The new Micro Blog Mastodon hook up is welcome and I’m definitely going to use it but I think I’ll keep it seperate from my other Mastodon account, I don’t want my clean Micro Blog feed swamped.

@billbennettnz Same here. I’m following a couple micro pals who have moved their microposting to Mastodon (@cheri for example) but otherwise I’m using my social.lol account for Mastodon following. I can see that my Mastodon timeline is going to feel a lot like Twitter, and I want Micro.blog to continue to feel micro to me.

@jean Yes. A very different vibe.

@gdp @jean This is the ActivityPub setting, right? That is, you can follow Mastodon users in Micro.blog @billbennettnz

@gdp Had an email from micro blog about 9 hours ago describing the Mastodon link.

@gdp We are sending them out in batches. Here’s @manton’s post about it: www.manton.org/2023/02/0…

@jean I’m only following two (pixel art related) accounts on Twitter, who are unlikely to ever move to Mastodon. On my mastodon.social account I also only follow two people, to have some activity when I log in on the website.

I suspect—aside from tech enthusiasts and early adopters—most people remain on Twitter. They either don’t know and/or care about the new management, and probably prefer the algorithmic timeline when following hundreds or even thousands of accounts (Mastodon has yet to solve this scenario).

I agree the laidback attitude of micro∙blog is a great feature to have, probably due to the lack of “performative traits.”