Are we getting any new Mastodon members? I've done this poll before, and I want to do it again. Please boost far and wide! When did you join Mastodon? #Poll #polls
in the past week
4.6%
in the past month
6%
in the past 6 months
25.5%
in the past year
63.9%
Poll ended at .
@Fragglemuppet I joined back in 2022, though I have migrated over to my current instance less than a week ago
@Fragglemuppet Joined in 2022. My current account just turned one officially.
@Fragglemuppet
I joined Mastodon around the time when the #Muskrat got his sticky little hands on Twitter (late 2022) and I decided to jump ship, to a passing liner mentioned in #PrivateEye.
@Fragglemuppet just mastodon? or fedi in general? 
@OctaviaConAmore I thought about that, but I'm just sticking with Mastodon for this one.
@Fragglemuppet does that include forks like Glitch-soc and Chuckya? 
@OctaviaConAmore I've honestly never even heard of those.

@Fragglemuppet they're both forks of Mastodon that increase the functionality  Glitch-soc is a bit more common, while Chuckya is specifically used by wetdry.world, if memory serves  

since you've excluded other microblogging software like misskey (+sharkey) and akkoma, I'm wondering if you're narrowing it down to very specifically vanilla Mastodon to the exclusion of all else or if you're talking about Mastodon and its forks but with other microblogging software excluded 

fairly large instances like tech.lgbt that a lot of people think of as "mastodon" are actually running Glitch-soc, so it can make a difference 

@Fragglemuppet specifically an instance running mastodon? Or do forks count? Or different software entirely?
@ity An instance running Mastodon.

@Fragglemuppet

Interesting, why specifically Mastodon?

@ity Because that's what I joined, and that's what I was curious about.

@Fragglemuppet interesting

Might wanna clarify in the original post that you mean the specific instance software, since sometimes Mastodon is used as slang for fedi