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How familiar were you with the Fediverse before coming here? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Kara@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I thought it was stupid. I misunderstood how it works and I thought it was overcomplicating the idea of decentralised instances

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I was vaugly aware of Mastadon and the federation idea. Thought it was a cool idea but I just hate the Twitter format so never thought more of it.

[–] FreeBooteR69@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I joined the metaverse via mastodon four years ago and lemmy 2 years. Guess that makes me a fucking hipster, lol. Though i'll admit since the reddit fiasco i dumped reddit completely and made /kbin my home and been using the fediverse quite a lot more.

[–] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Duchess@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] fennario@wizanons.dev 0 points 1 year ago

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.