Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?

I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.

Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

Edit: I didn’t expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you… I can’t reply to everyone. I’m an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I’m really sad too, but I’m finding that lemmy has most of the content I’m looking for, just needs more comments.

The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.

MehBlah,

Yeah I hauled ass this year. Logged out and will not go back. It went from decent for years to cumbersome garbage real quick.

Shadowq8,

14 year account

Blaze,

Welcome here!

masterofn001, (edited )

14 years with an account. A year or so of lurking before that.

Sites come and go.

I like telling stories of the olden days of the internet. Like being user on mp3.com and having chats with people like Darude (before sandstorm) and Dido (before Eminem). It was an amazing place. Now it isn’t.

Reddit will follow.

As they all do

Edit: I also had the comment of the day on Reddit once.

It had 500 upvotes.

I was also a beta tester for duckduckgo. Not the app, the site/engine. When everyone else was putting him down, I believed.

That’s how long I was on there.

poxonus,

Jolly Rancher

FourPacketsOfPeanuts,

Gargh!

blargh,

Swamps of Dagobah

Wollff,

My greatest internet achievement: I came up with the name for that story!

Okay, not quite, I came up with calling it “The Dagobah Story”, but close enough! :D

STOMPYI,

Once had a front page rage comic… man I was flying high that day!

RickRussell_CA,
@RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I was never a fan of Scrubs, but several years into the show I heard Lazlo Bane’s “Superman” in the show titles and I was like… huh, they got that from MP3.com? Turns out Zach Braff was friends with the band members.

I still have lots of MP3.com stuff in my music archive, including folks who never made the transition to Youtube and pretty much don’t exist on the Internet at all anymore.

Makeshift,

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.

SreudianFlip,

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.

roofuskit,

12 years, deleted my account and overwrote all posts and comments I could before I did so.

Atelopus-zeteki,
@Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run avatar

same.

Jhogenbaum,

Just over a decade on reddit. Still miss how it was. Hopeful for lemmy and fediverse future

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@lemmy.world avatar

My Cake day is April 17, 2013.

I was maybe the most active for about the last ½-1 year before this August or something. Maybe 75-90% of my activity was lurking, viewing people’s discussions.

I didn’t notice negative events regarding Reddit before the API war in the summer. The subreddits I were at were nice places. I guess different communities/subreddits have conversations depending on the topic and how strick or active or casual or entertainment-only the community is about…so it’s kinda obvious to me that some places have more decent talk and some of them get karma more easier with smaller effort and stuff…

I’m sad about the API stuff. I lost contact to Relay before they talked about the need of subscription, so they can handle the costs. I’m fine with that, on Relay’s side - not angry about that. But my activity in Reddit took a plunge after I deleted Relay from my Android. Nowadays I go to Reddit only to read if there’s info I need (problems with software etc) not found as easily some place else, but I don’t create new stuff anymore.

Blamemeta,

Same here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.

Ohthereyouare,

Does this feel like Reddit did then? Does to me.

TheHighRoad,
@TheHighRoad@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll piggyback and say that it feels similar. The biggest difference is not having huge default subs shaping the experience. Lemmy also feels more sparse in the comments, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed. Feels like early Reddit did. Lower quantity, higher quality.

TheHighRoad,
@TheHighRoad@lemmy.world avatar

Another thing is I feel like I’m trying harder to contribute positively; I want Lemmy to succeed so that (hopefully) we can avoid the enshitification that inevitably plagues the commercialized platforms.

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

Totally agree. I’ve only posted a pun a handful of times!

Ohthereyouare,

I think this is a good point. When I got here, before I started shaping my feed, it was basically rule196, furry porn, tankies and memes.

Actually… A lot like Reddit in the Digg days, minus the tankies.

Less “gems” and rage comics and “Le”, but the same idea, modernized for 2023.

It was those of us (probably in this Lemmy thread, ironically, 15 years-ish later) who outlasted the Le gems of Reddit, and turned it into the modern place.

Then, spez. Fuck spez

Blamemeta,

Kinda? I was a lot younger then, and this feels way more left wing politically now. Maybe I just got more conservative as I aged, or the internet got more left wing. Or maybe a little of both.

Ohthereyouare,

Or, maybe, the world is more liberal than you’ve been led to believe as your circle of influence grew smaller as you got older.

TheBenCommandments,
@TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub avatar

Reality has a liberal bias

TrickDacy,

Stopping in to drop a semi-ironic “this^”

MiddleKnight,

10 years ago people would write “this^” without a trace of irony on Reddit. So you are kinda ruining the experience by being semi-ironic.

TrickDacy,

Only semi-ruining tho. Life is about balance ;)

FreeloadingSponger,

There’s similarities, but it’s a little more empty, and it’s a little too reposty from other sites still. reddit then felt a bit more like the place, this isn’t that yet.

Emptiness,

Digg migrant here as well. I’m getting cozy over here now, not looking back.

vanontom,

Same boat. I remember being a big fan of Digg (and Kevin Rose), and looking down upon “new” copycat… Reddit. Then they completely changed (removed voting?) almost overnight, and so I gave Reddit a chance. Loved it (and later Sync) and used almost daily! Until… well, fuck Steve Huffman, we all know what happened. Hello Lemmy.

I have not deleted account or comments yet, but logged out everywhere, try to never visit, and will never use the (ad-infested) app. Lemmy community (and Liftoff) has been great, just needs to keep growing with good people.

REdOG,
@REdOG@lemmy.world avatar

16

Numpty,

13 years on Reddit. I was part of the Great Digg Exodus… now the Great Reddit Exodus.

I deleted all my comments on Reddit, all of my posts, and then toasted my user account just before the API deadline. Not looking back.

Cabrill,

Is there a tool for deleting everything prior the account itself?

Sparlock,

Power delete suite

Numpty,

I used a Tampermonkey script called Reddit History Sanitiizer: greasyfork.org/en/scripts/…/code

You can modify it to do what you want… Power Delete Suite works too. There’s a lot more out there, especially now.

PsychedSy,

That’d put me at 15+ years prolly. I remember how salty people were about the digg refugees.

DadVolante,

13 years, but I didn’t come from Digg. My pal in college showed it to me.

I noticed one day that the entire front page was imgur links. It was a steady decline.

It was still okay when I nuked my account, but I wanted to spend less time on social media, anyway.

I like Lemmy well enough, but I don’t spend as much time on it as I did reddit/Facebook.

Dropped both. Pop in to the fediverse a couple times a day on my phone and pop out.

Learning Linux. Not missing a lot of my old spots like I thought I would.

ZiemekZ,

I deleted all my comments on Reddit, all of my posts, and then toasted my user account

Are you sure about that? There were some reported cases of Reddit bringing back the content. They only listen to GDPR complaints (or that one Californian equivalent).

Numpty,

Son-of-a-bitch. I just searched with Google… and almost ALL my old comments are back. The user attribution is [deleted], but almost all the content of 13 or 14 years of comments has been restored. In a few cases, a top-level comment has not been restored, but everywhere in sub-comment conversations, I see my old content… content I know I explicitly deleted.

So, even though I explicitly deleted my contributions, they ignored and restored it. What an asshole move by the Reddit admins. And of course, now that my account has been deleted there’s no way to follow up and re-remove all my contributions.

I wonder. Considering that the vast majority of my comments on Reddit were done while I lived in Europe if I can use GPRD and insist they remove it all.

jcb2016_,

@Numpty @ZiemekZ F u/spez 🤬

digdilem,

I deleted my 11yr high karma account on 1st July. I had another before that which was a couple of years or so old.

I did it in protest but as an interesting side effect, my mental health has improved slightly. Guess actively engaging with toxicity does have an effect.

m4xie,

11 years. Very active commenter.

I’ve got high hopes for this place and the fedi-verse in general! I think the decentralized nature has so much potential.

Juu_lion,

Sadly I still have to visit reddit for various things. Mostly just for niche questions I have for Google that are best answered on Reddit. Which is a lot.

CooperHawkes,

Bacon it was my jam. Spent 11 years there. Only slightly miss it to be honest.

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