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.
Haven’t deleted my account but I’ve exclusively been here now. It was a few years old. Want to see Lemmy (and other alternative sites) grow as reddit loses.
My longest running account will be 10 years old in December.
I was at about 12 when I left
Hit my 10 years mark in June. Left at the end of that month when Bacon Reader app could no longer function. Not looking back. I was an active browser, commenter, and occasional poster. Never molded tho.
15 years and almost went to a stop going there (I setup a RSS feed for 3 subs, but I actually manually check them twice a week to make sure I’m not missing on important news)
The fediverse as a whole is getting more and more interesting this year. Sure, it’s still lacking in amount of content, but it brings me “good enough” content to avoid feeling like I’m missing something.
12 years here. The day apollo died is the day I stopped logging into reddit.
And it is really hard. That was my default go to free time app. I spent AT LEAST 4 hours A DAY on reddit for most of those 12 years.
Its hard. But on the other hand that site disgusses me now.
It’s gotta be 13-15 yrs for me. I haven’t deleted my account because I just stopped going over there. They had a good run. Better than digg haha.
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I’d used Reddit in some fashion since about 2012. Jumped ship once I realized Lemmy was gaining steam and Spez wasn’t going to budge. I’m sad, no doubt, but I think it’s because Reddit was easy. Been lurking on Lemmy more lately just from lack of time, but I’m glad to see that things are still rolling along! I think the communities here are full of folks trying to make something amazing. Happy to contribute!
Edit: Punctuation.
11 years+ here. Left almost a month ago.
9+ years (nearly 10) checking in. No point using the site without Apollo
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Props to y’all, I have no clue when I started. I had one account, then I lost it because I forgot about it and made another one year or two later. And then another one cuz I wanted it to be linked to my user name in one of my games.
All I remember was that I quit that game after 5+ years of playing, and I had account 1-2 years prior. And that quitting date was somewhere in 2019, so that’s like 2014ish or so, I guess I might have been a Redditor for almost 10+/- years.
But yeah, since the blackout. I’ve been browsing Lemmy and Mastodon whenever Lemmy goes down. No regret, I’ve been enjoying the new experience and it got me to browse a bit less than usual due to less content overall but still it’s positive.
Rooting hard for fediverse to go off!
My account is 13, but lurked a bit before that. Never installed the official app. Used RES for desktop, and Boost for mobile.
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