For how long have you been on the #Fediverse?

[ypsilenna@mastodon.green]

@jwildeboer My first account is from 2017

[coleenwalter@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer I’m not just new to the Fediverse but I’m new to social media. I avoided signing up for a social media account until February 2026. Curiosity got to me. I chose Mastodon because I read “The Internet Con” by Cory Doctorow.

[kyonshi@dice.camp]

@jwildeboer I was part of the great Twitter migration of '22. Those were heady days when everything seemed possible.

[diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt]

@jwildeboer 2018 on mastodon.social, then I moved to tech.lgbt in 2020.

[nomdeb@mstdn.social]

@jwildeboer I am guessing a good number of the 3-5 years group was the twitter melt down time frame. I selected that. But actually I had signed up for diaspora long before. But I didn’t really use it. So it probably doesn’t count properly.

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@jwildeboer I was going to reply 3-5 then realised that @Floppy created this instance way before the pandemic which meant that it had to be more than 5 years ago.

[numodular@c.im]

@jwildeboer Off and on for years

[floppy@mastodon.me.uk]

@brunogirin @jwildeboer this instance went online in 2017, though very few people used it until John Mastodon day.

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@Floppy @jwildeboer Yes, I thought 2017 but wasn't sure. I know I registered shortly after you created it but didn't really use my account at first.

[eviloatmeal@ak.angelstrapped.com]

@jwildeboer I guess it's been a couple of y... 2019 was seven years ago??!!

[sharoncrockett@toot.community]

@jwildeboer Many of us came over about the same time Musk took over Twitter/X.

[ferret@hub.workersofthe.world]

@Jan Wildeboer :krulorange: I signed up during the Twitter collapse, but not because of it. I just happened to hear about it then and though I'd never used Twitter before, thought Fedi sounded cool.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

First insight: "Far longer than I originally thought" is quite popular

[taschenorakel@mastodon.green]

@herrorange One day longer than me.

@jwildeboer

[pankraz@freunde.ma-nic.de]

@jwildeboer Around 15 years

[nozika@mastodon.art]

@jwildeboer I'm totally new, I joined in February ! I never had an account on any other social media before, but so far I'm happy to be here.

[brezelradar@norden.social]

@jwildeboer 3.5 on mastodon, a lot longer if you count in a now defunct diaspora node...

[mortentorten@subversive.zone]

@jwildeboer hab gerade Mal auf der ersten Instanz nachgeschaut: 15. April 2022

[brianallbee@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer Heh. I can't prove my answer because the server I started with has been decommissioned, but...

[me@social.k3can.us]

@jwildeboer
Looks like I've been on this self-hosted instance since 2024, and my original account on another server is from 2023, so about 3 years in total.