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.

  • @BilboBargains@lemmy.world
    9•2 years ago

    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.

    • MadWorksEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      You remember when Reddiquette was a thing? I remember when Reddiquette was a thing.

    • @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      2•2 years ago

      Been on Reddit for about 8 years, but I’ve seen enough. Once a company starts treating you like trash, it’s time to go. These things have happened with other platforms too, and I’ve always found a better alternative somewhere.

  • @flipthetube@lemmy.world
    8•2 years ago

    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.

  • @Rainy1719@lemmy.world
    6•2 years ago

    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.

  • @iBaz@lemmy.world
    5•2 years ago

    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%.

  • masterofn001
    3•2 years ago

    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.

  • wreel
    3•2 years ago

    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.

    • @melechric@lemmy.world
      1•2 years ago

      16+ years. Learned about it from Joel Spolsky’s blog.

      I pretty much agree 100% with your characterization of the decline and your overall experience.

      I also hadn’t realized how dysfunctional Reddit had become or how much I’d tried to adapt to that dysfunction.

  • @El_Azulito@lemmy.world
    2•19 days ago

    I was there since 2010, then I got banned for getting into spats with fascists. Fuck’em all. Reddit sucks. Free speech my ass.

  • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
    1•10 months ago

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

  • @kava@lemmy.world
    1•2 years ago

    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

  • @tekchic@lemmy.world
    1•2 years ago

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

  • @SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world
    1•2 years ago

    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.

  • @krakenx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    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…