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Me. I was either 10 years or very close to it. The loss of Relay was one thing, but the general douchebaggery that followed was the end for me.
I did.
Honestly Lemmy isn't proving particularly great yet; most of the top posts are from terminally-online agenda posters banging the same identity politics drum I couldn't escape on Reddit.
I think the main reason is the smaller communities here haven't reached critical mass yet. I'm not going back to Reddit, though, because I produced a lot of content for them over the years and they repaid me with a terrible user experience and endless adverts.
Hopefully it'll get better here. If not, maybe something else will pop up. Or I can just find an extra hobby.
15 years for me...
13 years old account. Purged my account yesterday
Yeah. I got tired of posting and a message saying "you cant post that for sake of our community" across almost every single subreddit. If I see that shit on lemmy I'll make sure to block the entire server that has lemmys doing that. Its one thing to can some bots. Its another to have game devs as subreddit mods block negative sentiment for example, or an overzealous mod push their views and just delete comments.
Its not like I'm out there posting some insane content, either. I tried posting a 15 second video of a funny bug of a dude stuck spinning around to crab rave and I couldn't even post that to the diablo 4 games subreddit.
Trying to let go, but the transition is a little hard. Still, 12 years over there.
Well over 10 years. Mostly comments rather than posts. Dropped out at the end of June and haven't been back. So far Lemmy and Mastodon have filled the gap.
In that camp! 10 year old reddit account. Left before the change and haven't looked back. Like the vibe here too much.
I think I joined around 2010-2011. Reddit feels soulless now, and I'm happy to use the fediverse instead.
No, I'm Spartacus!
17 years. I was never very active in commenting or posting, but quite addicted to reading and voting. But every good thing comes to an end, and I've known for some time that something this useful and interesting would eventually draw the attention of greedy minds (which happened awhile ago) and that they would eventually try to limit access to increase their profits (which just happened). So now it's time to move on. I'm doing this gradually, but it will happen.
I was part of the great Digg migration. I won't say that I've sworn off Reddit completely, but I will say that I start here on Lemmy. The volume of content on Reddit is still so huge compared to Lemmy that it is likely to take a lot longer than the mass switch that I was sort of hoping for away from Reddit.
16 year club here.
I am
I'm not completely off reddit yet (reduced interaction but still disentangling from it, it'll probably take a little while yet to be completely gone), but I made the account I have there now in August 2008, just shy of 15 years ago. I lurked for a good while before making that account though. (edit: > 150K comment karma, most participation on low volume subs)
12 years. Only go to the website when a search sends me there. Was active daily before all this stuff.
Part of the Digg Exodus, and now part of the Reddit Exodus. I was on Reddit before the Digg collapse but rarely.
here here
Somewhere around 12-13 years here. Moved here for better content and a functional app.
I'm one ~70k karma and 11 years. Originally landed on the site at the peak of f7u12
I haven't fully left but I am spending less time there: no mobile use, limited moderation etc
I've been a redditor for as long as I can remember, decided I had enough mid June. Sad to see what has become of the site. Lemmy has its quirks but it is a far better community.
Pity there are members here that still treat this place like it's reddit. Sensitive, hungry for validation, treating new posters like they ain't shit.. aye bro?
Only 2.5 years here, I'm the younger redditor
13+ years here, haven't been back since the API debacle happened and my favorite app Sync went under.
Pretty excited though since I'm new here and just read that Sync is coming back as a Lemmy app soon!
Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i'm basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.
10 years overall for me. I still browse some niche subreddits by RSS only and no longer comment or vote.
And my blanket!
12 years here sounding off
I joined in 2011 and left as soon as Spez got caught trying to accuse Christian Selig of blackmail. I didn't want to help someone so clearly divorced from any reasonable standard of ethics make money
13 Years, 300k+ karma. Haven't been on reddit since Jun 30th, and I don't plan on ever going back.
Ever since "new reddit", I only ever used old.reddit with RES. The writing is on the wall, and old.reddit will soon be on the chopping block too.
Fuck the enshitification of reddit.
I had 16 years.
Mostly lurked since 2009, but always had an account so I could vote. Started commenting and posting more over time, to the point it was too much, having pointless internet arguments as a substitute for doomscrolling. So when I got the first notification about the API changes in RiF, decided it was time to cut the cord. I'd already mostly come around to the conclusion that I'd been wasting my time there, but I had a notion that it was somehow OK because the place I'd chosen to waste it was somehow different and better in comparison to other social media. It wasn't that I wanted to get on a boycott bandwagon. But the API decision, the thinly veiled intent of their ridiculous pricing, and their steadfastness in making no subsequent attempt to mitigate the changes whatsoever truly was the tipping point where I could no longer do the mental gymnastics required to con myself into wasting more time there.
15 years, reddit gold charter member, Secret Santa, all that stuff. And longer than 15 really, if you count the browsing I did before I made my account (I remember before subreddits were even a thing, when reddit was literally just a front page).
Still visit on desktop sometimes because unfortunately some people will probably never leave and there are communities that are useful to me that haven't migrated. Same with with Twitter, which is frustrating to no end because they spend half of their time complaining about the site but never actually fucking leave.
My mobile usage is completely gone though. I used RIF for over a decade, I'm not using anything else.
16 years and one month on my main. Now onto my third lemmy server. Hope things settle here as it has a little bit of that early days of the Internet magic.
I was an 11 year redditor that now runs his own Lemmy instance.
Yep. Since 2011. Fucking bye.
'ello there! I have my 11 year badge on my primary reddit account. I haven't bothered to go back to reddit, and I don't really have much desire. I'm splitting my time pretty evenly between Lemmy and Squabbles.
I also appreciate that neither of these communities have been completely co-opted by psycho alt-right nutjobs like Voat was.
edit: my biggest regret was that I was something like 12k comment karma away from making it to centuryclub :( that was kind of a big deal as a casual poster who usually showed up to threads way too late.
11 years - RIF on mobile and Apollo on ipad so lost access on both. Didn't bother deleting my account as I mostly lurked. Weekend of 1st-2nd July was rough and then I was surprised how little I missed my daily scrolling. Lemmy has enough news, memes and gaming to fill the gap.
Only 7 years for me, but long enough to hope they miss my traffic.