I did some “winter cleaning” of the micro.blog accounts I followed. I unfollowed all the dormant accounts. I am now following 45 fewer accounts.

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@khurtwilliams only 29? Must be a quiet timeline 😊

@pratik it is a more relevant timeline for me. It's primarily photographers. I think it's exceptionally challenging to find people of similar interest on micro.blog.

During any weekend of an F1 race, I can easily find a tribe of thousands on Twitter with one hashtag, #F1. I found one F1 fan on micro.blog. He abandoned the service a while ago. 🤷🏽‍♂️

@khurtwilliams At some point, it’s just a question of numbers. MB may have ~10K users. Twitter has 300m. It’s fine to have groups of different interests on different platforms.

@pratik if micro.blog continues in this vein. I will go elsewhere. I doubt I will be missed. I've come and gone from Micro.blog several times before since the Kickstarter.

@khurtwilliams I like F1. Just saying

@khurtwilliams I guess we stay where we’re happy. I enjoy following you even if I don’t respond to most posts.

@pratik, without interaction, there is no community. I left in 2018. I think I am at the point where I might leave again.

@Munish yes, I think we chatted about the last race where Lewis was cheated out of a world championship. Searching the timeline is not possible. This is how I found the few F1 related posts. Finding you was pure luck.

@pratik, do you think micro.blog has 10k active users?

@munish I was wrong. It's still there: https://micro.blog/discover/racing

It looks like my posts were flooding the channel. 🤣

@khurtwilliams @pratik … 10k ? nothing like.

@khurtwilliams @munish the F1 tag is still there

@khurtwilliams As per @sod’s back of the envelope analysis

@khurtwilliams ha - there we go - note to self read the thread completely before commenting 🤷

@khurtwilliams I don’t expect to find anyone here by specific interests - just a group of people that have things to say (nicely) and that occasionally flushes out things that I didn’t know I was interested in until I read something ….

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@pratik @khurtwilliams If I may quote myself. 😊

So, my guess is less than 10,000 (human) users, most of them inactive. […] My gut tells me it's somewhere in the hundreds to lower thousands.

@khurtwilliams I tend to do cyber-housekeeping like that on all my accounts every few months... Keeps the cruft away!

@JohnPhilpin, ok. I see no point in that.

@khurtwilliams thank goodness we are all different 🥸

@alongtheray I do the same on Twitter and Instagram.

@JohnPhilpin, I can see that.

@khurtwilliams … 😎 that’s a different - yet related experiment.

@JohnPhilpin 😃

@JohnPhilpin 👍🏽