Post 9lvS9fMtoRuMi4BIeW by wsaewyc@social.librem.one
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 (DIR) Post #9lvS9f0DAnlBZhZBI0 by wsaewyc@social.librem.one
       2019-08-15T23:21:10Z
       
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       "What is up with this? I followed somebody but their toots are not showing up in my timeline!"Maybe you *requested* to follow them. In the #fediverse people can choose to approve their followers, and your request might not have been approved, may even have been rejected.It is a different world view here on #Mastodon compared with the bird site. How many followers is not a good metric here.
       
 (DIR) Post #9lvS9fMtoRuMi4BIeW by wsaewyc@social.librem.one
       2019-08-15T23:32:07Z
       
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       One of the more interesting things I have been noticing lately is #insularity.As a site grows in number of active users, they tend to interact *more* with other users who are not on the same instance. The largest instances with real people consistently drop to a bit below 30%.My working assumption (without specific evidence) is #social people explore by conversation, exposing themselves to new ideas, people.There are, of course, exceptions.