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12 years and honestly it’s a welcome change. I see others upset at the content quality but for me it’s a breath of fresh air and gives me good vibes.
I deleted sync off my phone, I still check on desktop but my usage has gone down 90% easily. Same with Twitter.
The alternatives are great, but they are still young and don't have the userbase in the niche subs I frequent.
Bacon it was my jam. Spent 11 years there. Only slightly miss it to be honest.
12 years on Reddit. Found it after digg messed with their site design causing a mass exodus. Now it’s happening again! Weee!
Me.
I was on Reddit for around 11 years. Zero regrets leaving.
Long time Usenet user, started Reddit in Feb 2013. There were a few scandals and growing pains, but it always felt like a (somewhat rowdy) community. As a user-centric volunteer generated forum I never imagined it would succumb to corporate greed, but here we are. Or, there we were. Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air.
Still participate in a few communities sparingly. My activity is single points of what it used to be.
I lurked from 2007 to 2009, finally created an account in 2009, and used just that one through maybe the first 5 years or so. In 2014 I started creating alts and deleting old accounts just to be able to cycle through some kind of anonymity to prevent cross referencing comments on one topic with my real identity on another. By 2019 I got pretty aggressive about anonymity and increased the number of alts and throwaways I used (and then used throwaway emails to "verify" with reddit, because I stopped trusting them with the backend data that could be used to correlate alts).
I deleted most of my alts, but kept two, for specific niche interests: the one I used to comment on the nuts and bolts of the legal profession, mostly in private subreddits that weren't crawled by search engines (or AI training), and one that participates in my city's subreddit about local issues.
At this point, I think the technology discussions on lemmy/kbin are already at or above the quality of reddit. There's still a ways to go with other general topics of discussion, but I think we'll get there on the big ones. I don't know if the niche topics will really take off, so for now I keep my reddit accounts that correspond to those.
I left digg a long time ago and switched to reddit, account was almost 13 years old. Moving on the Lemmy for similar reason.
10 year Redditor 13 years if we count lurking.
Just discovered Lemmy and plan to leave reddit at least partially. Reduced my time there already by more than 50% since the API stuff.
+1
I was a reddit user for around 7 years, deleted my account once 1 year ago (due to becoming privacy conscious) and tried to minimize my use of it, with occasional relapses.
I was mostly using reddit via libreddit frontend as I would mostly lurk and rarely comment, and because of the loading speed of the website (no need to load and run tons of javascript code every time), but since the API changes I can probably only look at 1 subreddit and around 3 posts before reaching the rate limit. Needless to say, this killed my main way to interact with the platform and seeing that lemmy got a lot more people now, I made an account here yesterday.
I've been on reddit since 2010, stopped when the 3rd parties were killed. The only thing I really miss is magictcg, there's nowhere else online anymore that keeps track of everything. I miss my daily dose of Wizards of the Coast drama
9 years counts right? I havent left-left but I spend most of my time here now.
11 years. Very active commenter.
I've got high hopes for this place and the fedi-verse in general! I think the decentralized nature has so much potential.
My reddit account is a little shy of 10 years, I think I might be at 8 or 9. I haven't really commented on Reddit for a while. I won't delete my account completely, at least not yet. There's some more subs on Reddit that haven't moved to Lemmy/KBin yet, and of course I could be the one to bring them over and create a copycat, but that's a bit of responsibility and work. I am kind of surprised how populated Lemmy is already though.
10 years for me, just had enough
Lurked for a long time then made my account in March of 2013. Had around 180,000 comment Karma. Deleted all my old comments (and some of them even seem to have stayed deleted) and haven't been back in weeks.
12-year club here. I still visit one sub-reddit because it doesn't exist here, but I don't interact. That's about it.
you could create it
My reddit account is 14 years old. I can't say how I found Reddit but I know I was there before the Digg migration.
13-15 years old so. Went there during the Digg migration.
I was there 11 years and only used the Reddit is Fun app. Kind of surprised how easily I was able to just cut it out of my life.
13 years for me. Deleted my account July 1.
10 years on the spot.
Here, but I still use Reddit for (the unfortunately many) communities that haven't migrated to Lemmy
11 years for me
12 years on my account if I remember right. The account still exists, but I'm not logged in anymore - if I need to open reddit as part of a search result, it gets opened in a disposable container tab.
8 years, fully done with reddit now.
I think 10-12 years, I’m not sure, I’ve had a couple accounts over the years.
I do end up back now and then, so many searches lead back to Reddit. But I’m not scrolling anymore.
13 years. At least 1 purely as a lurker before that. Reddit has been in my life longer than my dad 🤣
Sounding off. 15 years. Deleted that thing. Haven't looked back besides checking an occasional subreddit that decided to stay there.
8 years, deleted July 1. I kept a "throwaway" account to lurk when needed. Oh, the irony.
Can't remember when I first started, but I paid for RIF Platinum in May 2014. It's been steadily declining for years, and the new API changes were the final nail in the coffin for me.
Hola! 1 10 year account, 3 accounts at 3+ years.
13 years... Kind of glad to be done with it but I miss some of the niche communities.
11 and I don't miss it anymore
12 years. Shredded it when bacronreader stopped.
11+ years here. Deleted and haven't looked back. I miss my crafting and witchy communities but I don't regret leaving.