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 did.
Honestly Lemmy isn’t proving particularly great yet; most of the top posts are from terminally-online agenda posters banging the same identity politics drum I couldn’t escape on Reddit.
I think the main reason is the smaller communities here haven’t reached critical mass yet. I’m not going back to Reddit, though, because I produced a lot of content for them over the years and they repaid me with a terrible user experience and endless adverts.
Hopefully it’ll get better here. If not, maybe something else will pop up. Or I can just find an extra hobby.
Somewhere along the line google decided to pay top YouTube contributors. Somewhere alone the line Reddit decided to alienate the ones who made the most shit.