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2025-03-21 21:08:19

Elegant_Joy_Digital@mastodon.online

This is not my first account on #Mastodon, and so I understand how important it is to follow LOTS of people, interact, share, comment..

But I get sad to see so many abandoned profiles..

Are people just too impatient?

Do people *gasp* prefer the algorithm?

#WomenInTech #fediverse

2025-03-22 19:44:28

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Elegant Joy Digital Some may have moved to Bluesky because it is what they've been looking for in Mastodon: literally Twitter without Musk.

Some may have moved to other Mastodon instances.

Some may have moved to other places in the Fediverse that are not Mastodon. Maybe they needed more characters and more features and found them on Iceshrimp or Sharkey or Akkoma. Maybe they also wanted to move away from Facebook, got themselves a Friendica account, and then they discovered that a) Friendica is much more powerful, and b) you can follow Mastodon accounts from Friendica and vice versa. And they decided that their Mastodon account was now superfluous because Friendica can do just about all the same and a whole lot on top. Maybe they were even daring enough to tackle Hubzilla's massive learning curve to be rewarded with Hubzilla's massive set of features.

Either way, in the cases in the above paragraph, they couldn't mark their Mastodon accounts as moved to some other specific place, so you won't know.

Still, I think it's bad manners not to tell anyone where you've gone.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Bluesky #Fediverse #Mastodon #Akkoma #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Friendica Hubzilla