Yes. I did try Mastodon during the Twitter fiasco. But the whole fediverse concept seems a little more suited for specific forums like Reddit

Lemmy is my first

I love the idea, I hope it grows in popularity

I wasn’t aware of that when I first signed up, but a few days in I learned that

Yes it is the first time. I’m liking it. I’ve never tried Mastodon as I was never into Twitter and the two seemed similar.

Not really, I heard of Mastodon after the Twitter shit that happened but never really used it. Until now and then I actually like Lemmy more than Reddit even though I only spent like 20 minutes here. Might be because I only ever used Reddit’s official website and app (so never really touching 3rd party apps)

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

I have been on Mastodon for just over a year and am really enjoying the relaxed and polite atmosphere compared to the Birdsite

I was made aware of Lemmy a week ago and it has been a real eye opener. Prior to that, I had no interest in Reddit at all, mainly because I didn’t understand its purpose

This is my first time with any federated app. My wife figured it out so I figured I should be able to too. Once I understood the jist of it, it was a pretty smooth transition from Reddit.

Technically, I have used mastodon, but for at most 10 minutes. Lemmy is the first fediverse app I use daily.

I remember telling myself:

Wah, the concept of Mastodon is insane! Makes me want to creat an account

Followed by:

Wait it’s an alternative to Twitter, so it’s still inferior to Reddit by how it works

I tried Mastodon and really didn’t care for it. It didn’t translate quite as cleanly into the decentralized structure I felt. If I wanted to look up a famous person I had to know their instance, which felt like a really messy structure. Still, I have hope for it’s future when they clean up a few of the less user friendly elements. Lemmy, I’ve loved. I think forums like this work way better in this decentralized way. Part of that comes from the fact that forums are anonymous anyways, unlike Twitter-esque social media platforms.

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

It’s a first for me. I wanted to join Mastodon but didn’t know what instance to choose and was generally confused about how everything works so I didn’t create an account. With Lemmy it was different since I really wanted to join. So I took my time to figure everything out and it is way less complicated than I initially thought. But I get why it might seem confusing at first, especially subscribing to communities on different servers.

I got Mastodon and liked it well enough but I’m still getting used to it. Lenny, I’ll admit, is super confusing, but I can see it’s potential and I’m really excited to get more involved. In the 10+ years I’ve been on reddit, I think I’ve only posted or commented a handful of times. With Lemmy, I want to make more of an effort to participate.

I had (have) a Mastodon account, but I didn’t put in the time and effort to understand the fediverse, so it’s just been sitting there. Now, with kbin and lemmy I see the potential and I’m off to explore!

I also like the fact that ‘fediverse’ is pronounced very similar to ‘Faits Divers’. Litterally ‘miscellaneous facts’, but is used for smaller news items, anecdotes, tidbits of information, … which seems very appropriate.