you: mastodon is dying

me: the rate of keyword searching reply guys who want to share their specific delusions with me certainly is on a healthy upwards trajectory

(in all seriousness, I get pretty much the same amount of engagarinos here as I ever did on twitter with a t)

@0xabad1dea I feel like I found my peers here in a nice way, tho I’ll admit it definitely feels IRCy in its “this is probably not getting used by too many people who don’t want to think about the tech”-ness

In that sense it’s fine if masto is small. It’s ok if a chat room doesn’t have every single person on the planet in it! It’s ok for a group chat to not have 10k people

@0xabad1dea I have never be on Twitter before because i never felt right with this kind of short messenging blasts

The Fediversum has a huge appeal of unifying the world, as in its kind of Meta-Browser that allows to view and interact from one space with so many other places in the online world

I really like the calm atmosphere and the positive freak people here

I just miss here entire subgroups and Fandoms and RL events/organizations, these people have all abandoned their accounts here

@0xabad1dea I... I... I don't know what an "engagearino" is. I feel embarrassed like I should.
@cbleslie it's just my made-up word for units of engagement
@0xabad1dea ahh. Thank you! I'm not a huge "gotta have da boosts" person. So that makes sense to me now.
@cbleslie @0xabad1dea engagarinos were first discovered at CERN in 1996,iirc.

@0xabad1dea I, for one, recently doubled my number of mastodon accounts. So there's that.

I don't feel like it's dying, but there is churn, so it can feel that way if you aren't looking for new people to follow.

@0xabad1dea I have 10% as many followers here as I did on shitbird, & somewhat more florps/pings/responses. It's nice having a network of socials.
@0xabad1dea The fact it's being talked about at all by the indoctrinated should make you proud.
Now I have an image in my head of Captain Picard cosplayers yelling “THERE! ARE! TWO! NINES!!”