Reddit

11 and I don't miss it anymore

Bacon it was my jam. Spent 11 years there. Only slightly miss it to be honest.

I lurked from 2007 to 2009, finally created an account in 2009, and used just that one through maybe the first 5 years or so. In 2014 I started creating alts and deleting old accounts just to be able to cycle through some kind of anonymity to prevent cross referencing comments on one topic with my real identity on another. By 2019 I got pretty aggressive about anonymity and increased the number of alts and throwaways I used (and then used throwaway emails to "verify" with reddit, because I stopped trusting them with the backend data that could be used to correlate alts).

I deleted most of my alts, but kept two, for specific niche interests: the one I used to comment on the nuts and bolts of the legal profession, mostly in private subreddits that weren't crawled by search engines (or AI training), and one that participates in my city's subreddit about local issues.

At this point, I think the technology discussions on lemmy/kbin are already at or above the quality of reddit. There's still a ways to go with other general topics of discussion, but I think we'll get there on the big ones. I don't know if the niche topics will really take off, so for now I keep my reddit accounts that correspond to those.

I had various accounts over the years, but switched from Digg, which must've been pre-2010.

It's sad, but most communities felt crowded with people jumping down other people's throats, so I don't miss many

13+ years on Reddit, never very active though... still modding some smaller communities.

Can't quite recall how long I was on Reddit for, but I joined very early on. Maybe 14 or 15 years old, my account was? Reddit had been getting rubbish for years, possibly the last 6 or 7. I needed this push, and something about Lemmy reminds me of old Reddit. How it was in the early days. Yes, Lemmy does have some work to do, but I don't think it needs to be as popular as Reddit. Let people use other sites too. Way too much in-fighting and faux-drama on Reddit. Hopefully, Reddit traffic will be split between three or four sites. This may stop many of the stupid clashes.

about 12 years I think for me

I made my reddit account when my ex was in the hospital having my daughter. I was on the site for a year or two before that, lurking. All deleted now.

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9y7m with 200k+ karma. I had used Reddit to look at porn for few years before that but finally made an account to ask some tech support question...

I got perma banned not quite a month ago, it was a pretty shitting thing I did so probably deserved it. Definitely helped me in jumping ship.

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12 years here

I lurked for a few years before making an acct. It was just over 11 when I deleted it.

I literally only go back for a couple of the NSFW reddits like once a week. Other than that it is dead to me.

I deleted my 11yr high karma account on 1st July. I had another before that which was a couple of years or so old.

I did it in protest but as an interesting side effect, my mental health has improved slightly. Guess actively engaging with toxicity does have an effect.

I deleted sync off my phone, I still check on desktop but my usage has gone down 90% easily. Same with Twitter.

The alternatives are great, but they are still young and don't have the userbase in the niche subs I frequent.

Not quite 10, but something around that. Popped up on place to contribute pixels to the guillotine and such, but haven't been back.
Use RSS to keep up with nosleep which is the only thing I really enjoyed very much.

Kbin/fedi really wasn't that hard to adjust to, in the end.

Around 15 years for me. I also took 3 10+ year old accounts too

Yeah I hauled ass this year. Logged out and will not go back. It went from decent for years to cumbersome garbage real quick.

Just checked: oldest account i still have is 16 years old.

11 year, here. I lurk for it to supplement my news until Lemmy ramps up. Otherwise, I'm done there. Not exactly by choice, but because I was wrongly permanently suspended and admins refuse to listen to an appeal. Their loss, for I made them money through gildings both given and received, informative content, and reporting of incivility, bigotry, and violence.

12 years on Reddit. Found it after digg messed with their site design causing a mass exodus. Now it’s happening again! Weee!

I was a reddit user for around 7 years, deleted my account once 1 year ago (due to becoming privacy conscious) and tried to minimize my use of it, with occasional relapses.

I was mostly using reddit via libreddit frontend as I would mostly lurk and rarely comment, and because of the loading speed of the website (no need to load and run tons of javascript code every time), but since the API changes I can probably only look at 1 subreddit and around 3 posts before reaching the rate limit. Needless to say, this killed my main way to interact with the platform and seeing that lemmy got a lot more people now, I made an account here yesterday.

10 year Redditor 13 years if we count lurking.

Just discovered Lemmy and plan to leave reddit at least partially. Reduced my time there already by more than 50% since the API stuff.

That would be me.

5y, I really miss Unexpected sub

13 years for me and fuck Reddit. I don't see myself going back.

9 years counts right? I havent left-left but I spend most of my time here now.

12 years.. I closed my account June 1st haven't even opened the site

I have the 5 year trophy. Not nearly as many years as 10, but still something. I also left Reddit.

Me.

Created my first Reddit acc in 2008

I started using Reddit back in 2015, now i'm over it, its become corporate.