Reddit

13 years on reddit, now one month off

I'm at 12 years. I haven't fully quit Reddit, per se, particularly as there are official support communities there that are nowhere else. But I'm trying to minimize my use and shift toward something, hopefully this, that better represents the open and decentralized approach I want to see. One company dictating exactly how I access my data is a problem for me.

11 years here, nuked my account from low orbit once sync stopped working. Shit is dumb, but I survived Digg, Slashdot, and all that shit. Love what I'm seeing on Lemmy.

12 years (Dec 2010), 113000 comment karma, Reddit premium (still 10 months of that remaining apparently).

Cancelled my premium subscription, and I rarely visit the site anymore (usually just to gawk at the lack of any content). I was a large contributor to tech support and networking subs including /r/techsupport and /r/homenetworking. Avid user of old.reddit.com and RES.

Needless to say, I'm sad that we needed to find a new home, though, I get it. I'm not mad at anyone specific about it, beyond /u/spez. And I'm firmly invested in to Lemmy.

Fuck spez.

Right here! 11 years, 2,000,000 karma, made the frontpage almost weekly. Same username as here.

7 years for me. But that's still substantial.

I had been there since 2010, I didn't even think twice about leaving.

16 years. No RIF equates to no Reddit for the most part for me. Haven't really 'left' formally or permanently, but spend more time here day to day now, its almost the same pattern for how Digg just kind of evaporated from use off over a few weeks as I used Reddit more and more daily.

I’m one of those c/nfl mods and 12+ redditors that has moved on. I know Reddit probably has some life in it still, but the quality of the communities is going to go down. Decentralization serves users best.

I haven't entirely left yet, but I'm using Lemmy more and more. Been on reddit for 15 years.

~13 years, nuked my account. Fuck Spez.

It's gotta be 13-15 yrs for me. I haven't deleted my account because I just stopped going over there. They had a good run. Better than digg haha.

Another 13 year old account

7 years, never coming back

12 years but honestly, I am glad the kerfuffle led me to Lemmy as well as other places I didn't know about. It seems there are many excellent alternatives who take the culture if their place seriously, which reddit never did. I get much more of a coffee shop discussion feel here.

16 years on Reddit here but I was never a big user. In its early days it was a less toxic version of Digg but then Reddit itself eventually became Digg.

I wish these sites would use a more Slashdot-like moderation system. Not everyone deserves an equal vote especially with all the bots running around. Or Ars-like if you absolutely can't live without the pure democratic system.

I moved from Digg to reddit about 15 years ago, before the mass Digg exodus. For the last 5 years I was a paid reddit subscriber, mostly just because it was my most visited site and I wanted to support it.

Immediately after the API announcements, I cancelled my subscription and deleted all my posts. I also deleted most of my comments, and edited some to say I've moved to Lemmy. I planned to do that with all of them but I got bored.

There are some niche subreddits I still visit directly because I haven't found comparable communities, but I barely use the site at all anymore. I'm enjoying Lemmy and have also dipped back into RSS feeds for the first time in about a decade.

Unless something drastically changes, I will never post or comment there again. It's only a matter of time before I ditch it completely.

12 years. Haven't browsed Reddit since the blackout. Still end up there sometimes from search results, but I no longer participate. Thinking about hosting my own Lemmy instance.

I'm not off Reddit entirely, but I'm trying to transition here for what I can. It looks like most of the communities I'm in are here too, they're just a lot quieter. So I'm looking to post more.

Was on Reddit for ~7 years, I think.

11 years, haven’t logged in since Apollo was killed.

I haven't totally left it, but I did delete a bunch of stuff and I don't check it as often.

Been mostly on Mastodon.

Hey. About 12 years and I've never used reddit without something like RES on the browser, Sync on Android or Apollo on iOS.

I've been there for 10+ years. I'm gone now. Haven't opened Reddit to browse it since Baconreader stopped working. Every now and then I am directed there for answers to my questions, but that's the only thing I use it for now. Lemmy doesn't fully replace it, but maybe it was time to let that braindead browsing addiction die off anyway.

Yup. Can't remember the exact date because I deleted those accounts, but from a glance at emails it was no later than 2010.

I now waste my time here, and occasionally look at a subreddit as a logged-out user for certain informational threads (eg. the pinned driver discussion thread atop /r/NVIDIA, or the pinned release discussion thread atop /r/UnRAID).

Hopefully in time, more of this discussion will migrate away from Reddit. I deleted my phone apps and my browser bookmark, so I no longer autopilot my way there.

My 14 year old account is dead and hasn't been logged into since the api day. I do still lurk on politics and one other sub, but I use RiF to do it.

Had a 12 year old account, wiped and deleted

12 years, I was kind of surprised reddit just kept chugging along.

I'd used Reddit in some fashion since about 2012. Jumped ship once I realized Lemmy was gaining steam and Spez wasn't going to budge. I'm sad, no doubt, but I think it's because Reddit was easy. Been lurking on Lemmy more lately just from lack of time, but I'm glad to see that things are still rolling along! I think the communities here are full of folks trying to make something amazing. Happy to contribute!

Edit: Punctuation.

12 years. Not going back. Way better here..

Yeah probably 10+ years.

It's going to be hard to stop using Reddit though. Very little niche communities have migrated.

12 years in September. Was difficult those first couple of weeks to leave after so long but I think I’ve finally detoxed.

I'm not completely off reddit yet (reduced interaction but still disentangling from it, it'll probably take a little while yet to be completely gone), but I made the account I have there now in August 2008, just shy of 15 years ago. I lurked for a good while before making that account though. (edit: > 150K comment karma, most participation on low volume subs)

More than 10 years redditor here -- probably close to 11 or 12, can't say for sure. API changes and the consequent death of RiF pushed me out.

At 8 years young I am way short of the long term Reddit membership criteria, but don't think that is really important, rather what matters are the reasons creating Reddit refugees and how they transition.

Personally I am transitioning away from Reddit as organisational goals are, in my view, trampling the community foundation of Reddit.

My personal transition to the Fediverse is not friction-less, and there are new community norms and tools to be aware of. In my case I have reverted to RSS to monitor key Reddit subreddits, where the fediverse does not yet have the critical informational mass, have started posting to the fediverse, and already learned new stuff such as there being different tools and expectations when it comes to things such as cross-posting.

Like others have said I encourage patience when it comes to Reddit refugees such as myself, encouraging rather than denigrating our ignorance when it comet to getting to grips with the fediverse, and all of its differences and tools. We will all be stronger for that in the long run!

Apparently I have been there about 12 years. Don't go anymore and pause when google takes me there. Though I am not creating content so if I look I am mostly just using bandwidth.

15 years in September. I haven't bailed completely but almost.

Creeping towards 13 years on my main. When rif stopped working I was done. Can't believe how shitty they've been over there.

::Raises Hand:: 12 year club here.

13 years and used to have multiple Reddit tabs open. It was a rough few days when the API boycott happened, but between that and losing Apollo, I realized that I was spending way too much time there, and I'm ok not being there.

I came over with the mass Digg exodus. Used RIF as long as I can remember. Don't go there anymore.

15 year user. Haven't been back since the API changes were made public.

I had been on reddit since 2013. Didn't look back since they took away the API.

I, too, am Spartacus.