Pretty familiar. I first learned about the fediverse when I joined Mastodon. I kept it at arms length as just a curiosity until Elon bought Twitter last year, when I switched to Mastodon full time. Since then I joined Pixelfed, Lemmy, Kbin, and checked out Calckey.
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I became aware of the Fediverse a few years ago...After not developing any traction initially...I left. However, I came back and am pouring more effort into decentralized social media. Kbin and Mastodon are amazing for me now, being able to connect to other instances due to federation, I run into so many interesting people!
I've had a mastodon account for a few years but I'm not super active on it, since I'm not a huge fan of microblogging. I learned about lemmy from the reddit alternatives sub, but never gave it much thought. I didn't realize it was part of the fediverse, and didn't really commit to making an account due to the lack of content at the time.
I learned about Kbin during all the recent reddit drama, and decided to give that a try. Now that I've been here for a while and understand federation, I'm really loving it. I'm really excited to see where this goes as the platforms and federation concept starts to mature and gain traction
I had a mastodon account from 2 years ago i never used (i don't like twitter style social media)
mastodon and peertube is alli knew
During my master's degree we had a course where we had to make a small app or data collection thingy using the Mastodon api (or something, can't fully remember). So I was aware it existed, and contemplated joining at a few points. Ultimately though, I just don't really vibe with Twitter-like social media. After Reddit did the thing, I saw Lemmy, which suits me way better. I like it so far. I'm donating a small amount of money to help with keeping the instance running, and I hope this remains a cool place to be for many years to come.
I think I joined Mastodon around September or October 2022? But I hadn't heard of Kbin until a few weeks ago :p
Actually I wasn't familiar with the fediverse at all outside of Mastodon before then
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.