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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Welcome here!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

16y Redditor here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

13 years, bye. Fuck spez

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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%.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm loosely friendly with Lawrence from Sync. Same boat here

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a simple man. I see Lebowski references, i upvote

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Once had a front page rage comic... man I was flying high that day!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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