I had a mastodon account from 2 years ago i never used (i don't like twitter style social media)
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mastodon and peertube is alli knew
During my master's degree we had a course where we had to make a small app or data collection thingy using the Mastodon api (or something, can't fully remember). So I was aware it existed, and contemplated joining at a few points. Ultimately though, I just don't really vibe with Twitter-like social media. After Reddit did the thing, I saw Lemmy, which suits me way better. I like it so far. I'm donating a small amount of money to help with keeping the instance running, and I hope this remains a cool place to be for many years to come.
Lurked Calckey for a bit , i was fan of Freeplay's userstyles
But decided to go for kbin bc it's not limited to redditlike functions , promising for interacting with rest of 'verse all under one account
I had heard of mastadon but since I was never really big into twitter, I ignored it. Also, I think the first article I read about it was on how to set up your own instance and invite friends to it and that seemed way more than I would want to do.
Reddit, on the other hand, was a big deal for me, and learning about lemmy and kbin was an eye-opener. I was on digg before reddit and was afraid whatever the new thing was would eventually suffer the same fate, but I'm cautiously optimistic the fediverse model may be more resistant to the corrupting influences? We'll see I guess.
I was vaugly aware of Mastadon and the federation idea. Thought it was a cool idea but I just hate the Twitter format so never thought more of it.
No experience at all, I heard about it first in a Reddit thread about alternatives.
I didn't know anything about it, and I still pretty much don't know anything about it. In my super hazy interpretation, it sounds like it pretty much means there are a bunch of spaces that work standalone but it's possible to access one from another without having to sign up or anything to the other. Or something. I'll probably look into it someday but for now I'm just happy to have it.