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Technically 3 years ago when hexbear was launched.

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

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.

I found it via lurking Reddit during the API protests.

I joined Mastodon a few years ago, mostly out of interest in the concept. I never did much with Twitter, so I didn’t do much with Mastodon either, but I liked the idea.

I’ve been a heavy user of reddit for more than decade. During the runup to the recent blackout I was reading everything I could find about alternatives. I created several Fediverse accounts during that time and when the blackout started I quit using reddit and never went back. That gave me the incentive to start really using Lemmy and kbin, which have been a pleasant surprise.

mental outlaw got me on mastodon and i found peertube randomly (puffy.tube instance) my peertube videos are still unavailable since i think puffytube doesn’t really operate i probably will check and Reddit api incident got me to go to fling up, lemmy and kbin

July 2021 on Mastodon. I can’t remember why, probably because it sounded like an interesting concept. Later I tried to use lemmy a few months before the reddit stuff started, but there was not enough content, so I forgot about it until a few months ago.

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.

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 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.

This account technically, but I was interacting more on mastodon in the early days.

About a month ago on Lemmy.

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