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I tried Mastodon 4 or 5 years ago when Twitter started banning a bunch of leftists. I dug up that account when Muck bought Twitter and there’d be interesting content from the Twitter refugees.
I signed up for Lemmy during the reddit fiasco in June and now I use Lemmy so much more than I use Mastodon
Made the switch as soon as sync shut down on reddit. Then, tried my best to figure this place out so I had a decent head start when sync reopened for lemmy! Been here ever since.
I joined Mastodon when Musk took over Twitter. That didn’t really work out. So I stuck to Reddit. Then spez started up with the API nonsense, and I kept seeing stuff about Lemmy. Checked it out, and here I am.
This is exactly how I came to the fediverse too!
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July 2021 on Mastodon. I can’t remember why, probably because it sounded like an interesting concept. Later I tried to use lemmy a few months before the reddit stuff started, but there was not enough content, so I forgot about it until a few months ago.
I joined after the shitstorm that Reddit made the community go trough. It’s a worse website now because of the changes to the API where they now take money for using it. They now have to charge the user for using their apps. Basically making it easy for me to stop using reddit entirely.
Tip for you guys that still want to use an app but don’t know about it: geddit is a free app that scrape RSS to let you browse reddit. I’ve used it more and more to get used to it. It’s pretty good but since it doesn’t use rhe API you can’t comment or bookmark stuff. You can however watch NSFW stuff but it doesn’t work that well compared to how Relay for instance did it back when apps where allowed to show NSFW content…
I like how it cheekily plays off the name gedit.
I created my account in Status.net (now GNU Social) around 2009 and later it was switched to pump.io: https://identi.ca/chuso
And Diaspora* in 2010: https://joindiaspora.com/people/4d0aa88b2c174330380001db
Like others, with not a lot success with those early projects until I joined Mastodon in 2017: @chusoAbout a month ago on Lemmy.
I joined mastodon in 2020 when I started looking into open source software and everything that goes with it.
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Same here. Never looked back. Lemmy + mastodon are both amazing and I love that there are no ads or manipulative algorithms.
Now testing pixelfed.
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came onto Lemmy during the rexit, hopped around a few instances, then moved to kbin after a few days.
I started on a Mastodon instance I can’t remember in 2016/17, never used it. Don’t remember the account details.
Dec '22, I started on furry.engineer and actually use it.
Like some of us, a few weeks before the end of Apollo on Reddit. Been enjoying the ride so far, with its ups and downs.
Late June of this year, when RIF was shut down.
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culturally a lot more like Reddit, for the worse.
I have to agree with you… but, the good thing is is that we don’t have karma farming!
In 2019 (or was it 2018?), i joined Mastodon within a now presumably defunct instance. I noted that the community was absolutely toxic and neurotic, in contrast to Twitter. And that says a lot. Cliquish bullshit. I deleted my accounts. Perhaps now it’s better…
Recently i joined lemmy, bcs on reddit saying that you don’t think fomenting a war is a good thing gets you permabanned. Reddit used to be a relatively free and welcoming place, with different opinions and a good degree of tolerance. Now it’s just neo-liberals ghouls and bleeding hearts liberals.
