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.
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.
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.
12+ Slashdot/Digg exodus redditor here. Quit two weeks before Apollo shut down. Not gonna support Spez being a douche.
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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.
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.
Would have been 12 years this month. I left when they pulled that crap with Christian (Apollo), he’s a friend IRL and I support him 100%.
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.
Sync is back. !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world, currently in closed alpha, public beta only days away.
14 years primary account, 11 years alt. Mod in several >1 million communities.
Deleted everything, replaced my comments (>15k total) and posts (>500, including announcements on subs moderated) with a message stating my reasons, and then deleted both accounts. Plus 4 alts I sparsely used, between 3-8 years old.
10 years here, haven’t modded anything and was mostly active in a few relatively niche subreddits, so, unfortunately, currently Lemmy can’t fill the void quitting Reddit left (yet), but still not looking back.
Not giving the corporate fucks at Reddit any more free content. If you’re living off the community, don’t shit on the community.
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.
Created my first Reddit acc in 2008
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.
All in all nearly 10 year though my last account is 7+ years old and this was the time I actually used the site and didn’t just lurk. My last account isn’t deleted, I just don’t use it anymore. Lemmy at first seemed more complicated, but I stayed for the communication culture and the fediverse concept . I’d love to see lemmy grow to a reddit successor but I doubt it will get this big. Then again I wonder if this isn’t for the positive. Also it is really refreshing not to be suffocated under rage- and clickbait by some malicious algorithm.
16y Redditor here
