Just logged in at Reddit to confirm--12 years.
And my whole homepage there is filled with posts about sex. I don't log in there for weeks and it's gone way down hill.
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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.
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12 years, left when Apollo stopped working and went to Lemmy.world... left to another instance today when they started blocking certain communities
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.
Bacon it was my jam. Spent 11 years there. Only slightly miss it to be honest.
12 years here
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.
9 years counts right? I havent left-left but I spend most of my time here now.
Me.
13 years for me and fuck Reddit. I don't see myself going back.
11 years here I think.
11 years. Very active commenter.
I've got high hopes for this place and the fedi-verse in general! I think the decentralized nature has so much potential.
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.
Around 12 years of reddit here. Completely purged my account and then deleted it. Haven't been back since.
Noticed that google which is basically a glorified reddit search engine, has become even worse
11+ years, lurked longer than that. It's probably easier to make the change to Lemmy if you've seen the descent.
12 years
My first account is a little over 12 years old. I catch myself opening up reddit everyone once and a while but have basically completely left at this point. Hadn't been happy with what it's become for years and the most recent shit storm just seemed like a good time to call it quits. 7ish years ago I used to spend a ton of time on the investing subreddits, such as the now notorious and huge wallstreetbets.
The communities I enjoyed have all been overrun and ruined. Reddit became a victim of its own size long ago. Everything is just lowest common dominator crap now. The investing subreddits like wallstreetbets are the most obvious to me. They're just large scale pump and dumps for crypto and meme stocks now. It's ridiculous.
12 years I think for my imekon account on reddit.
Just checked, I've registered my account... 9 years ago. Welp lol
Me
12 years and honestly it’s a welcome change. I see others upset at the content quality but for me it’s a breath of fresh air and gives me good vibes.
11+ years, here
I was on Reddit for around 11 years. Zero regrets leaving.
My Cake day is April 17, 2013.
I was maybe the most active for about the last ½-1 year before this August or something. Maybe 75-90% of my activity was lurking, viewing people's discussions.
I didn't notice negative events regarding Reddit before the API war in the summer. The subreddits I were at were nice places. I guess different communities/subreddits have conversations depending on the topic and how strick or active or casual or entertainment-only the community is about...so it's kinda obvious to me that some places have more decent talk and some of them get karma more easier with smaller effort and stuff...
I'm sad about the API stuff. I lost contact to Relay before they talked about the need of subscription, so they can handle the costs. I'm fine with that, on Relay's side - not angry about that. But my activity in Reddit took a plunge after I deleted Relay from my Android. Nowadays I go to Reddit only to read if there's info I need (problems with software etc) not found as easily some place else, but I don't create new stuff anymore.
I have the 5 year trophy. Not nearly as many years as 10, but still something. I also left Reddit.
I think I joined in 2010 or 11, just to follow the cavs sub and a few others then I think I went all in the span 2014-22
Miss RiF.... But it was perhaps all for the better... Even if we had to make some sacrifices.
Only 9 years here.