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.
16 years? I stopped participating on large subreddits about a decade or so ago when the highest upvoted comment I made received near 1000 upvotes. It was the most non-useful non-helpful throwaway comment ever. I realized at that point how stupid reddit was and only participated in small subreddits for a short time but gave up commenting all together as it was worthless. Left when RIF stopped working.
8 year redditor, longtime RiF user here. It really did hurt seeing that app go.
My highest voted comment of all time got 11.4K upvotes. It was a comment on a meme thread with a blockquote of some text from the meme.
My comment consisted of one word: “gold”.