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.

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    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.

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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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    I was 2006 adopter when Paul Graham dropped a link to it on his website. I was there before the original programming subdomain Reddit and even before they supported picture thumbnails. I’ve seen its wild mutations over the years. Bacon, narwhal, Mr Splashypants, Colbert name dropping, the original video IAMAs, the jailbait fiasco, spacedicks, random celebrity users, the redesign from hell, etc etc.

    I left.

    It was a good site for a long time but after being on Lemmy for a while I can see a clear difference in experience and now I realize Reddit has been bad for a while. Terrible discourse, lowest common denominator posts, and falling into the trap of continuous engagement just to get the next hit of dopamine. Honestly, spez ruining the site has been good for me personally.

    I’m proud of our rejection of a commercial online experience. This is the thoughtful community I want to be a part of. This feels like the Internet of the late 90s in terms of authenticity. With its revival with the Fediverse I’m hopeful that these types of communities will forever be part of our digital experience.

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    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%.

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        I’m not friends with either of them, never even met them, but I left for the same reason: it doesn’t have to be happening to me personally for me to realize I want no part of that shit. (That, and gleefully fucking over the accessibility users at the same time. Pick one.)

        Either way,

        “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass.” – Walter Sobchak

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            Man, when I wrote that I was SO close to going with “This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps” (because that was the censors fucking the script in the ass) but then I thought, nah, too meta. Reading your comment makes me think I should have gone with it, lol. I too upvote Little Lebowski-isms in the wild.

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    13 years on Reddit. I was part of the Great Digg Exodus… now the Great Reddit Exodus.

    I deleted all my comments on Reddit, all of my posts, and then toasted my user account just before the API deadline. Not looking back.

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    13 years one account, 9 years the other.

    After the API enshittification clarion, I sat down for hours and munged every. single. damn. comment with a complaint about this.

    THEN I deleted the accounts.

    For now, Lemmy is merely potential, but shaping up. Mastodon is microblogging and is built around individuals promoting themselves, so it feels egotistical, but it’s more mature than Lemmy so I lurk there for now too.

    Ultimately I am a forum user, as a participant in a conversation. Looking forward to that again.

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    Don’t know my exact age and can’t check as I post this because I refuse to visit reddit on my phone via anything but Apollo. But I’m pretty sure I’m 10+.

    I do miss it. Once a month or so I’ll go peek at a couple smaller communities/game communities I was in that don’t have a Lemmy equivalent yet.

    But I don’t comment anymore. I canceled my reddit premium the moment Apollo mentioned shut down. And I learned how to use the stronger mode of uBlock Origin to ensure they get as little from me as possible.

    The site as I see it os shattered and barely functional. I can let what I’m used to shine through when I really want to by enabling certain domains to pass through uBlock Origin and NoScript. But tbh the shattered state is kind of fittingly metaphorical.

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    My account was 14 years old before I left for Lemmy. Seen a lot of stuff come and go on reddit. Lots of changes over the years and very rarely did I like them but stayed cause there was no real valid alternative. Finally heard about Lemmy during API changes and decided to pull the plug on reddit.

    Reddit had been going downhill for nearly 10 years now, to be honest

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    Yeah I hauled ass this year. Logged out and will not go back. It went from decent for years to cumbersome garbage real quick.

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    12+ Slashdot/Digg exodus redditor here. Quit two weeks before Apollo shut down. Not gonna support Spez being a douche.