T. J. BombadilI’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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| None. | |
| A few (1-3) | |
| A bunch (4-10) | |
| Lots! All my friends are here (10+) |
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irilyth@c_dan4th 28/30; the other two are someone I only know from an online game (Button Men), and an author (Daniel Keyes Moran).
@irilyth Interesting! I guess that would be another good question of “who do you consider your on-line friends”.
@c_dan4th I feel like social media has always been a way for me to keep in touch with IRL friends, going way back to the LiveJournal days. I didn't join interest groups or follow people who seemed neat, it was all about people I knew (or once in a while, friends of friends). Dreamwidth, Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, and Mastodon, are (or were) all like that for me. The main category of exception are authors who I like and want to hear about it when they write something new. :^ )
@irilyth I had rules around each of my social medias. FB was only people I knew IRL. Twitter was anyone I’d interacted win in some interesting way. Mastodon seems to trend more to the latter now that I’m not on either of the others.
@c_dan4th Yeah, I have a rule like that for LinkedIn, which is nominally supposed to be for work connections, but I didn't always stick to it strictly.
@irilyth For LI, I have to have actually worked with or know the person. And I avoid it mostly.
For Strava, it’s anyone I’ve run/biked/whatever with, or people I particularly want to give encouragement to. And a few random people in my area who do interesting things.