Stephanie en Chile
gbhnewsSeeing all the new people coming on board to the #fediverse got me thinking: how long have you been on #Mastodon? #poll
30 days or less
90 days or less
One year or less
Year or multiple years
Poll ended at .
also if you are new, welcome! If you are a journalist, check out Mastodon 101 for Journalists (but honestly it's probably good for everybody) https://lisawilliams.github.io/lisa/tech/2022/11/28/mastodon-101-for-journalists.html
stephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸@gbhnews this is such a great piece!
JeffThe best new user tutorial for #journalists, #journos, and #news outlets continues to be the one by @mojo
Mastodon: A Quick Start Guide for Journalists
https://robbmontgomery.com/mastodon-a-quick-start-guide-for-journalists/
As a bonus he's got a link that news-types can use for an account on the Newsie server which is otherwise closed to new accounts.
Kevin Gamin@gbhnews Elon's initial shenanigans brought me here. I'm still on Twitter, as there are many #DrumCorps people and orgs (such as the Boston Crusaders) who are still there and do not appear to be making a move anytime soon.
I loved loved loved learning about this local drumline: https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2023/04/03/in-a-city-where-drumlines-are-a-rarity-these-young-boston-drummers-step-it-up
@gbhnews I saw that article! Organizations like these are such a benefit to their communities.
@kevingamin I know, it was so uplifting to hear them when they came to our studio.
@gbhnews Your own Tiny Desk Concert. 👍
Mark Squires 
@kevingamin @gbhnews It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You don't leave because they won't. They may not leave because you're not. Eventually, something has to open the floodgates.
It's hard. I am having this same struggle on Facebook. But Twitter at least is deleted and canceled and I had thousands of followers. I just won't put up with its extremism and other nonsense, no matter what.
MisterMatt 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦@gbhnews I joined during that first big wave of Twitter migration late last year. I still maintain my Twitter account but it has not really been used.
I expect this might be the beginning of the end of Twitter
@MisterMatt We joined October 27 of 2022, so maybe around the time you did?
@gbhnews November 18 2022 for me
Dr James J TeethI remember Mastodon when it was all tumbleweeds and scrubland.
@jimgon I bet the sunsets were beautiful.
You could see all the way to the mountains.
👩🦯The Blind Fraggle@gbhnews I joined on Halloween of last year, and I love it! Welcome to all the new people! Still feeling fairly new myself.
@Fragglemuppet We joined right around then too.
Linebyline→mastoart.social@gbhnews About eight months. Joined last November around the time Deviantart embraced generative AI.
Matthew Green@gbhnews I’m like everybody else. I signed up for this account when musk took over Twitter but I did have another account on a server that I can’t remember about 7 years ago but stopped using it cos I got no engagement. It’s improved now
Shimriez@gbhnews Just Mastodon or all of it?
@shimriez I was thinking of just Mastodon but the whole #fediverse is very important too!
Ozzy🕯
Roundcat@gbhnews Since 3 Weeks ago. Left reddit, discovered kbin and mastodon is just kinda attached to it.
JeniParsons@gbhnews oops I checked and it’s been over a year and I hadn’t noticed. Happy here
0mega ☣ [hz]
ahimsa@gbhnews I joined in April 2022 but I rarely logged in and didn't post. I made my first post last November.
Diogenes@gbhnews I creted an account a few months ago when Musk took over Twitter
A. RiveraDang, I admit I had to recheck when I joined. Been here longer than I thought. Time sure flies when having a good time.
anthhelm@gbhnews these options don't form disjoint sets
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@gbhnews Quasiment depuis la création de Mastodon ! 😉
Braw ☕🏳️🌈@gbhnews first signed up before COVID was a thing, been coming back almost regularly, and even made some contributions to the code and translations. Really love this place :3
Meow.tar.gz 
@gbhnews I just hit my 8th month. 7th month self hosted.
MichaelCabus@gbhnews was on before. But missed it. So I’m back.
Peter Binkley@gbhnews a few years, but only active since November
Punished Y2K 🏳️⚧️@gbhnews I got on mastodon during the first #twitterexodus and while I haven't used it all that much it was a great decision to start an account here I must say
Daniel@gbhnews I'm part of the November wave of #twittermigration and I'm pleased to say it stuck. It's never going to be a direct Twitter replacement, but considering how much of that was doom scrolling and sadness at the end, I don't want it to be
Macer@gbhnews i’m kind of sad my diaspora* pod time doesn’t count.
Pusher Of Pixels (old account)@gbhnews maybe a more positive phrasing?
Over a month
over 3 months
over 6 months
Etc
Ed SandersSmall caveat, this is my second go-round. I signed up four or five years ago, but didn’t keep up the account.
@gbhnews lol, less than 30 minutes
Black Chic with the Red Truck@ReneeWestberry Thank you so much! ❤️ Happy to be here. 😊
Oregon Animal LoverYou know your categories aren't mutually exclusive?
Jürgen Hubert@gbhnews Started spring last year when it seemed to become a real possibility that Elon Musk would take over Twitter.
Leo Fosse on Mastodon@gbhnews
As soon as The Muskrat bought the Bird Site.
As soon as The Muskrat bought the Bird Site.
NAFO fella@gbhnews a couple of years, but with a different account
SP⟁CED GO⟁TSelected one year or less, but I've dabbled a couple times in previous years but didn't stick around. I think I'll be coming up on a year soon since I've been here regularly with the same (moved around) account.
Theta SigmaApparently, according to this poll, I’m an old, embittered resident of mastodon grumbling about these new young things and their modern ideas…. I hadn’t even realised I’d been here more than a year. @gbhnews
@ThetaSigma we promise to stay off your lawn if we are not planting flowers
LWFlouisa@gbhnews Multiple years. I was on during Movims era.
Bertham@gbhnews I know it’s probably just how Mastodons poll work but I find it mildly funny that there was a right answer