I’m new to the fediverse so, while I know this is not necessarily the recommended way to go about things, I identified a handful of instances (one per platform I was interested in) and made a few accounts with the intent of spending time immersed in each of those platforms before deciding which to make my main fediverse account.

Beehaw is my Lemmy exploration account, and I also have an account on one kbin instance, one Mastodon instance, and one Pixelfed instance. In terms of usage so far, I scroll and read the most on Mastodon, but don’t feel compelled to post anything there myself, so I’ll probably use that account for just lurking. I spend a lot less time on Beehaw than on Mastodon, but I feel a lot more comfortable speaking up here, so it’s a strong candidate for my home base account. However, I could say the same about kbin once it has more time to develop and communities start to settle.

One thing I like more about Beehaw than kbin right now is that there are more conversations happening, and on more topics than just the Reddit migration. It feels more like its own thing, as opposed to a landing pad for people fleeing the corporate platforms. For example, right now, my kbin feed is just overwhelmed with Reddit-related content. I can only scroll past so much of that looking for other content before I head over here to Beehaw for a while. That will probably sort itself out with time, and I’m looking forward to experiencing that transition and seeing what kbin looks like on the other side of it.

In general I’m really starting to feel at home in the fediverse, and I’m quite enjoying my exploration of the various formats it has to offer!