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.

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

13 years, bye. Fuck spez

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.

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!

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.

15 years. I haven't deleted my account yet but I haven't logged in since API day. I have a redirect in place to go through a libreddit proxy in case I end up on the site through a web search or something.

I am pretty commited to never contribute to the site again and I am planning to delete my account at some point. I want to make sure that I can reliably delete my full comment history before I do that and I haven't bothered researching that yet. I am hoping that there will be a way to do it through a GDPR or CCPA request at some point rather than me having to do the work. (yeah I know there are tools but it's still an effort)

Reddit had been my greatest online addiction by far. It's kinda nice that they made it so easy to kick it. A bit like finding an unexpected out from a bad relationship. Good luck with the rest of your life Reddit!

I haven't deleted my account just yet but I joined reddit 12 years ago this month, once RIF went under om the 1st I stopped visiting the site altogether. I have friends that still regularly use the site, mainly through old.reddit whom I've told about Lemmy but just aren't quite ready to switch over and that's their choice, due to the amount of content still on the site I can't necessarily blame them, but I just can't in good conscience give reddit the traffic now that they've gone full twitter in their corporate decision making.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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

12 yr club here 👍

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 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

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.

I migrated there after digg 4.0. I still have a reddit account but all of my old comments have been changed to direct people to Lemmy. As far as my influence? Probably not much. While I had several hundred thousand post karma, that was all news related so I was not exactly a content creator. I did comment a decent amount though.

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.

15+ years

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 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.

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

Thirteenish years on Reddit. Won’t go back.

Did place to put fuck spez and join Lemmy…. Made stickers after that can hopefully get people to look into Lemmy.

We’ll see what happens.

15 years with the account and lurked since 2005, basically from the beginning. Sad to see it turned into a complete shitshow. But the quality of the content, especially in the bigger subreddits has been declining long before that. It started going downhill with the popularity around 2015-2017 with the influx of new users. The discourse got a lot worse and briganded(?) and I lost the charm that it had in the early days. I am never using the site ever again out of principle. I got over Usenet and IRC, Reddit will also be eventually replaced.

I had used Reddit for probably 11-12+ years. Which is why the slow death of the site was so sad. It was one of my favorite places on the net

12 years this month, now gone for good.

It’s freeing in a way, reddit had become so user-hostile, and I only used it because of the beautiful third party apps out there. It’s astonishing just how slow, ugly, inconvenient, and buggy they have been making the UI over time.

10 years next February.

I’m not completely out but I haven’t posted or commented since July 1st

~18k Post Karma ~232k Comment Karma

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

16 years for me. I joined during the Dig revolt in 2007.

11+ years here, all on mobile (Reddit Pics was my first app.)

Apollo WAS Reddit for me. I loathe the Reddit app and refuse to use it. Would happily have paid a monthly fee or whatever. I spent unhealthy amounts of time on Reddit.

Not been back since Apollo shut down. This is my home now.

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.