For how long have you been on the #Fediverse?

[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.

[lieschenrelleum@kolektiva.social]

@jwildeboer started several times, the first time was more than 4 years ago. Always quit after a short time because it was simultaneously boring and strangely hostile.

[lieschenrelleum@kolektiva.social]

@GOKUSHRM @jwildeboer yeah and it’s hard to find community here

[funcrunch@me.dm]

@jwildeboer

I initially got an account in 2016, but never used it. When I came back to the Fediverse in 2022 during the Great Twitter Migration, that instance was no longer active, so I got an account on mastodon.lol. When that instance went down I moved to my current instance, me.dm.

[derbruesseler@chaos.social]

@jwildeboer Since December 2018. Before that, I was on gnusocial and later on mastodon.cloud.