@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?