My oldest, out of 5, account was 13y. I fucking loved reddit, but the last 5-6 years it was still easily 1-2hours a day but on tablet and phone. Always RIF. Since RIF is gone I only have being back on my porn account through browser.
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Yep. Since 2011. Fucking bye.
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.
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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.
That would be me. Fuck Reddit.
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 year club, left when Apollo died, so far haven’t gone back.
what was reddit, can someone describe it.. was that like napster or something.. but yeah, i had a 10 year account or something.. now they couldn't pay me to post to their site..
Approaching 11 years
A bit over 10 years for me. Haven't looked back. That shit was rough.
12 almost 13 years, discovered it just before the digg Exodus. Didn't know digg, never used Twitter, not much Facebook presence. Before Reddit it was gamefaqs, icanhascheeseburger Ctrl alt del and wimp. Now it's gamefaqs steam and Lemmy.
11 years here
I joined before Obama was president so that's checks calendar 15+ years.
~14 years. Between the Fediverse and sites, like Squabbles, Mastodon, Lemmy of course, kbin, and Beehaw, I can browse more content than Reddit while individual sites build up more content. Now I use Reddit only about 1% as much as I did in the past, usually only when a Google search directs me there for a quick answer. Deleting my account felt really good too.
About 15 here
9 years on reddit. I didn't post a lot of content or comments but I read a lot. As soon as they killed 3rd party apps, I left. And switched to lemmy. I like it here. I think I already posted more comments here, than on reddit. I don't miss reddit at all.
I was right at the 10 year mark myself. I only use it now when a thread comes up in a search, I don't ever go there just for the sake of it anymore.
12+ years here. Deleted all my content and account.
Think I was 14 or 15. Only go on when Googling answers to things and.theres too many AI articles in the results.
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
God knows how long I'd been on Reddit. Easily 10+ and multiple accounts later.
Not quite 10, but close. I joined the site in 2014. Permanently deleted my account at the end of June.
Ten-Year Club member here. Still need to sometimes to completely quit reddit.
Had an account since 2011. Deleted it mid July. Haven’t logged in once. I miss the metalcore community but that’s about it.
Raises hand. ~13 year old account, just deleted it and basically haven’t gone back and don’t intend to.
I've been on Reddit since 2012, but I haven't quite quit Reddit completely. It fills the same role as twitter now, where I go there to interact with specific communities but never scroll through the front page any more.
10+ years here, not sure how long because I deleted my account.
I deleted it towards the end of June, when Christian announced Apollo was closing down, and how Spez fucked him by twisting his comments.
I was very active in *Nix subs, like Linux, Ubuntu, elementaryOS, helping users. I was also active in the macOS patching subs (mojave / Catalina / OpenCore legacy), with guides and news. So there's definitely some substance lost by me deleting all my posts / comments. Do I care? Not really.
I'm Spartacus.
I deleted my account of 17 years
Me!
13 years. I lurked a few years before creating an account. Been using Lemmy for the most part since the Apollo app shut down a month ago. I still append "reddit" to my searches though, so I occasionally end up there for older content.
12 years.
170k karma. Nuked my post history a month ago. I'll occasionally look at reddit on my work desktop but I'm absolutely not installing the app
16yrs, made an account before the Digg drama, migrated there after.
I’ve not been back since, other than friends linking to stuff there basically
11 years. Should have left multiple times during that stint but RIF shutting down was the last nail in the coffin.
Eight years almost to the day between leaving Reddit then joining here, but I feel like a refugee multiple times over.
Old BBSes briefly; then IRC then and that chat thing Wired had for a while; the various Yahoo boards; Facebook (shudder, only a year or so); but mainly this one forum I loved that Twitter killed; Digg a little on the side; then Metafilter for more than a decade before I buttoned and came to Reddit.
I agree with wreel (how do we "@" people here?) that this feels a lot like the early fora of the original www, even a bit like BBSes on steroids at times.
I started using reddit during the digg migration. I lurked, replied to stuff and tried to upvote sanity in technical threads occasionally.
A year or so ago during a work trip to another continent I found that my account had been banned for "violation of the content policy". I worked their process to try and figure out why, but the replies were totally vague and either bot like or possibly written by someone with english as a second language.
It turned out that at the point I was banned I hadn't actually posted anything in over a year, so I really didn't have anything to go off. It is still a total mystery to me. I created a new account ( which I know they could consider ban evasion ) so I could copy my subscribed subreddits over and I was just lurking for the last year or so until the noise from their API changes pointed me at all the current alternatives. So here I am checking out the alternatives.
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.
I was an active Digger and Redditor in 2006-7 then migrated fully to Reddit post digg-tastrophy. I’ve honestly found it hard to stay away from Reddit but the existence of Lemmy world and the fact that I just discovered they took Aaron Schwartz off the list of cofounders is strengthening my resolve. Thank you all for being here.
Edited to add - I have no intention of returning to Reddit. The average person has precious little they can do to change the tides of fortune, but one of them is to consistently vote with their wallet. In this case, our attention is filling their wallet, so I remove my attention and clicks.
Digg refugee, I've had a couple 10+ year accts until the doxxing. Then I started flipping accts on the regular to prevent that. Modded a few subs until the admin IP banned me for being critical of the direction they are going.
So now I'm here and to be frank a lot happier.
10 years when I deleted the account.
Now just tears in the rain.
11 years. Fuck spez
Nearly 14 years, right after digg imploded.
Deleted mine a month ago.
I don't miss it one bit.