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.
Pretty similar to you: Had heard about Mastodon when Twitter started imploding and made an account over there. But didn’t really get it and I never really used Twitter anyways so I wasn’t too interested in figuring it out.
Then when the APIpocalylse kicked off I came and checked out Lemmy and learned more about the Fediverse. When I found the Memmy app and more people started coming here it really felt like this was taking off, and I’m excited to see that momentum continuing. I haven’t opened Reddit since Apollo died, and this is now filling that void in my online diet.
Same here for me, when Apollo declared it would stop support I completely dropped reddit and started on Lemmy. Initially the web app for Lemmy was a bit rough for me to use but then I found Memmy and have been here since!
Personally I was vaguely aware of Mastodon when it first started being talked about as a Twitter competitor. But I didn’t really “get it”, I thought it was Twitter with added email functionality or something.
Wasn’t until spez shattered reddits remaining anti-troll defenses that I started actually doing some research, and finding out Mastodon actually does not have email functionality. Something completely different from that, actually.
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.
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 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.
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.
I’ve used Mastodon for a moment before and it was plagued with porn. I also wasn’t a fan of microblogging so I dropped it pretty fast. I prefer forum/board style media platforms.
I didn’t know anything about it, and I still pretty much don’t know anything about it. In my super hazy interpretation, it sounds like it pretty much means there are a bunch of spaces that work standalone but it’s possible to access one from another without having to sign up or anything to the other. Or something. I’ll probably look into it someday but for now I’m just happy to have it.
Zero! Zero familiarity! When I heard about Lemmy during the Great Reddit Migration of 2023 I was like “What a stupid name. I should code my own Reddit and get rich. The time is now!”. But then I realized I don’t want to code Reddit after writing code for 6-10 hours a day at work, and I checked Lemmy out. Then I learned about the Fediverse. Then I was highly impressed and gave many oohs and aaahs. Now I’m off Reddit completely (except for CenturyClub from my desktop like twice a week for 10 minutes) and this is my home. Yay!
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