13 years for me and fuck Reddit. I don't see myself going back.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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Around 12 years of reddit here. Completely purged my account and then deleted it. Haven't been back since.
Noticed that google which is basically a glorified reddit search engine, has become even worse
I had various accounts over the years, but switched from Digg, which must've been pre-2010.
It's sad, but most communities felt crowded with people jumping down other people's throats, so I don't miss many
My first account is a little over 12 years old. I catch myself opening up reddit everyone once and a while but have basically completely left at this point. Hadn't been happy with what it's become for years and the most recent shit storm just seemed like a good time to call it quits. 7ish years ago I used to spend a ton of time on the investing subreddits, such as the now notorious and huge wallstreetbets.
The communities I enjoyed have all been overrun and ruined. Reddit became a victim of its own size long ago. Everything is just lowest common dominator crap now. The investing subreddits like wallstreetbets are the most obvious to me. They're just large scale pump and dumps for crypto and meme stocks now. It's ridiculous.
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11+ years, lurked longer than that. It's probably easier to make the change to Lemmy if you've seen the descent.
12 years here
Me, got on reddit in 2008 or 9.
11+ years, here
I probably started roughly in 2013. I was already pretty tired of the site. It's been a shell of what it was for quite a while. This was the last straw for me to go to the effort of finding something else.
Me
13 years one account, 9 years the other.
After the API enshittification clarion, I sat down for hours and munged every. single. damn. comment with a complaint about this.
THEN I deleted the accounts.
For now, Lemmy is merely potential, but shaping up. Mastodon is microblogging and is built around individuals promoting themselves, so it feels egotistical, but it's more mature than Lemmy so I lurk there for now too.
Ultimately I am a forum user, as a participant in a conversation. Looking forward to that again.
Don’t know my exact age and can’t check as I post this because I refuse to visit reddit on my phone via anything but Apollo. But I’m pretty sure I’m 10+.
I do miss it. Once a month or so I’ll go peek at a couple smaller communities/game communities I was in that don’t have a Lemmy equivalent yet.
But I don’t comment anymore. I canceled my reddit premium the moment Apollo mentioned shut down. And I learned how to use the stronger mode of uBlock Origin to ensure they get as little from me as possible.
The site as I see it os shattered and barely functional. I can let what I’m used to shine through when I really want to by enabling certain domains to pass through uBlock Origin and NoScript. But tbh the shattered state is kind of fittingly metaphorical.
I was a bit over 12 if I remember right.
I don't miss it at all.
10 years, haven't used it at all since Sync stopped working. I'm enjoying Lemmy, not very many niche communities but I'm sure that will catch up
12 years. Wiped my account and deleted it. Even the porn alt
12 years and I am not missing it.
Can't be bothered the check but close to 10 years, fuck that site!
11 years here. Made the jump shortly after the protests died down and Huffman made it clear that he didn't care who the changes impacted.
Not sure how long I was there, but well over ten years. Deleted my account and am done.
13
14 years. Reddit has been shit for a while tho.
I've been on Reddit for 10+, but I haven't actually left yet, this isn't quite a full replacement for me.
I started using Reddit back in 2015, now i'm over it, its become corporate.
I have the 5 year trophy. Not nearly as many years as 10, but still something. I also left Reddit.
15 years here
12 years I think for my imekon account on reddit.
15 year Reddit user. Had my account banned for suggesting that a pedophile should have been taken out behind a building and shot. Up until that point, I hadn't even had so much as a suspension. It started with being banned from subs I never visited or commented in. I remember I had gotten into an argument with a mod and was accused of racism. To prove my racism, they used the "N word count bot", which came up with zero uses of the word in the entire 15 years I was on Reddit, which I think hurt the other person's feelings. His account had multiple uses. I really didn't think much of it and left Reddit alone for a couple of days due to being busy with work. When I went to log back in, I saw that I had been suspended for 30 days, and a week after that, I was permanently banned. Personally, think a lot of it had to do with my being subscribed and was active in some subs that were in direct contrast to Reddit's majority political ideology. I was told there are ways around a Reddit ban but I don't care enough to put in that much work to make another account.
Joined in January, 2013 so just over 10 years. Ialmost exclusively lurked though.
Miss RiF.... But it was perhaps all for the better... Even if we had to make some sacrifices.
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17 years. Probably the only site other than Google I've visited almost every day since then. It's extremely depressing to lose Reddit after all that time. But I'm enjoying Lemmy, and hoping we can grow it Digg-exodus-style.