13 years.

We built that place with OUR content. And now they want us to pay for the privilege of being there or be buried in ads? The nerve.

18 years here. 'do not cite the deep magic to me...'

12 years. Was thinking about leaving when they announce the api death blow. Actually decided to leave when i saw how reddit admins blatently lied about the apollo dev situation.

Awards? Never saw those on my 2015 version of baconreader app. Couldn't care less.

Redditor since 2008. Only time I end up there now is if a search result points me to an old post.

7 years, 1st lemmy post. Hi everybody!

10+ man it hurt to leave but once Rif was gone i couldn't deal with using that atrocious app.

Lemmy isn't there yet, but out of stubbornness I'll persevere and it will be the replacement we all want.

Absolutely and whole heartedly fuck Spez..... jumped up prick.

I left Digg in the great migration. Now moved to Lemmy due to the SpezZaster.

13+ years, haven't been back since RIF got closed.

Had just under 10 years on my current account and I used the official Reddit app the whole time...

But I just don’t support/respect/enjoy it over there anymore.

11 years. And, honestly I'm kinda grateful. It was time, regardless of the drama, and an unhealthy amount of my screen-existence was being eaten up by it. There seemed to be a slow, insidious change that I was probably sheltered from by keeping to old-reddit, but even then, the whole spez-API-drama wasn't so much of a shock, but more the final nail in the coffin that reddit is, with no doubt, now a full on corporate for-profit website just like any of the other social media giants, and will continue to act more and more like them. I'll admit I didn't delete my account, just the app, and I still check back in every few days to peek in to a few more niche subreddits that there just isn't any replacement for elsewhere (yet), but spending my time elsewhere has been refreshing.

11 year reddit account holder. Lemmy is so much better. Yeah, there isn't a post for every passing thought, but people are generally more kind and that matters to me.

👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

I started using reddit around the whole Digg debacle. What's that been? 13 years? Something like that. I preferred Sync and since that's gone, I didn't feel like being strong armed into using their dog shit app. So... Here I am.

I was heading towards my 12 cake day, I think a lot of us who have moved to lemmy remember leaving digg so it might it easier for us.

I was planning on leaving soon, but Reddit did it for me today. Permanently suspended my 15+ year old account over a comment where I was trying to help people not spam an almost dead sub with irrelevant content. I suppose it was time.

17 year user. (I originally joined when Aaron Swartz became a co-founder, because I figured his idealism would keep reddit from becoming the kind of place it is now.)

10 years last July almost 400k karma. I'd like to say I left for all sorts of noble reasons to do with awards or API, but mostly I just left because Lemmy is a nicer space to hang out in and reminds me of my early days on the internet with BBSs and the like. On Reddit as an older woman we are constantly made aware it's not a space where we are really wanted, though there are a lot more of us on there in our own little niches than I think a lot of younger male users realise. So I'm here hoping Lemmy will continue to feel more open to everyone, and if it doesn't hell I'll start a server for us old farts.

Over a dozen years on Reddit. Earlier this year, when looking through & deleting my old posts, I saw one saying how if Reddit ever did anything crazy to it's users, I'd leave, just as quickly as I'd done with Digg, G+, FB. So I did without even reading any further. Present self could not just ignore a message from Past self.

I left as soon as RIF went offline for my account. Mid-tier user with reasonable posts volume. Been on reddit since the big Digg migration. Now I'm here.

I miss a few things about it... the constantly refreshing front page, the indepth sub-reddits on smaller topics, and my post history. But I haven't gone back. Nor am I likely to unless management changes or they change their tone, neither of which is likely. Oh well, out with the old, in with the new.

I had to check how old my account is, but 10 years confirmed. I'll check the local subreddit for my hometown occasionally just because there isn't a community for it here, but otherwise I've completely left the site.

I honestly don't miss Reddit as much as I'd thought. The communities here provide about as much content (higher quality even, imo) as I'd like, but I also feel like I've gotten so much more free time from sitting on my phone and scrolling endlessly. I'd like to see some of the apps catch up, but otherwise this is the alternative that fits my needs best now, and even if lemmy/kbin fails, I don't see myself returning to Reddit.

15 year ex redditor. The place is a dumpster fire 🔥 so nice to be here.

Ehh, Google still sucks these days without adding 'reddit' to the search query. Everything online is listacles these days.

I'm an almost 17 year Redditor, same username as here. I was in so early that I actually have emails that I sent to Alexis Ohannion and Steven Huffman asking questions about how their Postgres setup worked -- and they both replied! But I've moved on. I haven't used Reddit since June 30, 2023, the day Apollo died.

I nuked my history but the account is still active. I'll probably delete it soon. May 2012 inception date. I'm surprised how easy it has been to stop using it after all this time. Admittedly, I haven't used Lemmy nearly as much as I would reddit, but that is a good thing for me.

Was closing in on 14 years in Sept. nuked my account. F em. Hell I even paid for Premium despite using Apollo because I wanted to pay my share. How they treated users and admins let alone app developers was beyond the pale, I couldn't support it by staying.

Ten years here. Nice to have you as company.

Stopped using reddit on mobile (Apollo orphan), now only use Memmy.

At desktop, a put Lemmy as favourite page besides the Reddit icon, so my muscle memory adapt without problem. I review the All-frontpage (top-6h) here and just specific subs there. I hope these 3-4 subs start growing here, so I stop going to reddit. It will happen, eventually.

12 yr club here 👍

16 years? I stopped participating on large subreddits about a decade or so ago when the highest upvoted comment I made received near 1000 upvotes. It was the most non-useful non-helpful throwaway comment ever. I realized at that point how stupid reddit was and only participated in small subreddits for a short time but gave up commenting all together as it was worthless. Left when RIF stopped working.

11 years here. I was very aware the quality of content there had gone down the drain before the API stuff, so when that happened and Lemmy presented itself as a good alternative I left for good!

Fuck, I am getting older.

I created my account during high school, now I am 25.

To be honest, I am grateful for the journey. I found Reddit when I needed it, I was spending too much time on 9gag and wanted to find something more productive to waste my time on. Reddit was, and still is, more than that.

TwoXChromosomes and gonewildstories are two subs that literally redefined my person.

I haven't deleted my account, nor do I plan to. But, I haven't used Reddit since my birthday on June 12th. I have been into the idea of the fediverse long before I first read about it, and I am here for the long run.

I migrated from Digg to Reddit in Dec 2009. I've gone through several accounts since then. I've deleted the most recent accounts and have tried to delete the older ones - although Reddit won't let me delete one account for some reason (delete keeps failing). I joined the Aussie Zone Lemmy instance and love it here. One thing I think redditfugees need to remember is that Lemmy instances are not ad supported, so WE NEED TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT OUR HOME INSTANCES!

represent. I did not only leave, I took my 1M+ community with me

I originally joined Reddit in 2006, and became active full time after the Digg migration. My account was legally able to drive. I began using RIF somewhere during that time period, not sure exactly when, but probably over a decade ago at least.

It had been eons since I enjoyed interacting on Reddit as much as I am currently enjoying interacting with all of you on Lemmy. This has been a breath of fresh air, and I won't ever look back given the wholly unethical behavior of Steve Huffman as well as the decimation of third party applications due to the API changes. I joined Reddit when it was in its infancy, and I am happy to be here during the opening era of Lemmy.

I want to see this project become something great, and I intend to do my best to be an active member of this community so that it can thrive. I was never one for posting content on Reddit for some reason, but that is something I would like to change after migrating over here. I think there is useful insight I can provide to niche communities that relate to my work and personal interests, and I will try to do a better job of submitting content to further the goals of those communities when I have the time.

Edit - Since I see some people adding this
Mobile - Connect
Desktop - Alexandrite

Joined Reddit 2009. Only go to Reddit now from clicking search results.

15+ years

I think 7 years? I browsed reddit for a while before that reading up on my interests but eventually I created an account. Spent a LOT of time on subs for people who were abused as children. Therapy was used against me as part of the abuse. I am triggered by therapists now -.-" so these online self help spaces were a major part of my journey to understand and start recovery. It became a cornerstone to help me become a person.

Eventually several of these subs had a lot of internal drama. Back then I felt fealty to these communities and tried super hard to fix it. No avail. In a way I did my reorienting and mourning my lost community back then. I cut back on reddit use like 80% already going from many hours a day to maybe a few times a week? I'd still engage if something caught my attention. Especially in the refugee subs about childhood abuse that sprung up.

The recent protests brought that down to "only if I need some specific information". Maybe twice a month? I don't engage at all anymore. I also didn't feel like talking to a brick wall again to attempt to fix an online place. The rhethoric and even some methods between spez and some mods I tangled with is similar enough. I just left this time around. Let my actions speak. I can't bring my self to delete my comments tho.

I still miss a place where people intuitively get what I've been through because they have similar stories. And I'd like to pass it forward some more. I haven't found anything similar on the fediverse yet. But I'm in a place where I don't need it much anymore. It's still just sad that a handful of humans can destroy communities like this. It had such a big impact on my life.

Thanks for reading my sad ramblings!

11 year here, haven't been on since RIF closed shop.

I'm one, I joined in 2012 during a difficult recovery from cancer surgery.

A shitpost on r/slaythespire sent me to r/egg_irl and that tipped the first domino in my gender transition.

r/noncredibledefense was a huge community of other weirdos alarmingly like me, never felt more at home in an online community.

Huge amounts of time on r/nba and r/soccer...

Losing RiF was gonna be the end anyway, but as soon as the threat to install scab moderators came through I knew I was never going back.

Same username on reddit. Just over 10 years myself on that account plus another 2 or 3 with a prior account. Really enjoying Lemmy and like everyone has said already, it honestly does feel like reddit from 10 years ago. I had stopped using reddit much at all but I’m on Lemmy nearly every day like I used to be with reddit years ago.

Other question: how active were you? I used to write about 30 comments A DAY. I easily see that Lemmy is wayy more active than Reddit and this makes using Lemmy way more fun even when the content isn't here yet.

I haven't "left" completely; there are niche communities there that I will continue to follow for awhile, until I find that content elsewhere.

But I guarantee that those communities aren't making any money for reddit.

I did cancel my Premium subscription.

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