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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 19 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

15 years. I haven't deleted my account yet but I haven't logged in since API day. I have a redirect in place to go through a libreddit proxy in case I end up on the site through a web search or something.

I am pretty commited to never contribute to the site again and I am planning to delete my account at some point. I want to make sure that I can reliably delete my full comment history before I do that and I haven't bothered researching that yet. I am hoping that there will be a way to do it through a GDPR or CCPA request at some point rather than me having to do the work. (yeah I know there are tools but it's still an effort)

Reddit had been my greatest online addiction by far. It's kinda nice that they made it so easy to kick it. A bit like finding an unexpected out from a bad relationship. Good luck with the rest of your life Reddit!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    14 years myself. More than a third of my life. Your bad relationship analogy is a pretty good one (the analogy, that is). I was in a real life one of those about the same time I joined reddit. Glad that one didn't last nearly as long!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    15 years and 4 letter username here as well. I really hadn't done much with it up until 3-4 years ago and I really started liking many of the communities there a lot over the last few years. Some were terrible, but many were great, largely because of the volunteer moderators.

    But, I'm all but done with it at this point. Really enjoying Lemmy and Mastodon.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Reddit had been my greatest online addiction by far

    Yeah for me too, glad reddit broke that habbit for me, with lemmy my participation is definitely more healthy, less "doom" scrolling, more productive things like programming.

    I want to make sure that I can reliably delete my full comment history before I do that and I haven’t bothered researching that yet.

    What you want to do, is probably fill all your comments and posts automated with garbage or a fuck u/spez message, or lemmy promotion. I think this hurts reddit even more. (With something like this: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit )

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