@nepfag
Story time:
I don't remember exactly how I got here, but it was probably thanks to Torba banning loli and mentioning Mastodon.
I went through many of the instances on joinmastodon.org and found all of them were shit, so I made my own and then started following random people from public timelines of the instances on joinmastodon.org and their admins. I didn't know other software and instances not listed there existed.