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.

darreninthenet,

12 years, left when Apollo stopped working and went to Lemmy.world… left to another instance today when they started blocking certain communities

voxl,

raises hand

Thea_C,

12 years for me. Havent gotten back on since finding out about Lemmy. Reddit fonally becoming fully enshittified lead me to the fediverse, which actually gives me HOPE. I’m very happy to be here. I’m even happy to see the right wingers here, because if they de-federate from traditional social media they’ll ALSO BE BETTER OFF and hopefully stop being activley manipulated for 20 minutes.

nephs,

12 years here. Few thousand karma. Fuck the corporate shit.

Tamoato,

About a decade or so on Reddit. Most of it through Relay when I was an android user or Apollo for the last few years.

Deleted my account. Don’t really think about Reddit anymore unless it comes up on a news site or here.

Shelbyeileen,
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I started my first account in 2012 because my ex husband was into it. I ask don’t understand “why does the narwhal bacon” but I slowly figured out reddit and recommended it to all of my friends. Sad to see it go; but I’m glad… except for a few small communities (Neopets, Microgrowery, AIDKE, shrimptanks, succshaming, etc.) it was turning into a cesspool of ads and manipulated visibility.

theodewere, (edited )
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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..

HerbSolo,

Just checked: oldest account i still have is 16 years old.

Winters44,

12 years here. Mostly as a lucker though. Will try to be more active on Lemmy for sure. Really sad to see what reddit has become.

Used RIF pretty much all the time, it was my go-to app.

cfenollosa,

Since the Digg migration, when was that, 2010?

Since Reddit’s APIcalypse the content of that site has gone to the drain. It is very clear that power users are no longer posting quality content. I am much more amused by Lemmy than Reddit nowadays, though it’s true that it has that new car smell and the communities will keep growing and reforming from the Reddit ashes.

I don’t think Reddit will disappear, but it’s not the same site it was two months ago, that’s a fact.

ancientwoodsy,

I haven’t deleted my account yet but I rarely use it. I’m still trying to figure out lemmy but it seems lacking in content.

whereisk,

It took 18 years for Reddit to become what it is…

Maybe 10 or more to break out of nerd circles.

Lemmy’s relative growth is quite impressive, but it will take more than a few months to become a viable alternative.

Having said that, contributing content is the best way to work towards that.

Kalothar,

11+ years with an account and 15 or so as a lurker checking in

bro_munkey,

11-12 years. Can’t exactly remember. But I left the moment my Sync for Reddit stopped working.

Zuberi,

This :)

BillyTheSkidMark,

Similar, i went to go check reddit to see what my years were, but it’s down at the moment… which is some schadenfreude

noodlejetski,

almost 11 years and over half a million karma.

_bug0ut,

I think i have the 13-year badge. I visit maybe a few times a week when there’s nothing left to doomscroll on Lemmy. I was never really a huge contributor, in posts or comments, but now I’m purely a lurker and I spend maybe 15 or 30 minutes in a single sitting on the site instead of a few hours cumulatively throughout a given day.

With that said, the overall quality of content and discussion had been going downhill for years at this point, I just didn’t have anywhere else to go that provided the same dopamine hit. Lemmy doesn’t do it quite as well, but once the Reddit API controversy kicked up and a ton of people started actually using Lemmy, that helped give me a good reason to spend time with it since there was activity. I’m honestly not sure if Lemmy is the future but I’m willing to stay if it’s a road to the future… and I’m willing to try out new platforms and communities before I find something that I feel fits me as well as Reddit did for so long.

I kind of miss 2010-2013ish era Reddit (minus the bacon/narwahls stuff which kind of felt forced to me), but hoping something like that comes along would probably be along the same lines as wishing I could get the same near magical feel and interaction out of IRC as I did in the mid to late 90s/early 2000s. These are one-and-done things. The next thing that elicits that kind of homey feeling will probably be something entirely new and not a clone of the OG thing.

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