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.
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.
same
Same as well.
And my axe
This
Me too!
Same. I just refuse to click on Reddit links. Been on it for atrium 12 years.
Same here. Started on Reddit around 2010. Haven’t been back since Apollo shutdown.
Ah found my spirit animal.
Me too
Same
I haven’t deleted my account yet but I rarely use it. I’m still trying to figure out lemmy but it seems lacking in content.
It took 18 years for Reddit to become what it is…
Maybe 10 or more to break out of nerd circles.
Lemmy’s relative growth is quite impressive, but it will take more than a few months to become a viable alternative.
Having said that, contributing content is the best way to work towards that.
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.
Jolly Rancher
3 shells?
Gargh!
Swamps of Dagobah
My greatest internet achievement: I came up with the name for that story!
Okay, not quite, I came up with calling it “The Dagobah Story”, but close enough! :D
Yeah, I was never a fan of Scrubs, but several years into the show I heard Lazlo Bane’s “Superman” in the show titles and I was like… huh, they got that from MP3.com? Turns out Zach Braff was friends with the band members.
I still have lots of MP3.com stuff in my music archive, including folks who never made the transition to Youtube and pretty much don’t exist on the Internet at all anymore.
Once had a front page rage comic… man I was flying high that day!
Since the Digg migration, when was that, 2010?
Since Reddit’s APIcalypse the content of that site has gone to the drain. It is very clear that power users are no longer posting quality content. I am much more amused by Lemmy than Reddit nowadays, though it’s true that it has that new car smell and the communities will keep growing and reforming from the Reddit ashes.
I don’t think Reddit will disappear, but it’s not the same site it was two months ago, that’s a fact.
12 years here. Mostly as a lucker though. Will try to be more active on Lemmy for sure. Really sad to see what reddit has become.
Used RIF pretty much all the time, it was my go-to app.
Same here. Came over in the digg migration, left when 3rd party apps died.
Does this feel like Reddit did then? Does to me.
I’ll piggyback and say that it feels similar. The biggest difference is not having huge default subs shaping the experience. Lemmy also feels more sparse in the comments, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
I think this is a good point. When I got here, before I started shaping my feed, it was basically rule196, furry porn, tankies and memes.
Actually… A lot like Reddit in the Digg days, minus the tankies.
Less “gems” and rage comics and “Le”, but the same idea, modernized for 2023.
It was those of us (probably in this Lemmy thread, ironically, 15 years-ish later) who outlasted the Le gems of Reddit, and turned it into the modern place.
Then, spez. Fuck spez
I’m fine with a few hundred or two size type comments. Reddit had threads with like 1.4k comments or even double that sometimes. While it’s nice to have that type of size, I am NOT reading all those comments, so the size is irrelevant after a certain threshold point.
Kinda? I was a lot younger then, and this feels way more left wing politically now. Maybe I just got more conservative as I aged, or the internet got more left wing. Or maybe a little of both.
Or, maybe, the world is more liberal than you’ve been led to believe as your circle of influence grew smaller as you got older.
Reality has a liberal bias
Stopping in to drop a semi-ironic “this^”
10 years ago people would write “this^” without a trace of irony on Reddit. So you are kinda ruining the experience by being semi-ironic.
Only semi-ruining tho. Life is about balance ;)
Digg migrant here as well. I’m getting cozy over here now, not looking back.
11-12 years. Can’t exactly remember. But I left the moment my Sync for Reddit stopped working.
Similar, i went to go check reddit to see what my years were, but it’s down at the moment… which is some schadenfreude
This :)
12 years, fuck em. this is my go-to scroll for when I’m bored now. The communities will grow in time.
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.
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.
what was reddit, can someone describe it… was that like napster or something… but yeah, i had a 10 year account or something… now they couldn’t pay me to post to their site…
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.
11 years. Lemmy is the warm blanket, fresh out of the dryer I didn’t know I wanted until now. :-)
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7 years, 1st lemmy post. Hi everybody!
Sadly I still have to visit reddit for various things. Mostly just for niche questions I have for Google that are best answered on Reddit. Which is a lot.
