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I'm using a kbin based fediverse, but beyond a brief stint on Mastodon when that was trendy, this is my first real time being on anything fediverse-related.
I tried Diaspora back in the day when it launched. I'm not sure if that counts or not.
I had (still have) a Mastodon account, but I could never really get my head round it. Finding Lemmy a lot more intuitive (for all its various quirks). Should maybe try Mastodon again now.
I use Element (Matrix) to talk to friends and family. I really enjoy the Fediverse, it feels like we're going back to the user owned internet.
I created accounts on both lemmy and mastodon. I've found that I spend most of my time on lemmy, though I do find that mastodon has several good news aggregation communities that I follow. Like many other new users I'm hoping that future improvements allow for the ability to combine similar community content across multiple instances into a single feed, though I also see the advantage of keeping them separate in order to allow for different trains of thought.
I'm a light user of Mastodon.
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.
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.
I used Twitter to follow people I knew in real life. I use Reddit anonymously to follow topics. I'm planning to do the same here, but it's nice having the option to comment on content directly.
Maybe now we won't have as many posts with screenshot nesting dolls
I also signed up to Mastodon, mostly to support the digitalcourage.social server, but probably won't be using it a lot. I didn't use Twitter, either, but Reddit. I will probably continue to use /r/flying and /r/synthesizer, as they are so niche that I cannot expect anything comparable here.
I'll have to figure out how to post with Mastodon account on Lemmy.