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.

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.

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.

Same here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.

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.

6 year.

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%.

12 years here. The day apollo died is the day I stopped logging into reddit.

And it is really hard. That was my default go to free time app. I spent AT LEAST 4 hours A DAY on reddit for most of those 12 years.

Its hard. But on the other hand that site disgusses me now.

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.

I joined Reddit 13 years ago when Digg made their site unusable. I joined Lemmy 1 month ago when Reddit made their site unusable (on mobile). History repeats itself...

I had used Reddit for probably 11-12+ years. Which is why the slow death of the site was so sad. It was one of my favorite places on the net

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

13 years, bye. Fuck spez

11 year redditor, now a Lemming

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.

In with the Digg exodus, out when I learned my favorite 3rd party app was shutting down(Sync, though I'm excited for the Lemmy version!). It's disappointing to learn Reddit's leadership views communities as their property, and their disdain for volunteer moderators and 3rd party apps.

11 years for me, mostly lurking. Happy to move away as it has declined heavily in the last half decade. Lemmy is such a breath of fresh air! I would love to see a continued mass exodus.

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!

Just about 10 years on Reddit. My visits to Reddit dropped by 99.9%; still do a few check-ins with support communities I've used. Here on Lemmy, actively contributing and minor role as mod in a couple of communities. Building a new home in the stars.

10+ years, can't stand browsing it without my dark minimalist RIF. RIP

12 years, fuck em. this is my go-to scroll for when I'm bored now. The communities will grow in time.

Count me in that. Left when rif bit the dust.

I haven't deleted my account just yet but I joined reddit 12 years ago this month, once RIF went under om the 1st I stopped visiting the site altogether. I have friends that still regularly use the site, mainly through old.reddit whom I've told about Lemmy but just aren't quite ready to switch over and that's their choice, due to the amount of content still on the site I can't necessarily blame them, but I just can't in good conscience give reddit the traffic now that they've gone full twitter in their corporate decision making.

11 years. Lemmy is the warm blanket, fresh out of the dryer I didn't know I wanted until now. :-)

For about 6 years but I shall share a story cause why not. I don't remember the exact details of how it unraveled.

So for a lot of time I had an unverified account, one that wasn't linked to any email. I just browsed as usual. Then one day my account got 'locked' and I had to verify it through a mail to unlock it. Now, I think I went ahead and tried linking it to my mail (or it might even be that I tried linking it from the very beginning but never got a confirmation mail), but I wouldn't get any mail. I tried regaining access for a while but I soon made a second account to be able to interact with the content. Now I believe some time had passed and I remembered about my first account, got determined to unlock it. I even contacted support about it. It was at that time that I noticed what went wrong. I had a typo in the mail I had provided, just one letter. That is why I never got any mail, but there still was a problem: there was no option to edit and correct the mail I had given them. I was devastated, there was no way to get that confirmation mail at this point.. unless? What if I created a new email account, one with the typo, so I could receive that mail? I did just that. Created a new google mail account for the sole purpose of getting that mail. I did it, got the mail, unblocked my account, changed the linked mail and deleted the typo-mail account.

I finally got my original account back. I continued however to use the second one, it was more up to date with my interests at the time, but I was happy I managed to solve the issue - no thanks to support.

Thanks for reading my story, have a nice day :)

13 years, and honestly I thank them for the kick in the ass I needed to get off that site.

I overwrote my posts and deleted my account. I wish them luck, but Reddit has evolved into something I no longer want to be a part of.

10+ man it hurt to leave but once Rif was gone i couldn't deal with using that atrocious app.

Lemmy isn't there yet, but out of stubbornness I'll persevere and it will be the replacement we all want.

Absolutely and whole heartedly fuck Spez..... jumped up prick.

I'm not totally out, there's some gaming subreddits which are directly visited by the devs for feedback unfortunately. There's certain mangas I read and shows I watch too. But other than that, everything else is Lemmy.

I know that sounds really unimpressive, but it's actually a significant reduction. I'll only go for very specific reasons, providing dev feedback or discussing a new chapter/episode. That's a few times a week at best for not much time at all. I don't bother regularly browsing the subs for interesting content anymore.

A substantial part of my activity was commenting on politics and world news, and I've completely cut that out. "General discussion" like that is all on Lemmy now, and it's easily the majority. If I'm wasting time at work, it's probably on Lemmy now.

7 years, 1st lemmy post. Hi everybody!

I left Digg in the great migration. Now moved to Lemmy due to the SpezZaster.

Redditor since 2008. Only time I end up there now is if a search result points me to an old post.

13 years.

We built that place with OUR content. And now they want us to pay for the privilege of being there or be buried in ads? The nerve.

11 years. Haven't been back since Sync shut down. I'm really enjoying Lemmy, but I do miss the specific question Google search with site:Reddit added to get some real help with tech problems.

12 years. Was thinking about leaving when they announce the api death blow. Actually decided to leave when i saw how reddit admins blatently lied about the apollo dev situation.

Awards? Never saw those on my 2015 version of baconreader app. Couldn't care less.

13+ years, haven't been back since RIF got closed.

11 years. And, honestly I'm kinda grateful. It was time, regardless of the drama, and an unhealthy amount of my screen-existence was being eaten up by it. There seemed to be a slow, insidious change that I was probably sheltered from by keeping to old-reddit, but even then, the whole spez-API-drama wasn't so much of a shock, but more the final nail in the coffin that reddit is, with no doubt, now a full on corporate for-profit website just like any of the other social media giants, and will continue to act more and more like them. I'll admit I didn't delete my account, just the app, and I still check back in every few days to peek in to a few more niche subreddits that there just isn't any replacement for elsewhere (yet), but spending my time elsewhere has been refreshing.

Had just under 10 years on my current account and I used the official Reddit app the whole time...

But I just don’t support/respect/enjoy it over there anymore.

11 years here. I was very aware the quality of content there had gone down the drain before the API stuff, so when that happened and Lemmy presented itself as a good alternative I left for good!

12 years on reddit, haven't been back since end of May.

I started using reddit around the whole Digg debacle. What's that been? 13 years? Something like that. I preferred Sync and since that's gone, I didn't feel like being strong armed into using their dog shit app. So... Here I am.