Another 15 year veteran of Reddit. Same path, newsgroups, Digg, then Reddit. I don’t have quite as much karma but I never did give much credence to virtual recognition, since it doesn’t mean much in the real world. Reddit was already getting too big and too moderated for me but it did have some niche subs that would be hard to find elsewhere. I bailed on Facebook years ago and Twitter just recently, still working on getting out of the Redditverse though.