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.

      • TheHighRoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • TheHighRoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Another thing is I feel like I’m trying harder to contribute positively; I want Lemmy to succeed so that (hopefully) we can avoid the enshitification that inevitably plagues the commercialized platforms.

        • Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          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

        • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • Blamemeta@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • FreeloadingSponger@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        There’s similarities, but it’s a little more empty, and it’s a little too reposty from other sites still. reddit then felt a bit more like the place, this isn’t that yet.

    • vanontom@geddit.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same boat. I remember being a big fan of Digg (and Kevin Rose), and looking down upon “new” copycat… Reddit. Then they completely changed (removed voting?) almost overnight, and so I gave Reddit a chance. Loved it (and later Sync) and used almost daily! Until… well, fuck Steve Huffman, we all know what happened. Hello Lemmy.

      I have not deleted account or comments yet, but logged out everywhere, try to never visit, and will never use the (ad-infested) app. Lemmy community (and Liftoff) has been great, just needs to keep growing with good people.