Reddit

Yep. Since 2011. Fucking bye.

I had been lurking since ~2011. Probably racked up around 15 comments total, but it was a near-daily visit.

Only 7 years for me, but long enough to hope they miss my traffic.

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.

Twelve years on reddit and just about as long using reddit is fun, but now I'm gone.

14 year old here. I've been back a few times to run Power Delete Suite to modify my existing comments, then delete them. Not sure what's happening, but the above is "a few times" as I checked once and sure enough some of my deleted comments were reappearing on that damned site!

I've also deleted all saved comments, etc.

Yeah around 10 years here

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.

I was there for right around 10 years. Deleted all my comments off my main with powerdeletesuite before the api was nuked.

14 years. Mostly on RIF. Deleted my account on the last day. Enjoying it here. Many thanks to all of you!

I used reddit for more than 12 years and I deleted my most recent account and left cold turkey.

Just checked, apparently my first account is actually a bit over 10 years old. I haven't fully cut ties with reddit yet, but I'm interested in Lemmy, and participating a little.

I intend to be an annoying cunt on reddit constantly saying "Lemmy is better" whenever that statement can actually pass as true to a general audience. And I fully intend to violate the fuck out of the "you can't make a new account when we ban you"-rule if I end up getting banned for it.

You can count me as one of them. I was unsatisfied with Reddit for a while, but the recent changes were just too much.

+1 here. I used the same account for over a decade, then left the site when RiF died.

Enshittification strikes again. It was only a matter of time, really. Reddit ownership is neither smart nor innovative. It's no longer a site for users, it's a platform for advertisers.

I made my first account in 2007. I ended up deleting it before long but I made another in 2009, which I deleted a couple of weeks ago (after manually deleting every comment and post I had ever made).

Officially, I had just reached the 14-year club.

Been on Reddit for just a touch over ten years. Still visit it not logged in on a forked Reddit app with ad/telemetry content disabled, but refuse to engage content whatsoever.

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

9.5ish here

I torched all my content. In hindsight I should’ve left a way for people to contact me in case I’d posted a solution to a problem. But it’s too late now.

I pretty much left right after the digg redesign which turned the site into a tabloid. More than a decade ago.

16 years there. Once Boost stopped working I got off the site and migrated here. I've read threads that come up in Google searches, and looked at some specialty subs since, but nothing longer than 5 minutes every few days.

Two accounts. One I used to moderate that I made in 2009, and my other account was made about 10 years ago.

Used RIF on mobile and RES on desktop.

Now I use neither, deleted my moderator account and just left my more personal account to rot. (Don't want to delete everything on that one just yet).

Yup, 11 or 12 on the account with this name, plus a few before that under a no longer extant account, and a few months without an account as a lurker before that.

10 years, pretty much on the nose, I was there until RIF went away, and been here since.

Lurked reddit since 2006 (a year after it was founded); joined in 2008.

Leaving wasn't easy. Quitting tobacco was less difficult. But fuck 'em. I'm done.

Me. Even paid for Premium for a few years too cuz I wanted to support the site

I made it about 12 years or so on Reddit. There are days where I do miss the place, but Kbin and Tumblr have been quite adequate replacements, I find.

I also feel like both sites are much friendlier as a general rule.

I'm Spartacus.

I started lurking Reddit around 2010, actually got an account in 2012, to comment and upvote.

Before that, I was somewhat active from the mid to late 2000s in the MxTabs Forums (musician forum), Last.fm, and a brief stint at 4chan (never again).

Started at MxTabs in like middle school. They were having on/off problems with music industry assholes because we were "stealing sheet music." Around 05-06, Mx started having an exodus because of copyright issues, a couple DDOS attacks, a spam brigade attack and just people moving on to other places, so I started hanging out more on Last.fm. It was a fun and more relaxed community. Mx, while fun, was a bit more snobbish and took posting way more seriously than Reddit ever did.

By the time I reached college in 08-09, I hung out for a bit on 4chan. But it was too much, although I was there for the whole "New Users can't Triforce" thing (instead of users they said a homophobic slur). In which they coerced some kid into bricking his family's PC, to make an ascii art version of the Triforce from Zelda games. Basically like this:

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(EDIT: Can't format it on Lemmy, despite the preview showing it)

Eventually made it to Reddit, from IRL friends talking about it a lot. At the time, Reddit was like 4chan lite. So the meme cycle started in 4chan, Tumblr or Reddit (mostly 4chan, though). Made it's way to 9gag, where it got more traction, because my girlfriend at the time would send me 9gag meme links, that I had already seen on Reddit. Then it'd move to Instagram, Twitter, sometimes Vine, get beaten over the head on Facebook and a hollowed-out version of it would finally die during late-night comedy skits and monologues.

I was on Reddit for a lot of fucked-up, weird, tragic and funny shit that went down there. Obama's AMA, the whole shit with Ellen Pao and banning r/fatpeoplehate, Woody Harelson's AMA, Wycleaf Jean's AMA (a similar but lesser talked-about AMA disaster), the whole Boston Bombers incident, Pizzagate, Aaron Swartz's passing. When the_donald started "as a joke" and then went full batshit, racist (it was always there festering under, until the egregiousness hit a critical mass). The fappening, all the gore subreddits that got banned, the first version of r/place, live broadcasts during COVID and all the insane amounts of misinformation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the daily megathreads and now the whole fuck spez thing.

Granted forgetting a bunch more, but I was probably there for that. Left there as soon as I couldn't access through Apollo. Although, for years I used Alien Blue, then it started going to shit once Reddit got it and started forcing me to make an avatar and giving me free flair.

Now, I only lurk desktop on Firefox, just a couple communities, but a few of them are starting to pick up on Lemmy, so we'll see how this transition goes.

Damn, I just realized I've seen a lot of internet culture in this time. Like on man regaling on past tales, despite being 33.

I started on Digg in the summer/fall of 2005 right around the launching point of Diggnation; maybe 5-10 episodes in. A friend got me introduced to that. I was there until September of 2010 and then made the move to reddit as a part of the Great Digg Migration, and now find myself here on the fediverse

I've never been a very active contributor, but still felt connected and enjoyed seeing the conversations and links that people were sharing

Made my account in 2011. I'm not deleting, but I've completely stopped using it outside of the occasional google search that points to a Reddit thread. Lemmy is a legitimate and viable alternative to Reddit at this point, and apps like Wefwef are leagues better than the official reddit app

11 years here, going back every now and then only on desktop. Probably dropped my usage by 99%

12+years. Deleted my primary and secondary accounts. Haven't looked back.

13 years on Reddit.

'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.

12 years. Migrated to Reddit when Digg collapsed. Reddit slowly changed over the last 4 years or so, for the worse, even before the recent shenanigans. Glad to be here.

It makes me sad but I was part of the digg fiasco and switched to reddit. I was hours... And hours a day and pretty active.

I haven't been back to reddit since it killed the Sync for Reddit app. 100% Lemmy now.

Had my account for 13 years and was a lurker for a while prior to that.

I thought I might miss Reddit but I really don't. Only issue is trying to find info on random things I can't find anywhere else.

Late to the party on this post, but I was a 14 year user. I was ready for a change as the communities I had subscribed to had stayed pretty static and was grateful for a reason to go and find an alternative. I spend less time doom scrolling as I have not yet installed an app on my phone and I think I may keep it that way.

Thanks to all of you for being here and making this a vibrant place.

I was in the 13 year club, and most of that was using RIF.

15 year account and happy with Lemmy here. Only going back to Reddit once in a while to make sure all my comments remain deleted.

Haven't deleted my account but I've exclusively been here now. It was a few years old. Want to see Lemmy (and other alternative sites) grow as reddit loses.

12 here. Hate it, they had a good thing and they fucked it up for personal gain. I'm never gonna make amends with it.

Deleted mine a month ago.

I don't miss it one bit.

Nearly 14 years, right after digg imploded.

Over 10 years on the account, 1 or 2 extras of lurking before that.

I'm gone for the most part, I don't ever open Reddit just to scroll since I jumped to Lemmy, but I do still add "Reddit" at the end of my Google searches because search engines have become useless and that's still the best way I know to get somewhat unbiased replies on just about any topic.