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When and why did you decide to join the Fedi?

What made you stay?

#askFedi

Show threadPatrick Loftus 🖖

@mayintoronto A childhood friend suggested it to me when I was in a manic what-can-I-host phase in February of 2025. (Instance says July but let's just say some mistakes were made)

Stayed because it's real people using the internet as I think it was meant to be used. It's funny, enlightening, and full of whimsy.

I'd logged off social media in 2010 and this gave me a place that feels like home online.

It does lack auto-play music on profiles... but compromises must be made.

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@pwloftus "manic what can I host" sounds like a coming of age story for the fedi.
Show threadPatrick Loftus 🖖May 27

@mayintoronto It does, now that I've read so much content on the verse.

For myself I've been hosting something, gaming or web servers since around 1995.

The first mastodon instance was spun up after I moved a VM that'd been running since 2013 from VirtualBox to Proxmox and had a sudden realization of "There is so much room for activities".

(which also seems to follow right in line with Fedi coming of age)