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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had some vague notion of what it was, but hadn't really wrapped my head around it. I had a Mastodon account, but that whole style of posting has never really appealed to me, so I didn't invest any effort into figuring it out.

In the wake of the API thing, I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do about Reddit. I used RIF, so it was going to affect me, and there's no way I'd ever use Reddit's inexcusably shitty excuse for an app, so I was going to have to figure something out, but there are always alternatives for people who are willing to look for them, so I wasn't all that concerned.

But then spez did that petulant and bitchy AMA and I realized that it was probably time to look for a new forum, because that was a pretty clear signal that their intention was to make things much, much shittier and fuck you if you don't like it. So I started poking around and found a mention of kbin/lemmy and came to check it out.

I was just curious to see what it was about, and assumed that at most, I'd just bookmark it and keep looking. But somewhere along the way, it suddenly clicked and I understood what the fediverse was really all about, and I just... stayed. I didnt make a conscious decision to leave Reddit - I just never went back, because I have no reason to.