Asklemmy

I've tried Mastodon briefly years before but I just couldn't find a reason to stay. No meaningful community on the instance I tried. It kind of put me off the Fediverse for very long because why bother when all the 10 people joining will be the same kind of internet dweller? Lemmy nowadays seems to be filling up fast with Reddit people paving the way for further migration. I'm hopeful for it to thrive now. Instance load issues are a problem and everyone making their communities on lemmy.ml or beehaw.org is an issue and they should be more spread to other lemmy instances, after all we can participate on all of them as long as we federate.

Not my first. I also am on Mastodon over at https://infosec.exchange. I far prefer using the Fediverse versions of services, but without critical mass, you can't move away easily imo.

Joined Lemmy last week but moved to kbin, I've been on the Fediverse for a few years now. First joined on Mastodon, but now I actively use Calckey, Akkoma, and am a mod on a Peertube instance. As for what I thought of Lemmy, I liked it, but I was more curious about kbin as I'd heard about it for a while

yeah, i did go to mastodon a while ago, but not my cup of tea

My first fediverse app is mastodon

No. Sometimes i use mastadon.

I tried friendica years ago as an alternative to Facebook, back when Facebook was still for connecting with friends and family. But since none of my friends were interested in it, I quickly lost interest myself.

I checked out Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter, even though I never actively used Twitter. I don't use it as social media, I use it for news aggregation.

Lemmy is now the first Fediverse software I actively use and I really like it so far.

Yeah, this is my first. So far, it's been interesting. I don't understand the link between all of the other systems though (Mastodon, Kbin, etc).

No, I self host my own personal Mastodon instance. Opted for an account to use lemmy, let someone else worry about the backend stuff for once lol. So far I think Lemmy is some badass tech with tons of potential, even if it is still quite young as a thing.

Yes

Yea first time. Never heard of it. I like it so far. There little stuff that needs to be ironed out, but it's better than serviceable so far and I'm quite enjoying it. Figuring it out.

I've been on Matrix and Mastodon for a number of years, but I'm new to Lemmy. Matrix is already better than competitors like Discord, in my opinion. It has a healthy pool of users including several major tech organizations.

I've never been too active on Mastodon for the same reason I never got into Twitter. I just don't enjoy "microblogging," and prefer mediums that are more oriented towards actual conversation. Lemmy does an excellent job in that respect.

I tried Diaspora back in the day when it launched. I'm not sure if that counts or not.

Yes, it is my first time, no, I did not know that and created a Mastodon account separately once I heard of it.

What exactly is "fediverse" anyway?

I use Element (Matrix) to talk to friends and family. I really enjoy the Fediverse, it feels like we're going back to the user owned internet.

I've had a masto and pixelfed for ages. Was looking for an excuse to choose Lemmy over Reddit and, well, one came up.

I tried mastodon, but I hated it. So far I'm liking this more.

Yes it is! Exciting to discover it.

I was never really interested in twitter or similar services, so I pass on Mastodon.

Nope.

I have used federated tools like identi.ca, pump.io and diaspora and I've also have a mastodon account, however I almost never posted to these and I rarely log in and follow everyone. I have accounts because I work closely with federation and want federated social media to succeed but I don't like the twitter format. I have friends which use them but it's just a flood of posts from friends and I love my friends, but they have interests and hobbies which I don't share and I have lots of interests and hobbies they don't share.

I've always enjoyed the interest specific communities much better, I generally don't care who is saying things, I care about what they say and if it's interesting or informative. I love the model of you go to places which are interesting and everyone upvotes and curates a collection of interesting links and posts and then discusses them. I am really glad we now have that for the fediverse. I knew lemmy existed, but never signed up for it until the reddit shenanigans started because, at the end of the day it's social and it needs users to be interesting, now reddit has given lemmy users and for that I'm grateful :)

Yep. No idea what I’m doing but I’m happy be involved and it’s fun to learn new things :)

First Fediverse! Really liking the experience so far (feels kinda like Reddit-lite) and people are very welcoming. Only fear right now would be in the long run. From what I understand if your main instance shuts down you’d have to start from scratch and re-sign up/sub to all your communities?

It's my first time, yeah. I'd never heard of the Fediverse at all until now.

I tried out mastodon once, but since I really didn’t spend much time on twitter in the first place, I really didn’t use it at all. But apart from that short endeavor, this is my first time.

no, I have been on Akkoma (a Mastodon alternative) since October 2022. Definitely a bit more invested here though. Edit: if you'd like to follow me on Mastodon/Akkoma/microblogging fediverse, it's knova@dartboard.social - sign ups also welcome on dartboard.social.

I switched to Mastodon a while back, but Lemmy seemed really empty until recently.

I have my own matrix instance, which I guess is fediverse since I have federation enabled and working. Lemmy will be used a lot more though.

I’ve created accounts on Mastodon, kbin, Lemmy and tildes, all within the past two days or so, and so far Lemmy’s my jimjam, with kbin a very close second.

I did try out Mastodon for a while but that never caught on for me. This seems way better. The way Reddit was setup with communities is way more alluring than mastodon is. Amd Lemmy atm is a cleaner, smoother, and smaller version for me of reddit.

I've used Mastodon, Calckey, Pixelfed and Bookwyrm and found all of them to be pretty cool. So far I've liked Lemmy and ever since I found out about the frdiverse I've found it's interconnection of so many platforms to be helpful