• Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    For the vast majority of Fediverse users, it was either Elon Musk’s announcement in February, 2022, to buy out Twitter, or Elon Musk’s actual Twitter buyout in October, 2022.

    Followed by a tweet that must have looked something like this:

    join mastodon its literally twitter without musk https://mastodon.social/

    As for me, I joined the Fediverse long before there was Lemmy, long before there was even Mastodon, even before it was named Fediverse. I stumbled upon a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to Facebook that even had features beyond Facebook.