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.

Technically 3 years ago when hexbear was launched.

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.

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

I joined Lemmy when Boost for reddit got paywalled.

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

I found it via lurking Reddit during the API protests.

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

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.

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

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

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