Like a lot of the new users here I too am a former Redditor. I was on Reddit for 15 years, it was my main source of news and information. I didn’t agree with many of the changes to reddit but kept on, till recently when I learned the app I’d been using “Infinity” would no longer work, I guess that was the final straw, but as the title suggests I’m glad. I started looking for other sources of information and entertainment which led to lemmy and the fediverse. I also found other content creators on platforms like patreon, substack, discord, mastodon,that I may not have found otherwise if I was still on Reddit. Just felt like sharing, thank you for reading this, hope you all have a wonderful day.
I was there since… I actually dont remember. This was 2 accounts before my current account. It was back when the slashdot 2 redesign came out and pissed everyone off. I think that was 2011? Currently I have 100k+ karma on my newest reddit account and looked elsewhere the moment I realized they were about to effectively kill the site with this boneheaded decision. I watched Slashdot and digg become irrelevant and were probably witnessing Reddit becoming irrelevant too. It used to be one of the most expansive sites that you could create your own content bubble on and then Reddit basically killed apps and although I rarely used them, the effect of others effectively being driven off the site had a huge impact. Reddit is a husk of what it once was and I have never seen anything even approaching this in all the time I have been there. Unfortunately we are in the zone of pain where Reddit’s ability to generate content collapsed AND alternatives like Lemmy haven’t caught on enough to bridge the gap… yet.