@Moon @blobcat early-2010s cell: oh cool, there’s this gnu social thing, i don’t use twitter but this seems like something similar
federated? oh, they can talk to each other, neat i guess?
why is no one here except for free software enthusiasts? it’s also quite quiet. eh, i’ll pass, the rest of the internet still has plenty to offer

in my case, back then it was more to the actual community, pre-2014 the rest of the internet wasn’t poisoned yet so other things were more compelling than GS/Fedi