I had no idea it existed before the API changes were announced.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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I wrote a paper about the fediverse in Law School in 2014. That wasn't my introduction to the concept, just a good way to frame my answer.
I think I joined Mastodon around September or October 2022? But I hadn't heard of Kbin until a few weeks ago :p
Actually I wasn't familiar with the fediverse at all outside of Mastodon before then
Had a Mastodon account years ago (whenever the radical.town instance was a thing). But I never used it because I never used Twitter. Made an account on an instance for music and that I'll actually use here recently with the Twitter stuff. Then joined kbin and Lemmy to check them out shortly after with everyone else during all the commotion.
I had a general idea of the Fediverse, how it worked, and some of the platforms on it (Friendica, etc), but never really got into it til earlier this year.
My experience matches op pretty much to a t. What I love about all of it is how light and free it feels. I don't feel hemmed in or funneled like I do on other apps.
Pretty familiar. I first learned about the fediverse when I joined Mastodon. I kept it at arms length as just a curiosity until Elon bought Twitter last year, when I switched to Mastodon full time. Since then I joined Pixelfed, Lemmy, Kbin, and checked out Calckey.
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.