Reddit

13 years. At least 1 purely as a lurker before that. Reddit has been in my life longer than my dad 🤣

I was a couple months away from my 10th cake day, but I'd been lurking for a few years before actually registering.

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.

Over 10 here for me. I came with the great Digg migration.

8 Years myself

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.

Hola! 1 10 year account, 3 accounts at 3+ years.

Yep was there 12-13 years and haven't been back since sync stopped working.

On reddit since 2011, used Rif since 2013. Used reddit through browser before that. I still had Rif installed on my phone after the switch to lemmy, and I used to take a look back to reddit every now and then. But now I have a new phone and Rif is not available on the Play store. I refuse to use the reddit app. Good bye Rif, you were my companion for many years.

I've been on reddit since 2010, stopped when the 3rd parties were killed. The only thing I really miss is magictcg, there's nowhere else online anymore that keeps track of everything. I miss my daily dose of Wizards of the Coast drama

Lurked for a long time then made my account in March of 2013. Had around 180,000 comment Karma. Deleted all my old comments (and some of them even seem to have stayed deleted) and haven't been back in weeks.

I joined back in 2012 because I found more information looking up stuff there than I did on Google. I was one of those poor people who would go on reddit on the computer then go on the app and then go back to my computer. When I caught wind of what was going on with the third party and how it broke my favourite app Bacon Reader, I only went back just to see how many more John Oliver pictures were posted on r/pics and if there was any additional posting on and about pitties.

+1

11 years. Just got my notification that my account data is ready for downloading. When I get time, the next step is to replace all my comments and then delete them prior to deleting my account. No plans to return.

Right here!

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.

hopped on in 2011. stopped when apollo died

Moi

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.

Created my first Reddit acc in 2008

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

Account just over 10 years, lurker for even longer. Don't really use it anymore except when following links etc

15y club here. Still go there from time to time, as there are very specific tech communities that I go to for help, unfortunately, but most of my social media is over here.

That would be 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.

I joined reddit in 2009 after lurking for a year. Loved it for most of the time. Account now deleted :(

Aye

Was there well over a decade, started several different communities and helped do the tech stuff for several others when they started, made tools for communities and various bots that work for Reddit - only been back to check for messages and move my stuff over to here (on dedicated accounts hosted on more niche communities, probably going to start my own instance for my main project when I've written the bots and backend)

I really think that the people who care about communities and are willing to make the effort to help them grow are the main people who've left Reddit, they're the ones Reddit hurt the most and they're the ones actually engaged enough to put the effort to change in while it's still a bit messy - it's our job to make this place great, to make tools that improve it and new things to work with it

I had my account from 2017 up until the 1st of July. I didn't delete it yet, but I do plan on using PowerDeleteSuite as soon as my computer gets fixed.

11-12 years since my first post on reddit, 13-15 years since i first started lurking.

Me I have been subbed on Reddit for well over ten years and left promptly after spez went nuclear on the API stuff

TBT I was just looking for a good reason to kill that addiction.

16y Redditor here

Me. I had 11 years. Same name as here, it's probably all on the wayback machine or something, I did delete my account before I learned about the thing that scrambles your entire history into nonsense, I would definitely have waited if I had known that existed.

It was a process, and overall the site worked well enough for me, but a few specific things made it less and less useful over time.

The one-two punch that made me say fuck it was, I was basically down to doing two things there that I cared about: posting my animals to the cute subs, and interacting in r/Winnipeg, and less often, r/Manitoba, which were directly relevant subs to my life. I also subscribed to a lot of other ones, but the content was all kinda take-it-or-leave-it stuff. I also do shitpost a lot, and I appreciate that we have places for that too, I have historically shitposted where others were trying to eatpost more than I wish I had, though I am referring to a question of tone rather than trolling or ratfucking or any of that 4chan crap. I just don't read the room well sometimes.

Anyways, first, I got shadowbanned in r/Winnipeg, which was the last space on Reddit that I found both relevant and somewhat harmonious to my viewpoint - the sub is an echo chamber, and I was aware of that and didn't particularly like it, but I would rather be in a chamber that echoes my voice if I must, and at the time it seemed like there were no other such spaces available. The internet used to have places where you could have a really lively debate with people you don't agree with and look forward to seeing them and hearing about their gardens the next day. It was really like that here, once. It's kinda weird looking back at it now, I should look in on some of those folks.

Anyways, I will never know what happened exactly, because shadowban, your accuser not being required to face you is a feature. If a mod had ever told me what it was I did, there is actually an extremely high possibility that I would have agreed that it was not acceptable, cause I go back and wish I had played stuff differently all the time, really. I can trace that it was about three weeks before I noticed, because my posts were typically good for 5-20 points of upvotes when I posted, sometimes a 100+ jackpot even, but they all started getting consistent zeroes. Logout, check, oh hey, I don't exist now! The cowardliness of it, the fact that whoever did it will never take ownership of it and justify it, and that being the unchanging reality of Reddit, was extremely eye-opening.

Digression Incoming: This shadowban did not make me leave Reddit, but now that I have, I basically won't participate in a space that has shadowbanning. Last I heard they don't have that here (indeed, the public mod logs are a big feature for me) but I will be gone if it's ever implemented. I also don't believe it will ever be seen as necessary here the way it became necessary on Reddit; Reddit mods can ban accounts, but they can't ban IPs or IP blocks or any such. Why? Reddit needs lots of users to get those profits happening. If they start banning IP blocks or domains willy nilly that is failure out of the gate. The tone, or even the integrity of communities, takes a backseat to the IPO.

Here, on the other hand, we are a community of people running these servers out of pocket or community supported, and therefore, no Instance admin is incentivized to do anything but ban/defed a troublesome IP or domain; everyone here despises the trolls, from top to bottom, and none of us, from top to bottom, have any use for them. The Reddit board, on the other hand, they actually NEED the trolls, they need big numbers to accomplish their goals, and what those numbers represent - trolls, bots, AI - it does not matter. The difference is capitalism. Everyone should really be noticing that, imo.

Anyways I still had one community that was somewhat relevant, r/Manitoba, which positions itself as the "free speech" alternative to r/Winnipeg's echo chamber. This one, I know exactly what happened, someone posted an article where a bunch of F350 drivers from a small Conservative-voting community were out protesting the state of the highways, which are atrocious and getting worse every year; I used to do asphalt, and we used to put down a few inches every summer on the road up to my place; the last four years it's either been no work done, or else that thing where they spray tar and then cover it with fine gravel.

Anyways, these being the people who have laughed at protestors for decades and also voted this shit in, I got a little up in my blood and posted a comment that included the line "Enjoy the world you voted for, hicks." I guess I figured as a rural-dwelling white dude I get to use that one. Anyways, reported, and next thing I know, three day ban. So much for that free speech absolutism eh?

Either way though, it was no longer an amenable place to my viewpoint, so that was that; since there are many places one can post one's cats for oos an aws, the ban lasted about an hour, which is how long it took me to sit down at my PC and delete my account.

12 years, not that I've had enough per say, more like the app on my phone stopped working lol

Enough of what 🤣 oh no my favourite third party client is down I have to migrate to another😭

I'm not using that shitty official app. 11+ years from account registration