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.
I was a reddit user for around 7 years, deleted my account once 1 year ago (due to becoming privacy conscious) and tried to minimize my use of it, with occasional relapses.
I was mostly using reddit via libreddit frontend as I would mostly lurk and rarely comment, and because of the loading speed of the website (no need to load and run tons of javascript code every time), but since the API changes I can probably only look at 1 subreddit and around 3 posts before reaching the rate limit. Needless to say, this killed my main way to interact with the platform and seeing that lemmy got a lot more people now, I made an account here yesterday.