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.
Was there well over a decade, started several different communities and helped do the tech stuff for several others when they started, made tools for communities and various bots that work for Reddit - only been back to check for messages and move my stuff over to here (on dedicated accounts hosted on more niche communities, probably going to start my own instance for my main project when I’ve written the bots and backend)
I really think that the people who care about communities and are willing to make the effort to help them grow are the main people who’ve left Reddit, they’re the ones Reddit hurt the most and they’re the ones actually engaged enough to put the effort to change in while it’s still a bit messy - it’s our job to make this place great, to make tools that improve it and new things to work with it