I am a former reddit user but calling myself a refugee would overstate the drama and importance of reddit.

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 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 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 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 may qualify. Although I joined Lemmy a couple of weeks ago, I left Reddit around the same time I left Twitter in early 2022.

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’m sure there are. I’ve seen accounts that are 10 years old somehow.

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.