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I was there 11 years and only used the Reddit is Fun app. Kind of surprised how easily I was able to just cut it out of my life.

Well, I don't qualify, I just have just 9+ years...

8 years, fully done with reddit now.

12 years on my account if I remember right. The account still exists, but I'm not logged in anymore - if I need to open reddit as part of a search result, it gets opened in a disposable container tab.

I changed accounts often but I was using the site from around 2010/11

Yep, a few days after the protests petered out. Nuked my account there. Life's been better since.

Yep. Turns out I don’t miss it.

11 years. Just got my notification that my account data is ready for downloading. When I get time, the next step is to replace all my comments and then delete them prior to deleting my account. No plans to return.

Right here!

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

13+ years on Reddit, never very active though... still modding some smaller communities.

My reddit account is a little shy of 10 years, I think I might be at 8 or 9. I haven't really commented on Reddit for a while. I won't delete my account completely, at least not yet. There's some more subs on Reddit that haven't moved to Lemmy/KBin yet, and of course I could be the one to bring them over and create a copycat, but that's a bit of responsibility and work. I am kind of surprised how populated Lemmy is already though.

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13 years... Kind of glad to be done with it but I miss some of the niche communities.

about 12 years I think for me

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I probably started roughly in 2013. I was already pretty tired of the site. It's been a shell of what it was for quite a while. This was the last straw for me to go to the effort of finding something else.

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

I deleted sync off my phone, I still check on desktop but my usage has gone down 90% easily. Same with Twitter.

The alternatives are great, but they are still young and don't have the userbase in the niche subs I frequent.

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

13 years. At least 1 purely as a lurker before that. Reddit has been in my life longer than my dad 🤣

Created my first Reddit acc in 2008

I left digg a long time ago and switched to reddit, account was almost 13 years old. Moving on the Lemmy for similar reason.

I lurked from 2007 to 2009, finally created an account in 2009, and used just that one through maybe the first 5 years or so. In 2014 I started creating alts and deleting old accounts just to be able to cycle through some kind of anonymity to prevent cross referencing comments on one topic with my real identity on another. By 2019 I got pretty aggressive about anonymity and increased the number of alts and throwaways I used (and then used throwaway emails to "verify" with reddit, because I stopped trusting them with the backend data that could be used to correlate alts).

I deleted most of my alts, but kept two, for specific niche interests: the one I used to comment on the nuts and bolts of the legal profession, mostly in private subreddits that weren't crawled by search engines (or AI training), and one that participates in my city's subreddit about local issues.

At this point, I think the technology discussions on lemmy/kbin are already at or above the quality of reddit. There's still a ways to go with other general topics of discussion, but I think we'll get there on the big ones. I don't know if the niche topics will really take off, so for now I keep my reddit accounts that correspond to those.

Can't quite recall how long I was on Reddit for, but I joined very early on. Maybe 14 or 15 years old, my account was? Reddit had been getting rubbish for years, possibly the last 6 or 7. I needed this push, and something about Lemmy reminds me of old Reddit. How it was in the early days. Yes, Lemmy does have some work to do, but I don't think it needs to be as popular as Reddit. Let people use other sites too. Way too much in-fighting and faux-drama on Reddit. Hopefully, Reddit traffic will be split between three or four sites. This may stop many of the stupid clashes.

I was a reddit user for around 7 years, deleted my account once 1 year ago (due to becoming privacy conscious) and tried to minimize my use of it, with occasional relapses.

I was mostly using reddit via libreddit frontend as I would mostly lurk and rarely comment, and because of the loading speed of the website (no need to load and run tons of javascript code every time), but since the API changes I can probably only look at 1 subreddit and around 3 posts before reaching the rate limit. Needless to say, this killed my main way to interact with the platform and seeing that lemmy got a lot more people now, I made an account here yesterday.

12-year club here. I still visit one sub-reddit because it doesn't exist here, but I don't interact. That's about it.

12 years.. I closed my account June 1st haven't even opened the site

Hola! 1 10 year account, 3 accounts at 3+ years.

9 years counts right? I havent left-left but I spend most of my time here now.

Yo

9y7m with 200k+ karma. I had used Reddit to look at porn for few years before that but finally made an account to ask some tech support question...

I got perma banned not quite a month ago, it was a pretty shitting thing I did so probably deserved it. Definitely helped me in jumping ship.

I was a couple months away from my 10th cake day, but I'd been lurking for a few years before actually registering.

I joined reddit in 2009 after lurking for a year. Loved it for most of the time. Account now deleted :(

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13+ here

Me.

I haven't officially "quit" Reddit but I am trying to migrate over here. I was with Reddit for 12 years. To be honest the API changes alone would not have made me leave. What drove me away was the fact that so many users were protesting the changes and the admins response was "well we don't need you anyway." I don't want to be part of a site that doesn't care what its users want.

Hopefully enough people who come over to lemmy donate to keep things running with the influx of new users.

Speaking of, is there any "preference" to the three ways of donating on the site? Do any of them have lower fees or anything?

15 years for me. I'm not the type to go scorched earth, so I'll still pop in briefly from time to time from a Google search or to look for something specific, but I don't use Reddit for near-constant idle browsing anymore, like I used to. Now I have Lemmy for that, although it would probably be healthier to just cut out social media altogether (or severely reduce it).