I was on Twitter for five years and I ended up with 8,000 followers.
I've been on Mastodon for five months, and I already have 16,000 on here.
I think the biggest difference is that Mastodon just leaves me alone to do whatever I feel like doing, whereas Twitter would go out of its way to punch me in the head anytime I tried to enjoy the platform.
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I think part of it too is that Mastodon users are starved for content. Please note that is not intended as a dunk on Mastodon.
On the fowl site, end users are fed from global content and really don't need to follow someone to get their content, but on Mastodon that is not the case.
On Mastodon, you really do need to follow someone to get their content, unless you are on the same server anyway. This difference causes more people to `follow` than would on the fowl site.
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