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 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.

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.

10-11 years now

How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

I just use both now, honestly. I don't really use the big subreddits because the users and quality of conversation feel like they're actively making me dumber... but there are smaller niche communities that don't really have a viable non-reddit alternative yet, and I'm not willing to let one greedy man force me to give up on a part of my life that I really enjoy.

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.

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 don't know how long I was on Reddit but it was for quite a while before the Digg exodus happened, so it might be 17 years? I had settled on RIF as my front end and was quite upset at the loss of the third party clients. It was apparent that Reddit was decaying for years, but being on the third party apps and knowing how to curate your subreddits helped a lot. I've been back over there a few times on old.* but it's not the same. Us old-timers are not the audience they want these days and frankly, I don't want to be the audience they want so good riddance.

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

This guy

11.5 years. RIF was my phone app.

Not totally sure off the top of my head but I guess I was on Reddit for about 13 years, give or take. I moderated some communities for many years as well.

I'm done now.

I have not found replacements for most of my Reddit communities — not the ones I actually cared about. It's a crying shame that online communities keep getting fractured by shitty corporate behavior (see Twitter). That is the main reason I will not get involved with another proprietary platform. Why should I invest my time and effort into building a community that will eventually be ripped to shreds by profiteers?

I don't know if Lemmy is "the one" but I feel like the principles of the fediverse have legs. The internet is going to have some growing pains in the coming years, and it's going to take a long time for anything like Lemmy to reach critical mass. I mean, even Reddit was still kind of niche when you compare it to, say, Twitter or Facebook. My grandma's on Twitter and Facebook, while Reddit even to this day is too technical for "the masses".

Honestly, it took me longer than it should have. I should have ditched Reddit years ago. But I'm here for it now. Fuck Musk, fuck Spez, and fuck the advertising-supported corporate hellscape of the modern internet in general.

Of course, many of these problems will come to the fediverse as well. Instances do indeed cost money to run. Too much for an intrepid webmaster to pay out of their own pocket just for fun in the long-term. Lemmy might just be a stepping stone.

13 years, never looked back. I like Lemmy though! Feels like the start of the internet.

Blew it all away on the last day the API for using a bot to do so still worked. https://www.reddit.com/user/Reygle Profile's only still "active" is to watch a few places, but I'm never contributing again and I refuse to install the official app and only load the site in Firefox with an ad blocker on mobile.

I started using Reddit in 2007ish or thereabout. I'm done. I am sick of the drama there, the direction of the platform, and the people are nicer here to boot.

10+ years, and really rooting for Lemmy.

11 year account, 100k karma, deleted all comments.

Created my account in Oct. 2011 after a long time of just lurking. Leaving reddit feels weird, sad but also right, like a breakup that was long overdue.

12 years this month. Left with the 3rd party apps. Might have stayed for some niche communities, but just happened to get suspended while nuking my comment history, appealed, and got permabanned as a response... so Reddit made the final choice for me.

15+ (?) years...

I have not deleted anything but the Reddit app is gone and I have not logged in again since the API thing.

Lemmy is just as good (just a wee bit smaller) and I'll be investing my (sometimes positive) energy here.

11y, I'm very happy I found lemmy tho

I left reddit when I couldn't read it more on baconreader that was my favorite app, now I only visit it on web browser because there are still communities that I use a lot while working like r/cisco and r/fortinet, I really hope those communities move here soon

👋

Been on reddit since ~2010, and paid Premium without interruption ever since they had it. I stopped paying Premium and logged out (haven't deleted my account tbh, but logging out made it annoying enough to interact with the site that it worked for me 😆).

And I found out: Less social media in my life is good. I browse Lemmy some, Tildes some, Firefish/Mastodon some, but honestly, far far less than I used to, and that's cool. Cheers to spez fixing my social media addiction! 🥂

Redditor with 2 accounts for 14 years on RIF. 100% left.

Hello 11 years here, fuck Reddit, long live Lemmy!

13 year user. Reddit communities helped me get through some tough times. I haven't visited in ages, but R/stopdrinking is one of the reasons I'm able to cosplay as a functional human. Many hobbies and passions were found and expanded there. I mod a small subreddit. I didn't delete my account, but it went from visiting multiple times a day to now about once a week.

TBH it makes me pretty sad, and feels like a 'small death' of something I cared about more than I fully realized. I'm still mourning it in some ways, but am also excited about the 'old internet' feel of Lemmy and the fediverse and being part of that ride.

11.5 years here, and was using Narwhal to access on mobile.

Whilst Narwhal seems to have worked out a deal with Reddit to keep going, albeit having to charge in the near future, after all the bad blood caused by everything going on and the uncertainty of whether or not some apps would continue I’ve had enough.

As many have said, the community here seems tight-knit and feels like they really care about things which isn’t something I’ve seen on Reddit for a long time.

Long live Lemmy!

I'm definitely around 10 years. I can't say for sure though as I lurked for the first 3 or 4. I haven't been to reddit since the final day. I logged out of my account on the final day, and as soon as my brother texted that RIF no longer works I uninstalled it. Haven't been back since. Lemmy was originally.... not disappointing exactly, but not "as good" as reddit, but it's quickly improved. I like it a lot. It feels like reddit, if reddit was part of the old internet.

12 years. The amount of knowledge and experience shared in a conversational style was invaluable, but I cannot keep using a service that is hostile to users like me/us.

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.

It's been 12+ years for me.

I haven't left completely, as there a a few subreddits that are important for me for either work or hobbies, but I only browse those now and don't go to the front page or out of specific purpose driven communities that don't have active equivalents on Lemmy. My time on reddit is down to a fraction of what it was prior to June, and I hope I can drop it altogether at some point as more communities grow here.

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

11 years. I commented a lot and had a decent trickle of reasonably successful posts over that time.

I got banned just before all this happened because I made an anti-tankie post in an unrelated sub, then gamingcirclejerk auto-banned me with the message "beep boop gamer detected!", whereupon I replied, "What the fuck? Do you have literally any explanation for this?" and then I was banned for "harrassment".

Just basically a sitewide policy being abused by authoritarian assholes. They abuse their mod powers to harrass users they don't like to provoke a reaction, and the second you say a naughty word they go running to the admins to kick you off the site completely.

I then didn't make another account until I needed to to ask for support on one of the niche communities. I noticed in that time that my mental health improved enormously. This place is a lot nicer and I hope it can catch enough refugees to get critical mass and displace reddit. I'm sure it'll change as it grows but I'm really excited to see how different the culture will be as that happens.

11 years. I refuse to install their app. But I still go back to check Ukraine war updates every few days.

11.5 year old account (same username). Reddit has been shit for years but there was never a real alternative. I tried so hard to make it good: I unsubbed from all of the defaults, curated my feed, used Apollo to block r/all, even blocked a bunch of keywords and chronic resposters. But it was no use, the quality of commentary was on a steady decline (UnDeRrAtEd CoMmEnT), and the arrogance of the average Redditor is staggering given how unoriginal and lazy they actually are (I'm not excluding myself from that comment). Frankly the ban on third party apps was just the straw that broke the camel's back, but really it was a forgone conclusion that I left. Maybe it's just because I've gotten older. I've checked it a few times since "leaving" - it's still shit, and going back makes me realise how bad it actually was.

I refuse to delete my account because I'd rather they (and anyone else) see that my account was purposely abandoned because of their actions.

Lemmy is doing much better, but honestly it's probably because it's empty. It will likely go the same way in years to come, which I welcome because this place deserves the success. I'll enjoy it while I like it... Ironically I tried to post this comment but got wiped by a long outage.

12 years. I was part of the Digg migration. I used to love Digg. Then a bunch of corporate asshole decided to run Digg into the ground and a new found love for Reddit slowly bloomed out of that. I am still hoping to find that love for Lemmy. It's not quite there yet, but it is only a matter of time as I really appreciate the good vibes here.

11 years for me. Once RiF went offline, so did I.

I've been on Reddit for 10 years and now I use Reddit very rarely (only when I feel like a community on Reddit is the only place for me to get info about a specific thing). Now I frequent Lemmy (and Kbin) instead for news, discussions and memes.

About 15 years, various accounts. I left June 30. I have to browse some subreddits simply because their content is so niche, but I do so anonymously, without an active account. Wishing it was easier for some of those communities to migrate and hoping that in time they will.

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!

12 year account, haven’t been back since the blackout started

10. Not completely gone but cut back about 95%

Nearly 12 year account on reddit here. Haven't deleted it yet, but I've stopped browsing reddit for a month now and replaced it with Lemmy/kbin/Mastodon. Don't see myself ever going back.