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.
13 or 14 years here. I didn’t delete my account but I don’t even want to give them the traffic from going back to see my join date.
I would imagine the 10+ demographic has the highest rates of attrition. Those people will have witnessed most of the transition from niche to lowest common denominator. Everyone knows the adage that 100k is the subreddit limit after which the community breaks down. It would happen here too. The discourse here is uncannily like the 2009 Reddit I remember. People are polite and well informed. I hope the localised and open nature of the service keeps it that way.
Prediction: Reddit will become a cesspit of advertising and data harvesting, a la Facebook. It’s most of the way there already.
6 year.
Same here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.
16yrs My account was older than my kid. It feels like some weird breakup. At times I miss it but I feel better for moving on. Lemmy feels like early reddit did so I’m hopeful that the community will continue to grow.
Would have been 12 years this month. I left when they pulled that crap with Christian (Apollo), he’s a friend IRL and I support him 100%.
10+ years, can’t stand browsing it without my dark minimalist RIF. RIP
Just about 10 years on Reddit. My visits to Reddit dropped by 99.9%; still do a few check-ins with support communities I’ve used. Here on Lemmy, actively contributing and minor role as mod in a couple of communities. Building a new home in the stars.
12 years, fuck em. this is my go-to scroll for when I’m bored now. The communities will grow in time.
11 years. Lemmy is the warm blanket, fresh out of the dryer I didn’t know I wanted until now. :-)
13 years, and honestly I thank them for the kick in the ass I needed to get off that site.
I overwrote my posts and deleted my account. I wish them luck, but Reddit has evolved into something I no longer want to be a part of.
For about 6 years but I shall share a story cause why not. I don’t remember the exact details of how it unraveled.
So for a lot of time I had an unverified account, one that wasn’t linked to any email. I just browsed as usual. Then one day my account got ‘locked’ and I had to verify it through a mail to unlock it. Now, I think I went ahead and tried linking it to my mail (or it might even be that I tried linking it from the very beginning but never got a confirmation mail), but I wouldn’t get any mail. I tried regaining access for a while but I soon made a second account to be able to interact with the content. Now I believe some time had passed and I remembered about my first account, got determined to unlock it. I even contacted support about it. It was at that time that I noticed what went wrong. I had a typo in the mail I had provided, just one letter. That is why I never got any mail, but there still was a problem: there was no option to edit and correct the mail I had given them. I was devastated, there was no way to get that confirmation mail at this point… unless? What if I created a new email account, one with the typo, so I could receive that mail? I did just that. Created a new google mail account for the sole purpose of getting that mail. I did it, got the mail, unblocked my account, changed the linked mail and deleted the typo-mail account.
I finally got my original account back. I continued however to use the second one, it was more up to date with my interests at the time, but I was happy I managed to solve the issue - no thanks to support.
Thanks for reading my story, have a nice day :)
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.
14 years with an account. A year or so of lurking before that.
Sites come and go.
I like telling stories of the olden days of the internet. Like being user #132 on mp3.com and having chats with people like Darude (before sandstorm) and Dido (before Eminem). It was an amazing place. Now it isn’t.
Reddit will follow.
As they all do
Edit: I also had the comment of the day on Reddit once.
It had 500 upvotes.
I was also a beta tester for duckduckgo. Not the app, the site/engine. When everyone else was putting him down, I believed.
That’s how long I was on there.
7 years, 1st lemmy post. Hi everybody!
