There are many big and respectable names in the #Fediverse today. I'm curious though, where were you & what were you up to during the first 10 years of the network (2008โ2018)?
There are many big and respectable names in the #Fediverse today. I'm curious though, where were you & what were you up to during the first 10 years of the network (2008โ2018)?
There are many big and respectable names in the #Fediverse today. I'm curious though, where were you & what were you up to during the first 10 years of the network (2008โ2018)?
Care to share your background & why you jumped into #ActivityPub ?
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yeah I didn't know about the existence of this place until at least 2021.
@tilefan@lemm.ee ๐๐ฝ For some reason, after the lockdowns, it was when things started to change. There was Elon/Twitter exodus. Then the Reddit exodus. These two events made a huge impact than all the efforts combined prior to it.
But it's still hard to pinpoint what changed. I mean, media coverage was, I think similar as in the first 10 years, it was always about "Twitter alternative" from mass media. I guess what Elon and Reddit did are the trigger point and not the media coverage of a "Twitter/Reddit alternative"?
for me, I had an account set up before the Twitter bullshit, but I only use Twitter to follow sex workers anyway. The brain-drain over on Reddit made the moderation even worse, and the moderation was already the worst part of the site
@youronlyone@c.im I honestly did not know the Fediverse existed until 2022. I hesitated to start an account for a few months, but eventually Elon Musk was confirmed as the new owner of Twitter in Oct 2022, so I shut down my accounts there, and started this one in Dec 2022.
@gcvsa@mstdn.plus True. It's why I'm in favour with Elon doing all he can to "improve" Twitter. ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐ He's driving growth elsewhere!
@youronlyone@c.im I've been here since 2020. I wasn't really big on decentralization, but Mastodon seemed a more privacy-oriented place to settle in, so I joined out of curiosity.
This place was quiet before the Twitter exodus in 2022, and now it's bustling and very active. I like it here a lot.