Reddit

Not totally sure off the top of my head but I guess I was on Reddit for about 13 years, give or take. I moderated some communities for many years as well.

I'm done now.

I have not found replacements for most of my Reddit communities — not the ones I actually cared about. It's a crying shame that online communities keep getting fractured by shitty corporate behavior (see Twitter). That is the main reason I will not get involved with another proprietary platform. Why should I invest my time and effort into building a community that will eventually be ripped to shreds by profiteers?

I don't know if Lemmy is "the one" but I feel like the principles of the fediverse have legs. The internet is going to have some growing pains in the coming years, and it's going to take a long time for anything like Lemmy to reach critical mass. I mean, even Reddit was still kind of niche when you compare it to, say, Twitter or Facebook. My grandma's on Twitter and Facebook, while Reddit even to this day is too technical for "the masses".

Honestly, it took me longer than it should have. I should have ditched Reddit years ago. But I'm here for it now. Fuck Musk, fuck Spez, and fuck the advertising-supported corporate hellscape of the modern internet in general.

Of course, many of these problems will come to the fediverse as well. Instances do indeed cost money to run. Too much for an intrepid webmaster to pay out of their own pocket just for fun in the long-term. Lemmy might just be a stepping stone.

12 years this month. Left with the 3rd party apps. Might have stayed for some niche communities, but just happened to get suspended while nuking my comment history, appealed, and got permabanned as a response... so Reddit made the final choice for me.

I used it for about 11 or 12 years. Stopped when rif died. I do occasionally go there if I need reviews but only in my web browser.

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Been on reddit since ~2010, and paid Premium without interruption ever since they had it. I stopped paying Premium and logged out (haven't deleted my account tbh, but logging out made it annoying enough to interact with the site that it worked for me 😆).

And I found out: Less social media in my life is good. I browse Lemmy some, Tildes some, Firefish/Mastodon some, but honestly, far far less than I used to, and that's cool. Cheers to spez fixing my social media addiction! 🥂

12 years. I was part of the Digg migration. I used to love Digg. Then a bunch of corporate asshole decided to run Digg into the ground and a new found love for Reddit slowly bloomed out of that. I am still hoping to find that love for Lemmy. It's not quite there yet, but it is only a matter of time as I really appreciate the good vibes here.

13 years here, and I don't miss it

12 yr here, but my shameful confession is my porn account on Reddit lurks like normal. At least they don't get ad revenue from it!

Ten years and 150k comment karma.

10 years of doom scrolling I feel much better not being on reddit

raises hand

17 years

Haven't logged back in since my 3rd party client stopped working.

14 years. The reddit protest was a great way to exit an unhealthy relationship with a site that was devouring way too much of my time. But now lemmy is slowly starting to draw me in more and more...

Replaced all my posts and comments using power suite.
Didn’t delete the account but removed any value

I think I'm about to hit the 15 year mark there. Still visit from time to time and probably will until the niche communities I like there are all replicated there but I'm already habituated to clicking Lemmy rather than Reddit when I'm bored.

I won't miss it, it has already been a shell of its former self for years. The community is still fine but always getting more mainstream. The UI is horrendous though, especially on a desktop browser with all the mouseovers always getting in your way to show you some useless profile pic of a user or sub. Won't miss that for a second.

11 years here. No intention of going back.

10 years here, haven't modded anything and was mostly active in a few relatively niche subreddits, so, unfortunately, currently Lemmy can't fill the void quitting Reddit left (yet), but still not looking back.

Not giving the corporate fucks at Reddit any more free content. If you're living off the community, don't shit on the community.

17+ years. It had been going downhill for a while, but the disdain for the volunteer mods and cutting BaconReader and the API changes was to much.

Not sure how long but pre-Digg.

I remember feeling a kind of resentment when the Digg exodus happened at the time but hey. Lemmy reminds me of that time once again.

Props to y'all, I have no clue when I started. I had one account, then I lost it because I forgot about it and made another one year or two later. And then another one cuz I wanted it to be linked to my user name in one of my games.

All I remember was that I quit that game after 5+ years of playing, and I had account 1-2 years prior. And that quitting date was somewhere in 2019, so that's like 2014ish or so, I guess I might have been a Redditor for almost 10+/- years.

But yeah, since the blackout. I've been browsing Lemmy and Mastodon whenever Lemmy goes down. No regret, I've been enjoying the new experience and it got me to browse a bit less than usual due to less content overall but still it's positive.

Rooting hard for fediverse to go off!

11year veteran here. Echoing what others have said that the fediverse is a much calmer, civilised place,at least for now!

12 year account, haven’t been back since the blackout started

11 years. I commented a lot and had a decent trickle of reasonably successful posts over that time.

I got banned just before all this happened because I made an anti-tankie post in an unrelated sub, then gamingcirclejerk auto-banned me with the message "beep boop gamer detected!", whereupon I replied, "What the fuck? Do you have literally any explanation for this?" and then I was banned for "harrassment".

Just basically a sitewide policy being abused by authoritarian assholes. They abuse their mod powers to harrass users they don't like to provoke a reaction, and the second you say a naughty word they go running to the admins to kick you off the site completely.

I then didn't make another account until I needed to to ask for support on one of the niche communities. I noticed in that time that my mental health improved enormously. This place is a lot nicer and I hope it can catch enough refugees to get critical mass and displace reddit. I'm sure it'll change as it grows but I'm really excited to see how different the culture will be as that happens.

16 years on Reddit here but I was never a big user. In its early days it was a less toxic version of Digg but then Reddit itself eventually became Digg.

I wish these sites would use a more Slashdot-like moderation system. Not everyone deserves an equal vote especially with all the bots running around. Or Ars-like if you absolutely can't live without the pure democratic system.

Only a 7-year old account here but I almost exclusively used Apollo. After seeing how Spez (and company) treated Christian and the moderators (which do their work for free), I decided to never give that site any traffic anymore. Am very happy I found Lemmy!

13 year club. I only hopped on one time since the blackout when I got a notification on my Joey client about them discontinuing gold. Just went around and awarded all mine to old comments. The dev of Joey said it was shutdown so I was surprised it worked still.

17 years. Deleted all posts and comments and I avoid it unless I google something and there's something relevant

About 15 years, various accounts. I left June 30. I have to browse some subreddits simply because their content is so niche, but I do so anonymously, without an active account. Wishing it was easier for some of those communities to migrate and hoping that in time they will.

I've been on Reddit for 10 years and now I use Reddit very rarely (only when I feel like a community on Reddit is the only place for me to get info about a specific thing). Now I frequent Lemmy (and Kbin) instead for news, discussions and memes.

Nearly 12 year account on reddit here. Haven't deleted it yet, but I've stopped browsing reddit for a month now and replaced it with Lemmy/kbin/Mastodon. Don't see myself ever going back.

12 years here and I am not going back

I walked out after fourteen years, leaving behind my r/feminineboys that I built from zero to 200K over a decade, and I’m not looking back.

Apollo or die.

Or Voyager now, I suppose.

I'm right around the 10 year mark. Mostly lurked.

10. Not completely gone but cut back about 95%

This is better. Everyone reminisces about reddit before reddit got huge. Today, reddit is acting as a filter to attract people who want a more social media, gamified experience. That's a good thing for the Lemmy community.

15 year here. And I probably used reddit for a while before making an account.

I was a 14-year user and haven't logged in since before the blackout. I'm glad I got to be around to witness some of the old classics but so be it. I hope lemmy can become a repository of comparable knowledge in time.

11 years, haven’t logged in since Apollo was killed.

I have the 10 years trophy and nearly 30K karma but I barely use reddit anymore except to moderate a community. I've been using Lemmy to some extent.

A bit over ten years, left on the eve of the big change. Haven't been back. Don't miss it.

Thanks to lemmy being broken every now and then, I can do stuff sometimes, which is nice.

Had a 12 year old account, wiped and deleted

Yo. Purged then deleted a 12 year old account. Feels good man.

::Raises Hand:: 12 year club here.

I, too, am Spartacus.

~13 years, nuked my account. Fuck Spez.