Before the whole Reddit migration I was passively aware of the Fediverse, I thought I somewhat grasped the concept, and had created a Mastodon account, but never really used it.
But once the migration started, I decided to try out Kbin, and really liked it, and even started to use Mastodon more often.
To be honest, I thought it was stupid. I misunderstood how it works and I thought it was overcomplicating the idea of decentralised instances
Ah, that’s fair. Do you think you’ve changed your mind on it, or do you believe that it’s sort of a con of these platforms?
I’ve changed my mind, but I do think that the concept is somewhat difficult to grasp
People seem to understand when you think about it like email.
First thought it sounded like a scam because people were talking about it the same way people talked about crypto. Looked into it enough after the reddit api shenanigans that I wanted to make a lemmy account and I’m still learning new things about it.
It’s like reddit, but on the blockchain! /s
I had a mastodon account from 2 years ago i never used (i don’t like twitter style social media)
I setup a Mastodon instance at leftist.network back in 2020, when I was worried that the COVID/Trump situation was going to quickly transition into something more serious. Besides Jan 6th that didn’t happen, but hey, it was a cool domain for people to join when Twitter started tanking!
But the thing is, I never really used Twitter. My social media was Facebook and reddit. Both of them for the discussion groups (Facebook isn’t boring if all your friends are gay communists). Mastodon didn’t quite scratch the itch, mostly because there’s nothing like Facebook groups or subreddits. I had looked at Lemmy before, but there wasn’t a big enough user base to really move over.
I looked up kbin and lemmy with the reddit diaspora, and they fit both social media fixes. Most communities are on Lemmy, but I like kbin’s interface more. I just want kbin to add the feature to hide upvoted posts.
I’m a little dismayed that more and more stuff is moving to Discord though. I was an IRC regular back in the day, but I could never quite deal with Discord’s 24/7 conversation to try to keep up with.
Not at all familiar. It was Reddit or other social media but never knew anything about Lemmy until recently.
I had gotten so ‘meh’ with Twitter that by the time Mastodon came around, I just wasn’t interested and would rather just quit Twitter altogether.
Then, a couple weeks ago some buddies on a Discord were talking about Lemmy, so I decided to look into it. And so here I am.
I had no idea it existed before the API changes were announced.
For the last year or so I’ve been using a private PeerTube instance I run to host videos my kids like to make and share with their friends/family. It isn’t federated for privacy reasons.
Heard about Diaspora around 2010s. Knew Mastodon probably before 2022 (when there were only two Polish instances, 101010.pl and a left-wing one, remade later into more mainstream pol.social), @Vivaldi brought me here as they integrated Mastodon with their web browser. However, @74 is actually my first fedi account. Learnt about /kbin and made an account there in 2023, when it consisted only of 2 Polish servers, karab.in (flagship) and another one. My account here, on kbin.social exists since 8 of May 2023.
i’d used mastodon.social briefly after the tumblr porn ban but then switched back when it turned out to be not that big a deal. not to mention i really didn’t understand the concept of different servers or how federating/defederating worked. i floundered for a couple of days before i came across my current setup. calckey account which i look at rarely and an account on a small lemmy server for stability purposes.
Had a Mastodon account years ago (whenever the radical.town instance was a thing). But I never used it because I never used Twitter. Made an account on an instance for music and that I’ll actually use here recently with the Twitter stuff. Then joined kbin and Lemmy to check them out shortly after with everyone else during all the commotion.
I had a general idea of the Fediverse, how it worked, and some of the platforms on it (Friendica, etc), but never really got into it til earlier this year.
Same here except that I created a lemmy.ml account. I had an account on a mastodon server which doesnt exist anymore but I never really used it. But now I still dont use mastodon but Instead of being reddit addicted I am now Lemmy addicted.
Generally its impossible to be reddit addicted because I always use Open Source apps for Social Media which now will cost me 2 million dollars I heard.
I started a Mastodon server and had been running that for about 5-6 months before joining a Lemmy server. I knew about other ActivityPub platforms, but hadn’t felt the need to join until then.
Knew nothing, still don’t know a lot and had a hell of a time signing up but it seems to be getting better and growing. I’m trying to be more active to help out with growth but I’m not that guy.
I joined Mastodon a couple of times in 2018 but could never make it stick. Coincidentally rejoined last year just before the Twitter implosion, and maybe it was all the new people I was able to start using it in a way that made sense to me and rather enjoyed it, despite not using Twitter.
As soon as the writing was on the wall about the API changes, I created an account on Lemmy and here. That was end of May and the big migration happened end of June.
So tl;dr, I’ve been aware of it since 2018, but didn’t actually start using it until end of 2022.
