Asklemmy

this is at least the first time I invested a significant amount of time in it.

But I used a couple of federated services before that are not part of "the fediverse" and I really like the idea. I used XMPP back in the day and I use Matrix from time to time. I just don't have any friends who use it.

I went to Mastodon first, about the same time Twitter officially went into Musk's ownership. I've only looked at Twitter to find fellow refugees from the friends I was following there, but quickly gave up - some people moved over and I was able to follow them, but most went elsewhere from Twitter (mostly Cohost or Itaku) or just remained on Twitter because "that's where the audience is". But I've been happy on the fediverse - I've found that my corner of it has been a lot less about 'drama' and more about sharing personal experiences or news. It's nice!

This whole Reddit thing has been my first look at the 'threadiverse' as some have called it. I'm looking at kbin specifically if I end up setting up an instance for my community, but I'm all in on this decentralised social media now, and I really want it to win out.

Rest in peace niu.moe, you shall be missed.

Been using Matrix for the past year now, so I'm familiar with the concept of federated platforms. Lemmy is just a natural next step to replace Reddit. =)

Lemmy is not my first time on the fediverse, nor is this my first time on Lemmy. I got my start with Mastodon a few years ago and slowly lost interest. A few months ago I found out about CalcKey and joined an instance of that. Now with the reddit situation I have ended up also joining the Lemmy server run by the same people who run the CalcKey instance I'm on (I've got the same username on both CalcKey and here on Lemmy)

No, but I only start using #fediverse at the end of last year and not until late february I actively posting there. This is my first time using lemmy though, I end up making new account because from my experience, it is better using different account for different segment of fediverse.

My first experience with the Fediverse was Mastodon, and my second was PeerTube. Having interconnectedness between the different platforms, like Mastodon and Lemmy, is interesting, but also a little confusing with how it all works, so I just use the individual platforms directly instead.

Yes. To put to simple terms, the Reddit refugees moved from "the Reddit" to "a reddit that also interacts with other reddits". You can consider the whole fediverse as a "superreddit"

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

First time for me but I actually knew about it since a bunch of people moved from Twitter to Mastodon.

Taking some getting used to but it reminds me of very old school Reddit in a lot of ways. Feels good so far.

Just joined today, and definitely first experience. So far, it SEEMS pretty straightforward. Kinda waiting for the gotcha that trips me up.

This is my first Fediverse, unless XMPP counts, but I never used that across multiple instances.

I curious to see what happens with "duplicate" communities across instance, for example there are a number of "3D Printing" communities. Will one eventually become dominant and the others die off? Or what happens when the admins of one server decide not to continue running it? Will there be a way to migrate accounts and communities between servers?

I used Mastodon, but ultimately lost interest. It's been a long time since I've visited Twitter on a regular basis, and there is really no gap for Mastodon to exist in my personal life.

Friendica was actually the first time I was exposed to the Fediverse like a decade ago but I didn't use it because what are friends. Back then I still had a Facebook lol. It wasn't until recently that I officially joined Mastodon first. I honestly wish I hadn't waited as long as I did (same with using Linux). But now, I'm not looking back.