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

Technically 3 years ago when hexbear was launched.

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

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

About a month ago on Lemmy.

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

I joined Lemmy when Boost for reddit got paywalled.

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 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

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

Lemmy on June 9th. The day before reddit died. There were 1.21k users on this instance back then. All of Lemmy look 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.

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.