@jmaxb When Mastodon mania hit micro.blog, I took to unfollowing almost everyone who listed a Mastodon account on their profile. Before long I realized that, except for a couple of fellow cranks, almost everyone here was on Mastodon, so I started re-following. (My list is still quite a bit shorter than it was before the purge.)
Now I see people talking about quitting Mastodon, so maybe the imbalance in the force is being rectified?
@JMaxB It was inevitable that Mastodon would be infected with all the evils of Twitter once so many people started migrating.
@MitchW My impression from conversations here on m.b. If it's still growing in the wider internet world, I wouldn't be surprised. And even my m.b. impressions depend on the people I choose to follow. My own attitude comes from my wanting to experience m.b. as a respite from The Connected Life, not as just another aspect of it.
@JMaxB In theory, everyone on Micro.blog is part of the Fediverse thanks to ActivityPub which is turned on by default now. We also listed default Mastodon usernames in people’s profiles. So maybe it wasn’t quite the rush to Mastodon it seemed.
Like you, I don’t want my M.b timeline to be flooded with Mastodon conversations, so I stopped following people who were involved in a lot of those.
@jean yes I am selective of who I follow here that is mastodon. On my separate mastodon account I follow way more people but by being selective only a few come over to my micro.blog timeline and I like it that way, it’s much more chill here that way and doesn’t stress me out
@JMaxB I created a separate mastodon account thinking I might see a reason and some value for it, but I’ve never really felt compelled by it. Replacing Twitter with it seems like replacing Coke with Diet Coke rather than changing to water.
I agree with you, @jean, that having Micro.blog flooded with Mastodon conversations is undesirable. I also dislike cross-posting in general; often I will open Micro.blog or Ivory and see people sharing the same thing in both spaces—not sure of the value there.
Since rejoining Mastodon with a newer instance (social.lol), I've come to view Micro.blog as even more of a kind of special journal of my personal photos. Whenever I'm about to hit 'Post' here, I stop for a second to ask if it's something that's meaningful enough to be on Micro.blog or if it's just the kind of quick update that would go on something like Mastodon or Twitter. I'm trying to be more deliberate in what I post where.
