I joined in early 2012. In 2015 I became a mod on an active created by a friend for our EDM scene in a fairly major city. I had a Google calendar linked to FB event pages and added events multiple times a week and also helped mod a sub for a record label out of said city with now some widely known national artists. I’ve since moved states and stopped using Reddit after the blackout/API stuff. I miss it.
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Yep was there 12-13 years and haven't been back since sync stopped working.
Adding my hand 12+ years
I haven't officially "quit" Reddit but I am trying to migrate over here. I was with Reddit for 12 years. To be honest the API changes alone would not have made me leave. What drove me away was the fact that so many users were protesting the changes and the admins response was "well we don't need you anyway." I don't want to be part of a site that doesn't care what its users want.
Hopefully enough people who come over to lemmy donate to keep things running with the influx of new users.
Speaking of, is there any "preference" to the three ways of donating on the site? Do any of them have lower fees or anything?
Yup. Surprisingly painless, pleasant even.
12 years!
I deleted my account of over 10 years and only go back anonymously for Ukraine and World News. I haven't found a replacement for those on Lemmy.
I'm trying to remember. I know I had an app for it way back when I had an iPod touch, probably when I had the 3rd gen one.
Can't remember what year it was, but alien blue was still its own thing before it got bought out. I wanna say 12ish years? Can't remember for sure, but pretty sure I'm over 10.
13 years. I'm done with the platform but not just because of their API bullshit.
My worldview and beliefs increasingly seem to fall just slightly outside what Reddit mods and admin find to be acceptable opinion.
I think I'm a pretty logical and reasonable human being, but apparently my beliefs about the way of the world are enough to get me continuously banned from the platform. Genuine 13 year account, then several newer ones. In the end I have just come to terms that Reddit isn't for me. They don't want me there and that's fine.
That would be me.
About a decade or so on Reddit. Most of it through Relay when I was an android user or Apollo for the last few years.
Deleted my account. Don’t really think about Reddit anymore unless it comes up on a news site or here.
13+ here
Account just over 10 years, lurker for even longer. Don't really use it anymore except when following links etc
Can't quite recall how long I was on Reddit for, but I joined very early on. Maybe 14 or 15 years old, my account was? Reddit had been getting rubbish for years, possibly the last 6 or 7. I needed this push, and something about Lemmy reminds me of old Reddit. How it was in the early days. Yes, Lemmy does have some work to do, but I don't think it needs to be as popular as Reddit. Let people use other sites too. Way too much in-fighting and faux-drama on Reddit. Hopefully, Reddit traffic will be split between three or four sites. This may stop many of the stupid clashes.
I used Reddit since 2012 until spez destroyed third party clients
12-13ish years. Deleted at start of June protests because I didn't expect reddit to budge at all
12 years for me, bye bye! I really don't miss it much.
Digg poweruser, joined reddit in the digg exodus, spent many years pissing off redditors through various projects, ShitRedditSays, HailCorporate, GamingCirclejerk, the fun ones come and go in waves of interest as the zeitgeist moves along.
Been on lemmy for 3 years already now.
9y7m with 200k+ karma. I had used Reddit to look at porn for few years before that but finally made an account to ask some tech support question...
I got perma banned not quite a month ago, it was a pretty shitting thing I did so probably deserved it. Definitely helped me in jumping ship.
I made my reddit account when my ex was in the hospital having my daughter. I was on the site for a year or two before that, lurking. All deleted now.
12 years.. I closed my account June 1st haven't even opened the site
I joined back in 2012 because I found more information looking up stuff there than I did on Google. I was one of those poor people who would go on reddit on the computer then go on the app and then go back to my computer. When I caught wind of what was going on with the third party and how it broke my favourite app Bacon Reader, I only went back just to see how many more John Oliver pictures were posted on r/pics and if there was any additional posting on and about pitties.
I changed accounts often but I was using the site from around 2010/11
11 years. Just got my notification that my account data is ready for downloading. When I get time, the next step is to replace all my comments and then delete them prior to deleting my account. No plans to return.
hopped on in 2011. stopped when apollo died
Here here
I joined reddit in 2009 after lurking for a year. Loved it for most of the time. Account now deleted :(
Yeah I hauled ass this year. Logged out and will not go back. It went from decent for years to cumbersome garbage real quick.
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Created my first Reddit acc in 2008
I deleted my 11yr high karma account on 1st July. I had another before that which was a couple of years or so old.
I did it in protest but as an interesting side effect, my mental health has improved slightly. Guess actively engaging with toxicity does have an effect.
On reddit since 2011, used Rif since 2013. Used reddit through browser before that. I still had Rif installed on my phone after the switch to lemmy, and I used to take a look back to reddit every now and then. But now I have a new phone and Rif is not available on the Play store. I refuse to use the reddit app. Good bye Rif, you were my companion for many years.
Yup, when Joey stopped working I tried the Reddit app for a few days, but it was just awful.
So here I am.
12 years, left when Apollo stopped working and went to Lemmy.world... left to another instance today when they started blocking certain communities
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