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.

Pons_Aelius,

I'm Spartacus.

IPimpMickeyMouse,

I’m Steve Rogers.

cloudy1999,

I’m Spartacus

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’m Brian and so is my wife!

cloudy1999,

Hi ‘Brian and so is my wife’

pixelmeow,
@pixelmeow@lemmy.world avatar

👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

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,
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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.

JDMaybeMD,

I, too, am Spartacus.

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,
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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.

TheRobotFrog,

This guy

Pistcow,

450k comment karma; I check twice a day and it looks like it’s gone down hill. Shits just crypto spam and UFO bullshit now. What’s the deal with the giant hard on for UFOs? If Trump didn’t blab the second he found out then that should be proof enough for everyone.

Seraph,
Seraph avatar

Stop checking.

Pistcow,

I just want to see it burn. It appears to be.

flipthetube,

13 or 14 years here. I didn’t delete my account but I don’t even want to give them the traffic from going back to see my join date.

andyburke,
andyburke avatar

same

ZoopZeZoop,

Same as well.

fluxion,

And my axe

Speculater,

This

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

Me too!

musictechgeek,

Yep, same here.

LazaroFilm,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

Same. I just refuse to click on Reddit links. Been on it for atrium 12 years.

fmstrat,

Same

guru_hippo,

Same here. Started on Reddit around 2010. Haven’t been back since Apollo shutdown.

grummle,

Ah found my spirit animal.

BackupRainDancer,

12 yr club here 👍

blanketswithsmallpox,
blanketswithsmallpox avatar

And my blanket!

0110010001100010,
@0110010001100010@lemmy.world avatar

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

PenguinJuice,

Me

Seraph,
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    Pregnenolone,

    No shame in the porn. It’s all they’re worth really so you may as well take advantage. They don’t even earn any money from you so you’re probably costing them money overall to be there.

    CynAq,
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    Ditto for 12 yrs. No porn account either. Quit cold turkey.

    Crylos,
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    Me!

    MorbidNoodle,

    I was also part of the great Digg exodus. It’s funny how history repeats.

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