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2026-04-27 15:17:36

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

339 Votes | 6%

1 to 3 years

1721 Votes | 30%

3-5 years

2366 Votes | 41%

More than 5 years

1303 Votes | 23%

5729 Votes in total
Poll ends

2026-04-27 15:24:05

Alex

herrorange@mastodon.online

@jwildeboer 2 days past 4 year anniversary :)

2026-04-27 15:25:29

camulus

camulus@norden.social

@jwildeboer to long.

2026-04-27 15:26:15

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 15:28:27

ruurd@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer Is there a way to find out?

2026-04-27 15:30:04

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 15:41:06

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 15:45:40

Solomon

ojelabii@norden.social

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

2026-04-27 15:54:03

ĞÖKÜ👻👻™

GOKUSHRM@mastodon.social

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

2026-04-27 15:55:43

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 16:08:32

Brynawel

Brynawel@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer

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

2026-04-27 16:10:33

Ypsilenna Gloomvale

Ypsilenna@mastodon.green

@jwildeboer My first account is from 2017 :D

2026-04-27 16:16:23

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 16:19:48

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 16:21:38

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 16:23:24

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 16:24:28

Nu Modular

numodular@c.im

@jwildeboer ✅ Off and on for years

2026-04-27 16:28:25

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists

SharonCrockett@toot.community

@jwildeboer Many of us came over about the same time Musk took over Twitter/X.

2026-04-27 16:39:34

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

First insight: "Far longer than I originally thought" is quite popular ;)

2026-04-27 17:01:07

embix

brezelradar@norden.social

@jwildeboer 3.5 on mastodon, a lot longer if you count in a now defunct diaspora node...

2026-04-27 17:18:44

Brian Allbee

BrianAllbee@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer Heh. I can't prove my answer because the server I started with has been decommissioned, but... 🤣

2026-04-27 17:29:33

Pax Ahimsa Gethen

funcrunch@me.dm

@jwildeboer

I initially got an account in 2016, but never used it. When I came back to the Fediverse in 2022 during the Great Twitter Migration, that instance was no longer active, so I got an account on mastodon.lol. When that instance went down I moved to my current instance, me.dm.

2026-04-27 17:44:04

Der Brüsseler 🇪🇺

derbruesseler@chaos.social

@jwildeboer Since December 2018. Before that, I was on gnusocial and later on mastodon.cloud.

2026-04-27 17:59:48

Crowjane

Crowjane@mastodon.sdf.org

@jwildeboer

I joined the day muskrat got the keys to Twitter. I deleted my Twitter account and never looked back. The Fediverse is my only social media account. It’s comfy here.

2026-04-27 18:04:24

Bodhipaksa

bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot

@jwildeboer There's a bit of a bulge dating from when Musk began the process of acquiring Twitter.

2026-04-27 18:08:34

Sinnlos

sinnlos@social.tchncs.de

@jwildeboer just found out when looking up the date yesterday was my 4 anniversary…Yay

2026-04-27 18:12:08

JeniParsons

JeniParsons@mstdn.social

@jwildeboer four years today! Wouldn’t leave now

2026-04-27 18:32:30

Jernej Simončič �

jernej__s@infosec.exchange

@jwildeboer Active since 2022, first account in 2017.

2026-04-27 18:37:22

Wolf Munroe ☎

munroe@dice.camp

@jwildeboer

I came in November 2022 in the big migration from Twitter when it came under ownership of a... Well, I'd rather not write down my opinion of the owner of the site that used to be Twitter.

2026-04-27 18:44:43

Jarjantifa

jarjan@mederland.nl

Small Screenshot showing Mastodon & 14/06/2020 tags for my previous (first) account.

@jwildeboer
Should have checked more thoroughly. It's more than 5 years, not 3-5... 😅

2026-04-27 18:54:34

tofeo :verified:

tofeo@mstdn.social

@jwildeboer

Status.net was my first account then friendica then hubzilla then gnusocial then mastodon then wordpress then picosocial

2026-04-27 18:57:19

Susanne Lilith

susannelilith@rheinneckar.social

@jwildeboer Seit Elon Musk Twitter aufgekauft und in eine rechte Jauchegrube verwandelt hat. Ich sagte auch, das Twitter damit tot sei. Ach, wäre es doch nur gestorben, statt verdreht, gebrochen, zerrissen und zerfleischt worden zu sein hin zu X. 🕯️😢

2026-04-27 18:58:59

tofeo :verified:

tofeo@mstdn.social

Christian Stöcker wrote the following post Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:41:48 +0200

EVs are dominating new car sales in some countries, while others are slower to transition Monthly share of new car sales by type in selected markets Battery electric • Plug-in hybrid Non plug-in hybrid ICE •Ethanol •Other Norway Netherlands China UK <br />France Thailand 100% 50% 0% 2018 2025 2018 2025 2018 2025 2018 20252018 2025 2018 2025 Germany Indonesia South Korea US India Brazil 100% 50% 0% 2018 2025 2018 2025 2018 2025 2018 2025 2018 2025 2018 2025 Source: Government and industry data compiled by <br />Robbie Andrews, Cicero Center for International Climate Research • Vehicle classifications may vary by country. For example, in China and the Netherlands, non plug-in hybrids are included within ICE figures. FINANCIAL TIMES

Die roten Flächen, das ist der Verbrennermarkt, mit dem es rasant bergab geht.

Im Skigebiet wären das meiste Schwarze Pisten.

Aber die Retroprediger in Deutschland, die immerzu von “Wirtschaftskompetenz” reden, wissen es weiterhin besser.

@jwildeboer

apparently #Norway is almost electric but it is rich country. More you are rich more you are electric

2026-04-27 19:07:24

disorderlyf

disorderlyf@todon.eu

@jwildeboer We talking how long have I been active or how long have I had an account on $fedi_service ?

2026-04-27 19:48:22

Dipper

LaD_Hallo@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer Since "Musk day" and never looked back...

2026-04-27 19:54:49

☬𝓐𝓶𝓲𝓬𝓐_𝓛𝓾𝓬𝓲𝓢☬ ✅

amicalucis@mastodon.online

@jwildeboer
I've been here for almost six years

2026-04-27 19:56:11

Frank Walter

frankwalter@c.im

@jwildeboer I’m new to Mastodon but old to social media. The others have … an unpleasant user experience. Wanted something different. And my wife made me do it. 🙂 As usual she was right.

2026-04-27 19:58:50

Focaccina

focaccina@troet.cafe

@jwildeboer apparently almost 3.5 years, i wouldn't have thought! Though quite some time was rather to completely inactive.

2026-04-27 20:18:55

Lebensstrom 🏳️‍🌈

Lebensstrom@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer In April I've been for 8 years in Fediverse

2026-04-27 21:28:55

Zash

zash@fosstodon.org

@jwildeboer Seems I was on Identi.ca in 2010

2026-04-27 22:04:43

TelH90

kkarhan@c.im

@jwildeboer long enough…

2026-04-27 23:10:12

Netscape Navigator

NetscapeNavigator@social.vivaldi.net

@jwildeboer

This poll is kind of flawed since anyone here who has been here for 3 years has 2 options in the poll (both 1 to 3 and 3 to 5).

A better poll would have been:

* Less than 1 year
* 1 to 3 years
* 4 to 5 years
* More than 5 years

2026-04-27 23:14:50

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

@NetscapeNavigator Yes, everything I post attracts a „yes, but“ or sealioning reply. I’m used to that. More than 4000 votes seem to indicate that people are OK with the options presented so I guess you are a bit on the pedantic side here ;)

2026-04-27 23:19:51

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Netscape Navigator I have a huge bag of nits for you to pick 😏

@Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

2026-04-27 23:42:19

Netscape Navigator

NetscapeNavigator@social.vivaldi.net

@hans

🤣 I have a bag of facts for you, but it's to much for you to swallow.

@jwildeboer

2026-04-28 15:54:23

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Netscape Navigator It's "too much", not "to much". That's a fact you can put in that same bag of yours 😉

2026-04-27 23:57:22

Chris Koester

chris@olsberg.social

@jwildeboer The most important thing is actually that we’re all here NOW!

👍

2026-04-28 01:56:19

Joseph Allen

elgringomexicano@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer I made the account in 2023 but never used it, then came back to it in the last few weeks after getting off of almost all other big tech social media. So far the experience is much better and I'm glad to be here now. 😁👍

2026-04-28 02:01:32

Katy Swain

katyswain@mastodon.social

@jwildeboer Was on identi.ca in 2008, then self-hosted Laconica/StatusNet. Then went to self-hosted Friendica for a few years after StatusNet became "social networking for the enterprise", ran out of IPO money, and imploded.

Then I cocooned for a few years but eventually got a .social account (didn't think that through) in 2021, with a shiny new name and gender (as is the Fediverse custom). And found things really haven't changed much.

2026-04-28 04:13:00

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

catsalad@infosec.exchange

@jwildeboer I've always beem here, since time um.. inmemory (or something)

2026-04-28 05:42:26

Jigme Datse

jigmedatse@social.jigmedatse.com

@jwildeboer Making me feel old...

2026-04-28 05:58:50

Bee (sleep-deprived)

someonetellmetosleep@chitter.xyz

@jwildeboer Unfortunately my original instance no longer exists to check but I'm *pretty certain* I joined before april 2021, I think it was in 2020 or maybe even 2019 in fact.

2026-04-28 06:05:35

WorldTravelerAll7

WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.world

@jwildeboer

& I fucking love it💙

i am so happy i landed here. i had heard of Mastodon when i got on bsky bc i wanted to be part of the resistance to this fascist regime

but when they booted me for celebrating the death of a racist, fascist bigot & I came to the #fediverse, i couldn't be happier!

2026-04-28 06:44:05

Chris “Emergent-C” Vreeland

Devils_Rancher@beige.party

@jwildeboer Due to some weird timestamp error, my first post on Octodon social was a few hours before the admin’s first “test” post. There were obviously people already there in good numbers, and I felt late to the party in April 2017. People rushed in, people rushed out. Nov ‘22 was the peak influx for sure- I think that was when Musk did a particularly onerous thing that was a final straw for lots of Twitter holdouts. It was an interesting time, and I’m glad it’s worked out this long.

2026-04-28 06:48:17

Enrico "meldrian" Michaelis

meldrian@social.tchncs.de

@jwildeboer already 8 years @ mastodon and additional time earlier @ gnusocial
Had to look it up though

2026-04-28 07:01:26

Ilkka Tengvall

ikkeT@mementomori.social

@jwildeboer
[x] since the date Musk announced he buys twitter. Whenever that was.

2026-04-28 08:57:30

Bed ⁂

bed@mastodon.au

@jwildeboer since the day Elon bought Twitter!

2026-04-28 09:07:40

joël

jollysea@chaos.social

@jwildeboer just realized that next year it will be 10 years.

2026-04-28 09:08:05

Pxl Phile

ppxl@social.tchncs.de

@jwildeboer I was a bit late. It was 8 years and 5 months ago when I joined the first Mastodon server 👴🏽

2026-04-28 12:01:05

Calamity Joan 😷

clickhere@mastodon.ie

@jwildeboer Strictly speaking, I've had an account since 2017; but in practice I've been most active over the past 3-5 years.

2026-04-28 12:04:31

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷

Tooden@aus.social

@jwildeboer The day Leon carried the bathroom basin into the lobby of Twitter hq, I'd been here 2 weeks.

2026-04-28 12:38:24

Kaliah

Kaliah@dragonscave.space

@jwildeboer almost exactly 3.5 years.

2026-04-28 12:47:19

Tuukka R

Tuuktuuk@piipitin.fi

@jwildeboer

Apparently since 17.2.2025: https://feddit.org/u/tuuktuuk

A little over a year.

2026-04-28 13:40:32

David Penfold :verified:

davep@infosec.exchange

@jwildeboer In my 10th year!

2026-04-28 13:48:45

Tommi 🤯

tommi@pan.rent

@jwildeboer I have been instance-hopping for my first couple of years. I think the first account I ever had is now dead, but @xplosionmind@mastodon.uno and @tommi@mastodon.uno are still there! Crazy!

EDIT: woah I found @xplosionmind@mastodon.online

2026-04-28 16:42:05

nachtet

nachtet@norden.social

@jwildeboer I had to check - 4 years THIS month! 🥰🎂

2026-04-28 17:06:08

Amandine

eco_amandine@mastodon.cr

@jwildeboer I created an account about 4 years ago. At the time I though it was too slow and didn't get it. Then I went to another social network (like Mastodon but smaller, it didn't federated with Mastodon, I can't remember its name now). Then I came back in November 2022, but this time with some friends from Twitter. Some of them explained me how this place works and I met more people afterwards. It has been better.