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.
7 years for me. But that’s still substantial.
Also 7 years and did quite some posting and commenting, all of those are now overwritten/edited with a protest message.
Good! I’ll be honest, I was too weak to do that, I have a strong nostalgic streak in me, and I know I’ll want to look back at my content one day.
No shame in that, I was also struggling with the idea of losing that history and especially felt bad about the “lost knowledge for the community” part. It’s okay not to overwrite it all in my opinion, I just decided to do so.