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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.

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[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah around 10 years here

[–] 01189998819991197253 3 points 2 years ago

✋ 15ish years. Left after Reddit confirmed they wouldn't be changing the policy

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's a few subs I mod that I actually care about on an alt, I just login to mod. But yeah after 12ish years I'm pretty done

And for the record, it was not my choice to keep these communites open, I was in the minority on the mod team that wanted to fully migrate.

[–] thatguydude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

12 here. Hate it, they had a good thing and they fucked it up for personal gain. I'm never gonna make amends with it.

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Me. Around 10-11 year account. It sucks since Reddit has been my landing page ever since joining. It really hurts that greed destroyed a good thing we have there.

But I feel that lemmy has something better to offer.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

14 year old here. I've been back a few times to run Power Delete Suite to modify my existing comments, then delete them. Not sure what's happening, but the above is "a few times" as I checked once and sure enough some of my deleted comments were reappearing on that damned site!

I've also deleted all saved comments, etc.

[–] Botia@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I joined reddit 2009, so I suppose 14 years. Back then I was more using Slashdot.

[–] ensignrolaren@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

11 years here. Deleted all my posts (not that I was a crazy prolific poster, but it still took hours and hours with the tool running).

[–] toasty_mcboost@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Haven't deleted my account but I've exclusively been here now. It was a few years old. Want to see Lemmy (and other alternative sites) grow as reddit loses.

[–] derg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Only 7 years for me, but long enough to hope they miss my traffic.

[–] cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I started using reddit in 2011, I'm not a power user or major contributor by any means. But I'm a lonely person who got joy out of my small niche communities, and I fear those are the spaces that will take the longest to reappear on lemmy, especially because I have no interest in modding or starting any of them myself. I haven't actually subscribed to any communities on lemmy yet, I'm waiting for the sync app to be ready so things will be more like I'm used to using (aka easier) and then I'll log into old reddit on my computer, write down all the subreddits I'm subscribed to, and begin to see which ones exist on the different lemmy instances and start to make this place feel more like my lil internet home. I liked tithe reddit experience more when I first started using it, and I'm excited for lemmy to kind of have that feeling again, since it's new and small still.

[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Nearly 14 years, right after digg imploded.

[–] mebiman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had been lurking since ~2011. Probably racked up around 15 comments total, but it was a near-daily visit.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Deleted mine a month ago.

I don't miss it one bit.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

+1 here. I used the same account for over a decade, then left the site when RiF died.

Enshittification strikes again. It was only a matter of time, really. Reddit ownership is neither smart nor innovative. It's no longer a site for users, it's a platform for advertisers.

[–] megane_kun@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

My oldest account is at 9 years 10 months at the moment. Was a lurker for a time before that too. I haven't deleted my accounts out of concern of my comments reappearing, but I've kept any interaction with that site at a minimum.

Most of the time, I just check to see if any comments resurfaced, or if I've got a love letter from the admins. Neither has happened so far, but I'm not sure it won't happen. Until then, I will keep scrubbing my accounts.

I don't see myself returning there. I've lost any desire to do so, and my old, yet scrubbed accounts will serve as a reminder never to interact with that site ever again. Peek, if I must, but never interact.

[–] MIDIthrKID@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

12 year club. Fuck spez.

[–] ElectricCattleman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

12 years. Migrated to Reddit when Digg collapsed. Reddit slowly changed over the last 4 years or so, for the worse, even before the recent shenanigans. Glad to be here.

[–] SpringMango7379@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Had my account for 13 years and was a lurker for a while prior to that.

I thought I might miss Reddit but I really don't. Only issue is trying to find info on random things I can't find anywhere else.

[–] Hboc22@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

11 years. Should have left multiple times during that stint but RIF shutting down was the last nail in the coffin.

[–] jibbist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

16yrs, made an account before the Digg drama, migrated there after.

I’ve not been back since, other than friends linking to stuff there basically

[–] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

15 year account and happy with Lemmy here. Only going back to Reddit once in a while to make sure all my comments remain deleted.

[–] crappymccrappy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

~14 years. Between the Fediverse and sites, like Squabbles, Mastodon, Lemmy of course, kbin, and Beehaw, I can browse more content than Reddit while individual sites build up more content. Now I use Reddit only about 1% as much as I did in the past, usually only when a Google search directs me there for a quick answer. Deleting my account felt really good too.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Eight years almost to the day between leaving Reddit then joining here, but I feel like a refugee multiple times over.

Old BBSes briefly; then IRC then and that chat thing Wired had for a while; the various Yahoo boards; Facebook (shudder, only a year or so); but mainly this one forum I loved that Twitter killed; Digg a little on the side; then Metafilter for more than a decade before I buttoned and came to Reddit.

I agree with wreel (how do we "@" people here?) that this feels a lot like the early fora of the original www, even a bit like BBSes on steroids at times.

[–] maajmaaj@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

11-12 years here. I wasnt there at the beginning, but I sure as hell saw some of the "greatest hits" of fuckery.

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

About 12 years, I was living in Rarotonga at the time and I was looking for something to replace my YouTube habit because data was herendously expensive and reddit was mostly text and images, it was fantastic

[–] Zoness@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Twelve years on reddit and just about as long using reddit is fun, but now I'm gone.

[–] mpolden@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

13 years. I lurked a few years before creating an account. Been using Lemmy for the most part since the Apollo app shut down a month ago. I still append "reddit" to my searches though, so I occasionally end up there for older content.

[–] sadepyrite@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I made my first account in 2007. I ended up deleting it before long but I made another in 2009, which I deleted a couple of weeks ago (after manually deleting every comment and post I had ever made).

Officially, I had just reached the 14-year club.

[–] Erro@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

14 years. Mostly on RIF. Deleted my account on the last day. Enjoying it here. Many thanks to all of you!

[–] hilly@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

16 years and one month on my main. Now onto my third lemmy server. Hope things settle here as it has a little bit of that early days of the Internet magic.

[–] Linuto@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was right at the 10 year mark myself. I only use it now when a thread comes up in a search, I don't ever go there just for the sake of it anymore.

[–] MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

10+ years here, not sure how long because I deleted my account.

I deleted it towards the end of June, when Christian announced Apollo was closing down, and how Spez fucked him by twisting his comments.

I was very active in *Nix subs, like Linux, Ubuntu, elementaryOS, helping users. I was also active in the macOS patching subs (mojave / Catalina / OpenCore legacy), with guides and news. So there's definitely some substance lost by me deleting all my posts / comments. Do I care? Not really.

[–] JTheDoc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Two accounts. One I used to moderate that I made in 2009, and my other account was made about 10 years ago.

Used RIF on mobile and RES on desktop.

Now I use neither, deleted my moderator account and just left my more personal account to rot. (Don't want to delete everything on that one just yet).

[–] hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I was in the 13 year club, and most of that was using RIF.

[–] poxonus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I’m old hat. I joined during the Digg vs Reddit wars of the early 2000s. Glad to see a new contender on the block.

[–] SpamCamel@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

About 14 years or so for me. Was starting to get a bit bored of that place anyway. I've been enjoying Lemmy a lot so far.

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah. I got tired of posting and a message saying "you cant post that for sake of our community" across almost every single subreddit. If I see that shit on lemmy I'll make sure to block the entire server that has lemmys doing that. Its one thing to can some bots. Its another to have game devs as subreddit mods block negative sentiment for example, or an overzealous mod push their views and just delete comments.

Its not like I'm out there posting some insane content, either. I tried posting a 15 second video of a funny bug of a dude stuck spinning around to crab rave and I couldn't even post that to the diablo 4 games subreddit.

[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

13 years here

[–] Brkdncr@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Minted@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Been on Reddit for just a touch over ten years. Still visit it not logged in on a forked Reddit app with ad/telemetry content disabled, but refuse to engage content whatsoever.

[–] SilentSeven@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

At least 10 years....won't go and check. I'm working hard to get the hang of the fediverse and being patient while it grows up. I'll check a few niche subjects on Reddit but without a phone app my usage is down like 98%. Not posting or voting. Obligatory fuck /u/spez. What a dumbass maneuver he pulled...so many other choices. Can't wait for him to go down in flames....

[–] captainborracho@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Well over 10 years. Mostly comments rather than posts. Dropped out at the end of June and haven't been back. So far Lemmy and Mastodon have filled the gap.

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