For how long have you been on the #Fediverse?

[utrenkner@mastodon.green]

@jwildeboer Got my first accounts in 2018. But started using the Fediverse regularly only after Elon took over Twitter.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@bjoern I can look back even further. I was on identi.ca (2008), status.net/laconica (2010), pump.io (2012) and ultimately landed on my own instance 8 years ago. @crossgolf_rebel

[ojelabii@norden.social]

@jwildeboer I … don't remember! About 5 years. maybe more, maybe less!?

[hiker@akk.fedcast.ch]

@jwildeboer More than 10 years with own instances and before as user on GnuSocial and StatusNet servers.

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer 7 months and now I'm getting bored . Because none of my friends are here

[vascorsd@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer i used identi.ca for years before it was destroyed by some random stuff called pump. Then was forced to be on twitter, since people on the tech stack I'm interested were only there. It seems that this account here is 9 years? Time freaking flies

[brynawel@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer

I came with the first "Fuck Elon Musk"-Wave.

[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