For how long have you been on the #Fediverse?

[katyswain@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer Was on identi.ca in 2008, then self-hosted Laconica/StatusNet. Then went to self-hosted Friendica for a few years after StatusNet became "social networking for the enterprise", ran out of IPO money, and imploded.

Then I cocooned for a few years but eventually got a .social account (didn't think that through) in 2021, with a shiny new name and gender (as is the Fediverse custom). And found things really haven't changed much.

[rayotron@mstdn.social]

@NetscapeNavigator @jwildeboer

Netscape's right. In the English language 1 to 3 years implies the inclusion of every day of the third year up until the 4th.

[ladynorris@mastodon.art]

@Linux @jwildeboer @NetscapeNavigator

People who have been here for exactly three years can't decide what to vote for :

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@jwildeboer I've always beem here, since time um.. inmemory (or something)

[ticklishhoneybee@twoot.site]

@jwildeboer depends how you count it really, I was on identi.ca fifteen plus years ago or whenever it was, took a break while it was constantly changing and evolving (status net, gnu social, etc) and then came back to mastodon/activitypub a few years ago.

[antonio106@ottawa.place]

@jwildeboer yeah, I think mine is 5 years with a big asterix. I checked it out in covid, got really confused and bored, and left multiple times to go back to IG/FB/Twitter.

I go here when I don't want to be overstimulated on the corporate social media sites, which could be once a day or once a quarter depending on my mood.

[jigmedatse@social.jigmedatse.com]

@jwildeboer Making me feel old...

[unattributed@gotosocial.social]

@jwildeboer My Mastodon profile says 2019...but I suspect that might be my second account as I switched handles and wanted a clean account...probably around 2017 or 2018.

[someonetellmetosleep@chitter.xyz]

@jwildeboer Unfortunately my original instance no longer exists to check but I'm *pretty certain* I joined before april 2021, I think it was in 2020 or maybe even 2019 in fact.

[worldtravelerall7@mastodon.world]

@jwildeboer

& I fucking love it

i am so happy i landed here. i had heard of Mastodon when i got on bsky bc i wanted to be part of the resistance to this fascist regime

but when they booted me for celebrating the death of a racist, fascist bigot & I came to the #fediverse, i couldn't be happier!

[neurologo@bcn.fedi.cat]

@jwildeboer around 9 years
@Wulf

[devils_rancher@beige.party]

@jwildeboer Due to some weird timestamp error, my first post on Octodon social was a few hours before the admin’s first “test” post. There were obviously people already there in good numbers, and I felt late to the party in April 2017. People rushed in, people rushed out. Nov ‘22 was the peak influx for sure- I think that was when Musk did a particularly onerous thing that was a final straw for lots of Twitter holdouts. It was an interesting time, and I’m glad it’s worked out this long.

[meldrian@social.tchncs.de]

@jwildeboer already 8 years @ mastodon and additional time earlier @ gnusocial
Had to look it up though

[ikket@mementomori.social]

@jwildeboer
[x] since the date Musk announced he buys twitter. Whenever that was.

[liebach@mastodon.art]

@jwildeboer I remember paying to crowdfund Mastodon back in the day. Got access to something for that, but I didn't really stick around or use it much. But if that counts, about 9 years.

Still, I think at least 5 years for real, but I have changed servers quite a few times, so I am not really sure.

[bed@mastodon.au]

@jwildeboer since the day Elon bought Twitter!

[jollysea@chaos.social]

@jwildeboer just realized that next year it will be 10 years.

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@jwildeboer I was a bit late. It was 8 years and 5 months ago when I joined the first Mastodon server

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@jwildeboer Strictly speaking, I've had an account since 2017; but in practice I've been most active over the past 3-5 years.

[kaliah@dragonscave.space]

@jwildeboer almost exactly 3.5 years.