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.

  • @[email protected]
    23•11 months ago

    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.

    • @DadVolante
      3•11 months ago

      13 years, but I didn’t come from Digg. My pal in college showed it to me.

      I noticed one day that the entire front page was imgur links. It was a steady decline.

      It was still okay when I nuked my account, but I wanted to spend less time on social media, anyway.

      I like Lemmy well enough, but I don’t spend as much time on it as I did reddit/Facebook.

      Dropped both. Pop in to the fediverse a couple times a day on my phone and pop out.

      Learning Linux. Not missing a lot of my old spots like I thought I would.

    • @[email protected]
      2•11 months ago

      That’d put me at 15+ years prolly. I remember how salty people were about the digg refugees.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•10 months ago

      I deleted all my comments on Reddit, all of my posts, and then toasted my user account

      Are you sure about that? There were some reported cases of Reddit bringing back the content. They only listen to GDPR complaints (or that one Californian equivalent).

      • @[email protected]
        2•10 months ago

        Son-of-a-bitch. I just searched with Google… and almost ALL my old comments are back. The user attribution is [deleted], but almost all the content of 13 or 14 years of comments has been restored. In a few cases, a top-level comment has not been restored, but everywhere in sub-comment conversations, I see my old content… content I know I explicitly deleted.

        So, even though I explicitly deleted my contributions, they ignored and restored it. What an asshole move by the Reddit admins. And of course, now that my account has been deleted there’s no way to follow up and re-remove all my contributions.

        I wonder. Considering that the vast majority of my comments on Reddit were done while I lived in Europe if I can use GPRD and insist they remove it all.