@johnphilpin 🤯Boioioing! I see that you follow more than 2500 accounts more than I. I didn’t think there were that many on Micro.Blog.
@odd aah yes - but a little like your own observation … which ones are really active ? … I don’t follow mastodon accounts or web sites … so all supposedly real micro bloggers
@odd extra observation — @gluon says you are following 3 I am not - they are mastadon and web sites - not ‘real’ users … meanwhile micro blog says you are following 20 users I am not - but when I click through NO accounts are listed — something wacky in the counting code … you aren’t the only one … I find that with other users aswell - reported but guessing not a high priority bug
// @manton
@JohnPhilpin Yes, I’d like to both groom my existing follow list, and add new ones, but checking for new users to follow in another persons following can be a downer - lot’s of people who haven’t posted in two or three years, or at all…
@JohnPhilpin @JohnPhilpin @odd @manton @vincent Entirely opt-in, of course. There’s a mix of performative and privacy invasive info in there.
@JohnPhilpin @odd that's a good collection of what would be useful info. I think I'm still 'following' quite a few who no longer post.
@simonwoods the info behind those 4 items is surely public domain ? It’s hard to find but for any person I can look up when they posted if they reply etc ?
Defo don’t want to mess up privacy angles — against all that People First is about.
@odd I constantly prune my follow lists on all the social platforms I use,and all of them have a lot of people who are no longer active
@hjertnes Or even alive. With (self-hosted) blogs it’s much easier, because if people stop, the domain gets unresponsive (not found).
@JohnPhilpin Sure, you can go hunting for it but it’s different to when it is easily displayed for all to see. Given that you’d like to have it displayed somewhere for you to see it, I assume you’d prefer to not go hunting.
The performative angle is most attached to most recent and total number statistics, in which people might make assumptions about people based entirely on numbers: “omg you tweet so much no wonder you’re a loser” etc.
With statistics in general, I think opt-in continues to be the best default, whether we’re talking about this type of display or whether people have analytics code in their blog.