Who introduced you to the Fediverse?
Someone on twitter, but I don't remember who anymore.
Myself
I heard about it from the Privacy Tools forum, originally. I was on Diaspora before Mastodon, and then I joined the Privacy tools Mastodon instance, which no longer exists.
I did
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