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2026-04-27 07:17:36

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: via DoomsdaysCW

jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

For how long have you been on the #Fediverse? Feel free to boost and quote and use the result after the poll has closed!

Less than 1 year

46 Votes | 5%

1 to 3 years

257 Votes | 28%

3-5 years

408 Votes | 45%

More than 5 years

197 Votes | 22%

908 Votes in total
Poll ends

2026-04-27 07:24:05

Alex

herrorange@mastodon.online

@jwildeboer 2 days past 4 year anniversary :)

2026-04-27 07:26:15

Anders Thoresson

anders@thoresson.social

@jwildeboer Time flies, apparently. Should have checked my profile before I answered. Closing in on 4, years, not ”1-2” :)

2026-04-27 07:28:27

ruurd@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer Is there a way to find out?

2026-04-27 07:30:04

ruurd@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer ok need to amend that, last edit to the password entry for mastodon.social was March 2020. So 6 years now. Wow.

2026-04-27 07:32:35

crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts

crossgolf_rebel@moppels.bar

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net over 15 years

2026-04-27 07:34:47

DeepBlue V7.X

deepbluev7@nheko.io

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I actually don't remember! I am pretty sure I created an account quite early, but never used it that much... Then migrated a few times... Whatever, it has been a while. Back then Fedi looked a lot different though, I don't think I even used an ActivityPub based implementation at the start.

2026-04-27 07:41:06

Uwe Trenkner

utrenkner@mastodon.green

@jwildeboer Got my first accounts in 2018. But started using the Fediverse regularly only after Elon took over Twitter.

2026-04-27 07:45:40

Solomon

ojelabii@norden.social

@jwildeboer I … don't remember! About 5 years. maybe more, maybe less!? 🤷

2026-04-27 07:47:53

Hiker

hiker@akk.fedcast.ch

@jwildeboer More than 10 years with own instances and before as user on GnuSocial and StatusNet servers.

2026-04-27 07:54:03

ĞÖKÜ👻👻™

GOKUSHRM@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer 7 months and now I'm getting bored 🤣😝. Because none of my friends are here 😁

2026-04-27 07:55:43

vascorsd

vascorsd@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer i used identi.ca for years before it was destroyed by some random stuff called pump. Then was forced to be on twitter, since people on the tech stack I'm interested were only there. It seems that this account here is 9 years? Time freaking flies 😱😱

2026-04-27 08:08:32

Brynawel

Brynawel@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer

I came with the first "Fuck Elon Musk"-Wave.

2026-04-27 08:10:33

Ypsilenna Gloomvale

Ypsilenna@mastodon.green

@jwildeboer My first account is from 2017 :D

2026-04-27 08:16:23

Coleen Walter

coleenwalter@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer I’m not just new to the Fediverse but I’m new to social media. I avoided signing up for a social media account until February 2026. Curiosity got to me. I chose Mastodon because I read “The Internet Con” by Cory Doctorow.

2026-04-27 08:19:48

not a martian, honest

kyonshi@dice.camp

@jwildeboer I was part of the great Twitter migration of '22. Those were heady days when everything seemed possible.

2026-04-27 08:19:57

World Basement Classic

diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt

@jwildeboer 2018 on mastodon.social, then I moved to tech.lgbt in 2020.

2026-04-27 08:21:38

Nomdeb

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.

2026-04-27 08:23:24

Bruno Girin

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.

2026-04-27 08:24:28

Nu Modular

numodular@c.im

@jwildeboer ✅ Off and on for years

2026-04-27 08:31:38

Ferret

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.