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.
same
Same as well.
And my axe
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.
Been on Reddit for about 8 years, but I’ve seen enough. Once a company starts treating you like trash, it’s time to go. These things have happened with other platforms too, and I’ve always found a better alternative somewhere.
Same here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.
Does this feel like Reddit did then? Does to me.
Same boat. I remember being a big fan of Digg (and Kevin Rose), and looking down upon “new” copycat… Reddit. Then they completely changed (removed voting?) almost overnight, and so I gave Reddit a chance. Loved it (and later Sync) and used almost daily! Until… well, fuck Steve Huffman, we all know what happened. Hello Lemmy.
I have not deleted account or comments yet, but logged out everywhere, try to never visit, and will never use the (ad-infested) app. Lemmy community (and Liftoff) has been great, just needs to keep growing with good people.
Digg migrant here as well. I’m getting cozy over here now, not looking back.
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.
Once had a front page rage comic… man I was flying high that day!
11-12 years. Can’t exactly remember. But I left the moment my Sync for Reddit stopped working.
Similar, i went to go check reddit to see what my years were, but it’s down at the moment… which is some schadenfreude
This :)
12 years here. Mostly as a lucker though. Will try to be more active on Lemmy for sure. Really sad to see what reddit has become.
Used RIF pretty much all the time, it was my go-to app.
I haven’t deleted my account yet but I rarely use it. I’m still trying to figure out lemmy but it seems lacking in content.
It took 18 years for Reddit to become what it is…
Maybe 10 or more to break out of nerd circles.
Lemmy’s relative growth is quite impressive, but it will take more than a few months to become a viable alternative.
Having said that, contributing content is the best way to work towards that.
Since the Digg migration, when was that, 2010?
Since Reddit’s APIcalypse the content of that site has gone to the drain. It is very clear that power users are no longer posting quality content. I am much more amused by Lemmy than Reddit nowadays, though it’s true that it has that new car smell and the communities will keep growing and reforming from the Reddit ashes.
I don’t think Reddit will disappear, but it’s not the same site it was two months ago, that’s a fact.
I was 2006 adopter when Paul Graham dropped a link to it on his website. I was there before the original programming subdomain Reddit and even before they supported picture thumbnails. I’ve seen its wild mutations over the years. Bacon, narwhal, Mr Splashypants, Colbert name dropping, the original video IAMAs, the jailbait fiasco, spacedicks, random celebrity users, the redesign from hell, etc etc.
I left.
It was a good site for a long time but after being on Lemmy for a while I can see a clear difference in experience and now I realize Reddit has been bad for a while. Terrible discourse, lowest common denominator posts, and falling into the trap of continuous engagement just to get the next hit of dopamine. Honestly, spez ruining the site has been good for me personally.
I’m proud of our rejection of a commercial online experience. This is the thoughtful community I want to be a part of. This feels like the Internet of the late 90s in terms of authenticity. With its revival with the Fediverse I’m hopeful that these types of communities will forever be part of our digital experience.
12 years, fuck em. this is my go-to scroll for when I’m bored now. The communities will grow in time.
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.
what was reddit, can someone describe it… was that like napster or something… but yeah, i had a 10 year account or something… now they couldn’t pay me to post to their site…
Sadly I still have to visit reddit for various things. Mostly just for niche questions I have for Google that are best answered on Reddit. Which is a lot.
11 years. Lemmy is the warm blanket, fresh out of the dryer I didn’t know I wanted until now. :-)
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.
