Or was never on Reddit at all? Just curious.
I never really used Reddit to begin with so I wouldn’t call myself a Reddit refugee. I’ve mostly been drifting through the internet since the decline of dedicated forums.
I may qualify. Although I joined Lemmy a couple of weeks ago, I left Reddit around the same time I left Twitter in early 2022.
I am a former reddit user but calling myself a refugee would overstate the drama and importance of reddit.
Rexxiteer?
I’m sure there are. I’ve seen accounts that are 10 years old somehow.
On a platform that’s only existed since 2019?
I don’t believe him either, but Instance owners can fuck with the database manually.
It’s not out of the realm of possibility.
Oh, I don’t think that value is believable (hence the ‘somehow’), but, I don’t know how you’d get that value so I’m basically saying ‘anything is possible apparently’.
I’m not entirely sure how they’d have that account age either, but it is worth noting that the Fediverse itself (or something in this vein) is much older than either Lemmy or Mastodon (to address @animist@lemmy.one’s point), so even setting aside database futzing it may not be impossible.
One of the older forms of this that I’m aware of (besides Usenet, which is running on different tech), is OStatus & GNU Social, which interestingly enough may be hitting that 10/11 year mark (or older, wiki page on the subject is unclear on when it originated).
came here because I saw lemmy mentioned on reddit (much as how reddit was mentioned on digg before it collapsed), but I wouldn’t consider myself a “refugee”.
sort of fell out of love with reddit the last few years but there weren’t any other viable alternatives.
I had a Reddit account for all of ten minutes, many years ago. Does it count?
Actually this is my second try to join the Threadiverse, too, except this time it might just stick for a change. Coming from the Fediverse side, where I’ve been since 2008 or 2009. Caught the tail end of Usenet, too, but to me forums are what’s worth preserving and/or reviving here.
I haven’t used reddit in around 7-8 years but I had a super old account (joining reddit before it even had subreddits, etc) with some like like 350k karma.
So I’m not a refugee, but an expat
I’m a refugee but I’ve been keeping an eye on lemmy and other alternatives since sometime last year. I was trying to replace reddit for a while and was really hoping a few alternatives would actually become active after the api change lol which worked out.
I wouldn’t refer to myself as a “Reddit Refugee,” but I did come over to the Fediverse during the Great #RedditMigration. I didn’t use any of the third party apps and wasn’t really affected by it (though I didn’t agree with it either and think it’s total BS). But I was looking for a change. So I guess that makes me a bandwagon migrant? I don’t know.
Doesn’t really matter though. I’m here and I don’t give two shits about Reddit anymore.
I wasn’t a Reddit poweruser by the time the fallout due to the whole API stuff happened, since I had issues with a lot of things there. I was looking for alternatives, and kbin/Lemmy is almost exactly what I was looking for.
I only browsed reddit through libreddit. I don’t use social media at all, but told myself of why not giving the fediverse a shot, it can be the healthy social media. Though I’m still trying to find a good microblogging instance (mastodon, pleroma, misskey, akkoma, soapbox etc…). It’s harder for me to get in microblogging unlike a forum website like lemmy.
