When did you ORIGINALLY join Mastodon and/or the Fediverse?

  • Pre-COVID (53%, 1594 votes)
  • 2020 (4%, 124 votes)
  • 2021 (10%, 314 votes)
  • 2023 (18%, 545 votes)
  • 2024 (6%, 190 votes)
  • 2025 (6%, 182 votes)
  • 2026 (3%, 114 votes)
  • 2027 (3%, 90 votes)
3002 voters. Poll end: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 9:41โ€ฏPM

in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

For the people that are complaining about this "2022" year you claim exists:

What generation are you?

  • Greatest generation (9%, 59 votes)
  • Silent generation (4%, 25 votes)
  • Boomer generation (13%, 80 votes)
  • Millennial (56%, 336 votes)
  • Gen Z (22%, 136 votes)
  • Gen Alpha (2%, 14 votes)
594 voters. Poll end: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 9:48โ€ฏPM

in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

catsalad:

i greatly admire the fact that you have enough demographic knowledge of the fediverse to know that there is a lot of gen x who joined in 2022 and that you then purposefully created the best funny and harmless ragebait i've seen in a long time

๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

i bow before the master

in reply to โฉ๏ธŽVOTEโช๏ธŽ แถœสธโฟโฑแถœโฑหขแตโผแตƒแถœแถœแต‰แต–แต—แตƒโฟแถœแต‰ (Ben Royce)

in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

@antdude ...that... is a lot more coincidental than you might want to believe.

But because I have very few things with which to annoy you, I will say it anyway:

E = mcยฒ is a simplified form of Eยฒ = (pc)ยฒ + (mcยฒ)ยฒ

Which looks like cยฒ = aยฒ + bยฒ.

Which is further proof that physicists are having salacious affairs with right triangles.

Energyยฒ = momentumยฒ + massยฒ.

Bow chicka wow wow.

in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

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You people are like junior high school mean girls giving someone the silent treatment. Lucky for you, Gen X is not the kind to go to the teacher and complain.
I'm good enough!
I'm smart enough!
And doggone it, people like me!
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in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

I think it was around 2016-17 or so, I got on a small server run by a person I was familiar with. Found the whole thing confusing. Didn't know how to set things up to suit me, didn't know how anything worked. I gave up on it, most of the feed was in Japanese. Came back on a different, large server the day Elon bought Twitter and this time had no problems at all. ๐Ÿคท
in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

So before covid is the Mastodon version of the dark ages?

I did technically join back then, but at that time the web interface didn't filter out repeated boosts from multiple people I followed. So my feed was extremely repetitive and annoying, which led to me not coming here very often

When Twitter went to shit, I was happy to see that had been changed over here! So I hopped on the 'don and never looked back

in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

From what I remember, it was just before Twitter shat itself to death (around early 2022 or late 2021), as I was getting into open-source and found that Fedi/Masto was libre. Even though it is still an imperfect solution (as it's ultimately still social media), it was really cozy to see how much less chaotic it was compared to Twitter at the time. โ€‹:thinknyan:โ€‹
in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

joined pre COVID for the same disgruntledness with Facebook, but bailed. Wasn't sure what it held for me not knowing anyone else on it. Came back to it with a renewed interest 2 yrs ago (?) in a fucking rage about Facebook again. That said.... I did clear and. Delete my 10-12 years of info, but had to start again just to be able to video chat with my Dad who is 82. And IRL, still, nobody I know is here on the fedi.
in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

Originally in 2017. On a server that defederated before 2020. I created that account when I left Facebook.

I stayed on that server as my exclusive โ€œnon-commercialโ€ social media until quitting Twitter when Gated Rat bought it, and created multiple federated-system accounts at that time.

in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

after Cambridge Analytica ... I never got into twitter. I think I adopted too early and felt like there wasn't much going on besides feeling annoyed about the 140 char limit. Impossible to know when I joined. It was linked to a long since closed spam yahoo account. Probably 2009 or 2010 but maybe earlier.
in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

i joined lemmy when reddit paywalled their app API and then after a couple years realized that the only people who use lemmy are the most toxic assholes ever to read marx and so i left

and then i went back there for some reason and it still fucking sucked and i still fucking hate it there

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in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

@Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

  • Fist explored the Fedi via Masto in 2017,
  • 3 months later I learned that Masto ist by far the most limited platform in Fedi an switched to my own #Pleroma single user instance.
  • after 3 Jears on Pleroma I finaly changed to #Friendica which I still enyoy very much and works as may very own Fediplattfom here on fedi.solibre.de.
in reply to Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฅ— (D.Burch)

I joined when Google Plus bit the dust, only I didn't know it at the time when we were invited to join Diaspora. When Twitter bit the dust, I heard a lot about Mastodon, which does not federate with Diaspora...and so I settled on Friendica because that federates with both. The drawback is that I haven't found a Friendica instance big enough to handle the firehose of toots that is Mastodon, and the one I'm using to post this comment with has actually cut back, and painfully so.

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