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by barclay 3442 days ago
I dunno. I'm part of the 10 year club (/u/barclay is my main account). I've modded in the past. However outside of a couple of select subs i still casually participate in (watches and bikes) the draw just isn't there for me anymore.

I think it's more like slashdot. I didn't leave slashdot for reddit or HN. I just left. It got bad. I'm thinking the same thing is about to happen for me on reddit as well.
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derefr 3442 days ago
The interesting difference, to me, is that Reddit isn't one community (like Slashdot) but rather more of a hosting service for communities, like Discourse or Slack (or Usenet or IRC.)

At some point, I might be following a whole different set of subreddits than I am today, as old ones die/jump the shark and I discover new ones. But I don't see what would specifically push me to leave the entire site, as long as there are individual active communities there I'm interested in—any more than I would choose to categorically stop visiting blogs hosted on Wordpress.com or categorically choose to never read a post on a phpBB forum again.

Of course, I might leave the whole site anyway, but not because of a push; rather because activity on the whole might drop off in favour of something else, and all those communities I like might migrate away (like many of the chatrooms I visit have migrated from IRC to Slack), leaving a hollow shell of a site that's still, in theory, a host for many communities I enjoy—but not their canonical home, just a secondary one. At that point, there'd be no reason to visit.

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Nition 3442 days ago
I think it'd be really interesting to set up a more traditional forum system (like Discourse), but in a way where anyone can create a subforum and moderate it. Like Reddit but allowing for a lot more long-term discussion on a topic.
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SomeStupidPoint 3442 days ago
None of my accounts from then still exist, but I'm coming up on 10 years of reddit.

It went from me reading a dozen or so subreddits actively to that place I find free amateur porn.

Maybe I just grew up, but I also think a lot of subreddits declined, particularly larger ones.

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