What was your motivation for seeking out non-mainstream platforms? Why did you choose this platform?

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So I was actually on Mastodon a long time ago in ~2016, where someone very programmer recommended it to me. I didn't get it and so skipped out but I was aware of it.

Years later, before the API-pocalypse, I was getting frustrated with Reddit and then-Twitter and so bailed out on them. A friend had brought up trying to ditch Facebook and algorithms, and I recalled Mastodon and went to looking at it again, this time giving it a proper try.

Well I stuck around obviously and went to browse around at other Fedi-stuff and stumbled upon Lemmy/PieFed, joining it a short while later.

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