Asklemmy

I think I first heard of the fediverse from the Shonalika video on Mastodon, which I would've seen in 2020. I think I would've had some experience browsing Peertube without an account prior to signing up to Kbin, too. But Kbin is my first time having an actual fediverse account. It's pretty cool!

I had never heard of the fedivedae before, but now I have a Lemmy and kbin acct, and definatley enjoy both. Sometimes I still feel I do not fully grasp it but I get the gist of it enough to use it without issue.

I had a mastodon account from 2 years ago i never used (i don't like twitter style social media)

I never heard of the fediverse until people were looking for Reddit alternatives.

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.

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.

Lurked Calckey for a bit , i was fan of Freeplay's userstyles

But decided to go for kbin bc it's not limited to redditlike functions , promising for interacting with rest of 'verse all under one account

freedombox and some stuff I vaguel remember about an open source social media

I had a Mastodon account but didn't really understand how it all worked, I thought it was only for Twitter like applications. I really like the concepts of self hosting stuff so when the Reddit strike happened and I found out what Lemmy was, I decided to try it out and have been learning along the way.

I had used mastodon, akkoma and peertube before learning about Lenny when the Reddit stuff happened. I have never had an account on twitter and rarely used my Reddit account.

I started a Mastodon server and had been running that for about 5-6 months before joining a Lemmy server. I knew about other ActivityPub platforms, but hadn’t felt the need to join until then.

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.

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.