Reddit

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.

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12+ years, Digg->Reddid refugee here

11 years here

I can't check right now, but I know for certain I had at least 13 years

Had an account since 2011. Deleted it mid July. Haven’t logged in once. I miss the metalcore community but that’s about it.

Nearly 14 years, right after digg imploded.

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.

13 years, cut and run when 3rd party app support was killed.

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

A bit over 10 years for me. Haven't looked back. That shit was rough.

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.

I was an active Digger and Redditor in 2006-7 then migrated fully to Reddit post digg-tastrophy. I’ve honestly found it hard to stay away from Reddit but the existence of Lemmy world and the fact that I just discovered they took Aaron Schwartz off the list of cofounders is strengthening my resolve. Thank you all for being here.

Edited to add - I have no intention of returning to Reddit. The average person has precious little they can do to change the tides of fortune, but one of them is to consistently vote with their wallet. In this case, our attention is filling their wallet, so I remove my attention and clicks.

I started lurking Reddit around 2010, actually got an account in 2012, to comment and upvote.

Before that, I was somewhat active from the mid to late 2000s in the MxTabs Forums (musician forum), Last.fm, and a brief stint at 4chan (never again).

Started at MxTabs in like middle school. They were having on/off problems with music industry assholes because we were "stealing sheet music." Around 05-06, Mx started having an exodus because of copyright issues, a couple DDOS attacks, a spam brigade attack and just people moving on to other places, so I started hanging out more on Last.fm. It was a fun and more relaxed community. Mx, while fun, was a bit more snobbish and took posting way more seriously than Reddit ever did.

By the time I reached college in 08-09, I hung out for a bit on 4chan. But it was too much, although I was there for the whole "New Users can't Triforce" thing (instead of users they said a homophobic slur). In which they coerced some kid into bricking his family's PC, to make an ascii art version of the Triforce from Zelda games. Basically like this:

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(EDIT: Can't format it on Lemmy, despite the preview showing it)

Eventually made it to Reddit, from IRL friends talking about it a lot. At the time, Reddit was like 4chan lite. So the meme cycle started in 4chan, Tumblr or Reddit (mostly 4chan, though). Made it's way to 9gag, where it got more traction, because my girlfriend at the time would send me 9gag meme links, that I had already seen on Reddit. Then it'd move to Instagram, Twitter, sometimes Vine, get beaten over the head on Facebook and a hollowed-out version of it would finally die during late-night comedy skits and monologues.

I was on Reddit for a lot of fucked-up, weird, tragic and funny shit that went down there. Obama's AMA, the whole shit with Ellen Pao and banning r/fatpeoplehate, Woody Harelson's AMA, Wycleaf Jean's AMA (a similar but lesser talked-about AMA disaster), the whole Boston Bombers incident, Pizzagate, Aaron Swartz's passing. When the_donald started "as a joke" and then went full batshit, racist (it was always there festering under, until the egregiousness hit a critical mass). The fappening, all the gore subreddits that got banned, the first version of r/place, live broadcasts during COVID and all the insane amounts of misinformation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the daily megathreads and now the whole fuck spez thing.

Granted forgetting a bunch more, but I was probably there for that. Left there as soon as I couldn't access through Apollo. Although, for years I used Alien Blue, then it started going to shit once Reddit got it and started forcing me to make an avatar and giving me free flair.

Now, I only lurk desktop on Firefox, just a couple communities, but a few of them are starting to pick up on Lemmy, so we'll see how this transition goes.

Damn, I just realized I've seen a lot of internet culture in this time. Like on man regaling on past tales, despite being 33.

Checking in.

Me

11 years. Fuck spez

11 years here, going back every now and then only on desktop. Probably dropped my usage by 99%

9 years and 9 months currently.

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.

Got my first Reddit account in 2012 (which unfortunately was hacked in 2020 and got shut down). So I have used Reddit for 11 years at this point. I have been sick of the direction Reddit is going for a while, and when I realized Lemmy had started seeing some traffic I thought it was time to give this place a shot. So far Lemmy feels a bit like Reddit used to, which isn't a bad thing.

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.

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

I joined before Obama was president so that's checks calendar 15+ years.

Joined Reddit in 2011 when my wife introduced me to it (and RiF).

Left when the API drama started and was glad when I found feddit.de (later switched to sh.itjust.works).

Have since deleted my reddit account and only browse it when I can't find any other source for a technical problem/solution.

Made my account in 2011. I'm not deleting, but I've completely stopped using it outside of the occasional google search that points to a Reddit thread. Lemmy is a legitimate and viable alternative to Reddit at this point, and apps like Wefwef are leagues better than the official reddit app

I torched all my content. In hindsight I should’ve left a way for people to contact me in case I’d posted a solution to a problem. But it’s too late now.

I pretty much left right after the digg redesign which turned the site into a tabloid. More than a decade ago.

It makes me sad but I was part of the digg fiasco and switched to reddit. I was hours... And hours a day and pretty active.

I haven't been back to reddit since it killed the Sync for Reddit app. 100% Lemmy now.

Yo. ✋

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.

'ello there! I have my 11 year badge on my primary reddit account. I haven't bothered to go back to reddit, and I don't really have much desire. I'm splitting my time pretty evenly between Lemmy and Squabbles.

I also appreciate that neither of these communities have been completely co-opted by psycho alt-right nutjobs like Voat was.

edit: my biggest regret was that I was something like 12k comment karma away from making it to centuryclub :( that was kind of a big deal as a casual poster who usually showed up to threads way too late.

16 years there. Once Boost stopped working I got off the site and migrated here. I've read threads that come up in Google searches, and looked at some specialty subs since, but nothing longer than 5 minutes every few days.

Scrubbed and deleted a 12yr account and haven't been back.

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.

15+ years for me. Idon't miss it as much as I thought I would.

9.5ish here

Yes.