Where and when did you start your fediverse journey?

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.

Last November, Seattle Bike Blog posted about a "mostly Seattle-based transit-loving" Mastodon server (social.ridetrans.it), and it sounded great to me (and still is!). But coming to Lemmy around the Reddit blackout (I was a RIF user for probably 10+ years) was what really got me interested in the fediverse as a whole.

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 nuked my Reddit when spez decided to be a clown and moved to Lemmy.

Technically 3 years ago when hexbear was launched.

Late June of this year, when RIF was shut down.

06/16/2023 on sh.itjust.works and 06/17/2023 here on SDF. Since I didn't yet know what Lemmy was, I used same username I have on sdf.org UNIX system. And now I am stuck with it.

I joined Lemmy when Boost for reddit got paywalled.

Only like a week ago when we finally federated, it's been kinda wild ngl

I was a reddit refugee from the whole spez thing. Lemmy being a potentially viable alternative kept me around through the growing pains.

I like writing long, informative comments on occasion, and rather than let reddit own them, I'd rather we all own them. That's all.

I tried out Mastodon once, never really got into it. Fast forward to Twitter's acquisition, shit hit the fan, you know the story, but I wasn't really convinced until some of the decisions lately. Tried out Mastodon again, and whilst it was nice, it wasn't really for me. I figured I'd try looking for another instance, and I ended up landing myself on Kbin as it has Lemmy support for topical discussions, as well as microblogging capabilities for who I keep track of on Mastodon. I don't post that actively, but it's been great so far!

Lemmy on June 9th. The day before reddit died. There were 1.21k users on this instance back then. All of Lemmy looked like it was less than around 5-6k users total, and most were not active. There were less than a dozen communities I would call active, on all major instances combined. Beehaw and .ml were the biggest, but that is not saying much at the time. Kbin was totally defederated from everyone back then.

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.

I technically started with Lemmy pretty early, long before any of the Reddit exit stuff, but it was hyper focused on politics still and I feel like spending that much time talking politics online is extremely unhealthy. I was really only interested in a hobby forum with the Reddit format that didn't have the suffocating debate bro culture.

I started lurking since the Reddit exit stuff to see if it would grow enough to support other topics. It has, but I'm not certain if I'll stay. Unsurprisingly an influx in Redditors has made this place culturally a lot more like Reddit, for the worse.

I also dabbled in Mastodon years ago but I've never particularly liked the Twitter format so a federated clone didn't really gel with me.

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: @chuso

I found it via lurking Reddit during the API protests.

came onto Lemmy during the rexit, hopped around a few instances, then moved to kbin after a few days.

My lemmy.ml account is now over 3 years old.

I had forgotten about it when all this reddit stuff started, and thought it wasn't letting me sign up (there's a bug that existing usernames just make it sit and spin instead of letting you know it's taken)

... I just checked and my Mastodon account is nearly 5 years old. I'd guess my Matrix is around there also.

mental outlaw got me on mastodon and i found peertube randomly (puffy.tube instance) my peertube videos are still unavailable since i think puffytube doesn't really operate i probably will check and Reddit api incident got me to go to fling up, lemmy and kbin

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

I joined mastodon in 2020 when I started looking into open source software and everything that goes with it.

I joined kbin on 10 June. I thought it was stupid to have a two-day protest and I figured I’d need something to replace reddit. Then I moved to lemmy on 23 June because it supported apps, after that on 4 July I moved to my current instance because .ml was having problems and that’s where I am now

I started earlier this year with mastodon, not like I migrated from Twitter or something, never felt the need to use micro blogging service

I started with mastodon in 2018 and am currently active in lemmy. I use mastodon as one would've Twitter, but mostly for reading posts and news.

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.

I stopped using Reddit when Apollo stopped working. I joined Lemmy.world on July 4th and moved to my current instance about a month after due to .world being down a lot. I'm happy to be here and watch Lemmy grow and improve.

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 a few years ago, mostly out of interest in the concept. I never did much with Twitter, so I didn't do much with Mastodon either, but I liked the idea.

I've been a heavy user of reddit for more than decade. During the runup to the recent blackout I was reading everything I could find about alternatives. I created several Fediverse accounts during that time and when the blackout started I quit using reddit and never went back. That gave me the incentive to start really using Lemmy and kbin, which have been a pleasant surprise.

About a month ago on Lemmy.

I played around with Friendica and Mastadon years ago, then forgot about them until reddit enshittified this year.

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.

This account technically, but I was interacting more on mastodon in the early days.

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.