Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
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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Joined in 2011, used it pretty much everyday for 12 years. Probably an average of 3+ hours per day, though I'd constantly find myself closing the app or website down just to open it back up 5 minutes later. Since the app closed down and I don't really use my desktop anymore I've just stopped using it. I will still Google questions from reddit occasionally if I can't find good answers elsewhere, but in the past 2 months I've maybe visited the site 10 times, and only for specific questions, never to browse the front page. I'd say it's been good for me overall and, I've cut down from like 3-4 hours a day on reddit to maybe an hour a day between here and lemmy.
I hoped to replace reddit with reading and while it hasn't been completely successful I have been getting like 3 hours of reading per week, which is a lot better than the like 30 minutes a week (maybe) I used to get. I also feel my attention span has gotten better. With less stuff to see I tend to actually read the majority/all of an article instead of just the headline or skimming the first few paragraphs.