, follows, cryptocurency, Reddit becoming close sourced, Avatars (I set up one and change it 1 time when free was given and like ehh it's gamer thingy lookalike will use it).
I got my GPDR or how it called request, but didn't login till day 20 and you have 7 days to download and 30 to request link... well I requested link 3 times and still error.

Twelve years on reddit and just about as long using reddit is fun, but now I'm gone.

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

Me

Approaching 11 years

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I think I hit my 12 year cake day shortly before leaving for good, and that wasn't my first account.

14 years here… before the Digg migration even

Me. Around 10-11 year account. It sucks since Reddit has been my landing page ever since joining. It really hurts that greed destroyed a good thing we have there.

But I feel that lemmy has something better to offer.

12 years on site, but only really started getting active over the past couple of years. Considered modding, but didn't feel like I could justify the time commitment as a hobby at this stage. For something new/different/noteworthy, I may have to rethink that stance.