This is Mur 
What's the story of you coming to Fediverse? How did everyone ended here?
@mur2501
Some 4 years ago I literally searched for a twitter alternative with a higher character count limit. 😋
Ended up on mastodon.social with 500 characters. I liked it.
Then I saw mastodon.host with 2000 characters. I liked it more and moved to there. Then I managed to convince its admin to bump it up to 4000 characters. Woo, like like like!
Then mastodon.host crashed hardcore and was not recoverable and I moved on to Qoto with 65k characters. Woo, likey!
Not that I ever need to type in that many characters, but to make a toot without worrying any bit about character count is very relaxing!
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@mur2501 After the takeover, lots of people I follow in tech started moving or at least cross posting. So here I am.
@tansly Yeah we got a huge user spike during the takeover 
@mur2501 about 3 years ago I read a news article on a little knows website talking about how Indians are migrating from twitter to here. I wasn't even active on twitter but wanted to see what the deal was about. The initial days were great, everyone was so friendly and like minded, shitposting was at it's peak. Then the twitterati left, but I liked the space here. You can be whatever you want, speak whatever you want, and no one will judge you. So I stayed.
@freemo
@mur2501 Well, I woke up one day and suddenly I was here!
I'm kidding off course. A couple of years ago I was searching for and trying out several kinds of Social Media, especialy the kind where my privacy wouldn't be raped like on Failbook. I tried Diaspora and other stuff, but Mastodon and MeWe suited me best. I added Matrix/Element later.
@mur2501
The so-manieth social media project of Google was about to be cancelled, and my partner and I heard about Mastodon and Matrix. Can't remember in which order.
I've spent a while on Reddit too, but that was very US-centered. And Mastodon is very European.
I immediately fell in love with the weirdos and queers and artists out here. The recent influx of millions of normies drown out those voices, which makes me sad, tbh.
Around 4 years ago.
For me, I was just looking into the list of Software under the GNU Project on Wikipedia.
There I found about GNU Social, through that I found about Fediverse, through it I found about Mastodon.
Well then I looked up into Mastodon. Found an instance called eldritch.cafe , the name sounded cool so I joined it.
As it is a French instance mostly focusing on Queer, I didn't had much communication breakthrough on it. I was a dead account there for almost a year. Though it still gave me a window into Fediverse.
Afterwards I created an account on mastodon.online and there I truly started to intereact with others. Most of my current Fedi friends are from this era.
During this mastodon.online period, I also created various secondary accounts on other instances like mstdn.social and some Pleroma instances too (though now all of them are dead)
I came to qoto I think around 2 years back? well the reason for that was cause I used to follow @freemo (I still follow him) and basically I just like his way of running the his own instance. The whole concept of STEM based network. Also 65K character limit (This toot itself is now bigger than 500 Chars)
So yeah that's the story