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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:12:20 JST Rich Felker

   2+ years in on Mastodon and I've passed 2/3 of the peak follow count I had on :birdsite:, and have way more engagement/reach.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:16:02 JST Rich Felker

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     • KasTas

     @KasTasMykolas That would be interesting to try to measure (clicking thru each profile, looking for recent activity) but I think the reach/engagement speaks for itself. It also suggests most :birdsite: followers were abandoned accounts or bots.

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     KasTas (kastasmykolas@river.group.lt)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:16:05 JST KasTas

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     @dalias great number :} Only thing which worries me a bit, is the "quality" measure (kind of). How many of those people are staying?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:34:51 JST Rich Felker

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     • KasTas

     @KasTasMykolas Even though I don't have specific goals in this area, I like to think about it from a standpoint of whether it's meeting not just social needs but also ones in areas of professional development, mutual aid, disseminating information, enabling activism, etc. So this is kinda the lens thru which I'm looking at things we might call reach/engagement and which some folks deride as self-promo, :birdsite:-brain, etc.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     KasTas (kastasmykolas@river.group.lt)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:34:53 JST KasTas

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     @dalias well, in the end it's all about the feeling... does it fulfill the social needs? And takeaways from these social interactions :)

     As a loyal follower of yours, I'm more than happy :} Also, various more widely adopted or a bit niche communities have formed and do feel staying strong.

     And the same goes for generic social circles. Both, nationality/language and topic based.