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.
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.
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 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.
13 years here. Spent a few years before that just lurking.
15+ (?) years…
I have not deleted anything but the Reddit app is gone and I have not logged in again since the API thing.
Lemmy is just as good (just a wee bit smaller) and I’ll be investing my (sometimes positive) energy here.
Me. I was either 10 years or very close to it. The loss of Relay was one thing, but the general douchebaggery that followed was the end for me.
Nearly 14 years, right after digg imploded.
Had an 11 year old account.
10 yo for me
I was a 10 year lurker. Actually post a bit on here…
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Haven’t deleted my account but I’ve exclusively been here now. It was a few years old. Want to see Lemmy (and other alternative sites) grow as reddit loses.
Deleted mine a month ago.
I don’t miss it one bit.
I left at the start of the blackout which was 2 weeks under 10 years for me.
16yrs, made an account before the Digg drama, migrated there after.
I’ve not been back since, other than friends linking to stuff there basically
