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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.

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[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

12 years. Shredded it when bacronreader stopped.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

11 years. Gun was already aimed as his foot, but the Spez went and pulled the trigger. Happy to be off reddit now.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

13 years for me and fuck Reddit. I don't see myself going back.

[-] Acid@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

My Reddit account was 2013 so just about 10 years this month when I left.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago
[-] iratesorbet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Not quite 10, but something around that. Popped up on place to contribute pixels to the guillotine and such, but haven't been back.
Use RSS to keep up with nosleep which is the only thing I really enjoyed very much.

Kbin/fedi really wasn't that hard to adjust to, in the end.

[-] nowicanupvotestuff@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

10 year Redditor 13 years if we count lurking.

Just discovered Lemmy and plan to leave reddit at least partially. Reduced my time there already by more than 50% since the API stuff.

[-] exemplarofthekauyon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

11 years here I think.

[-] barttier@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

All in all nearly 10 year though my last account is 7+ years old and this was the time I actually used the site and didn't just lurk. My last account isn't deleted, I just don't use it anymore. Lemmy at first seemed more complicated, but I stayed for the communication culture and the fediverse concept . I'd love to see lemmy grow to a reddit successor but I doubt it will get this big. Then again I wonder if this isn't for the positive. Also it is really refreshing not to be suffocated under rage- and clickbait by some malicious algorithm.

[-] forvirreth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Around 12 years of reddit here. Completely purged my account and then deleted it. Haven't been back since.

Noticed that google which is basically a glorified reddit search engine, has become even worse

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Over 10 here for me. I came with the great Digg migration.

[-] Mossmouse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

11+ years here. Deleted and haven't looked back. I miss my crafting and witchy communities but I don't regret leaving.

[-] dangerouskitchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

11 years haven't been back since boost died

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

I was a bit over 12 if I remember right.

I don't miss it at all.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I was close, 9 years.

[-] lemick24@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

12 years. Wiped my account and deleted it. Even the porn alt

[-] woparopapopa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

12 years and I am not missing it.

[-] emmeram@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

13 years for me. Deleted my account July 1.

[-] Simmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can't be bothered the check but close to 10 years, fuck that site!

[-] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] deltree3030@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

15 years here

[-] mailerdaemon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Not sure how long I was there, but well over ten years. Deleted my account and am done.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I've been on Reddit for 10+, but I haven't actually left yet, this isn't quite a full replacement for me.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My 10 year anniversary was July 12.

[-] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago
[-] mihnt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I made my reddit account when my ex was in the hospital having my daughter. I was on the site for a year or two before that, lurking. All deleted now.

[-] gingernate@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

10 years, haven't used it at all since Sync stopped working. I'm enjoying Lemmy, not very many niche communities but I'm sure that will catch up

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

11+ years, lurked longer than that. It's probably easier to make the change to Lemmy if you've seen the descent.

[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My first account is a little over 12 years old. I catch myself opening up reddit everyone once and a while but have basically completely left at this point. Hadn't been happy with what it's become for years and the most recent shit storm just seemed like a good time to call it quits. 7ish years ago I used to spend a ton of time on the investing subreddits, such as the now notorious and huge wallstreetbets.

The communities I enjoyed have all been overrun and ruined. Reddit became a victim of its own size long ago. Everything is just lowest common dominator crap now. The investing subreddits like wallstreetbets are the most obvious to me. They're just large scale pump and dumps for crypto and meme stocks now. It's ridiculous.

[-] vappster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Just checked, I've registered my account... 9 years ago. Welp lol

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

11 years here. Made the jump shortly after the protests died down and Huffman made it clear that he didn't care who the changes impacted.

[-] imekon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

12 years I think for my imekon account on reddit.

[-] Zrob@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] jerrimu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Me, got on reddit in 2008 or 9.

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