@Danc I was thinking about this earlier today. Weโre on a game development mastodon instance. I typically only follow game developers. So then why follow anyone on mastodon at all, when I can just participate in the local timeline instead? Sure, I pick out and follow my favourite people, mostly old names and faces I recognise from early twitter and even irc before that. But the local timeline is always the most lively and bound to be the most interesting purely because *everyone* is there.