@mmasnick you’re never going to own the libs over here, bro

@mmasnick Nowhere near your number (nor should I be) but I am nearing 800 followers — acquired in just a few months — which amounts to more than twice what I had on the hellsite after years there.

@mmasnick "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded” - Yogi Berra

@mmasnick damn, soon you'll be more popular on the fediverse than you were on Twitter!

@mmasnick wow, congrats man

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Follower count - valuable for journos and those who make their living on content but how I wish we didnt value it so much in general - ah human nature

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You know that remote followers wouldn't be deducted even if they remove the accounts, or the server down?

@mmasnick In three months or so.

Maybe the people who worry about this should worry more about having something to say instead of just parroting what they're told from above.

@mmasnick I'd be more concerned with only 1941 followed people - a bit selfish, wouldn't you say?

@mmasnick "what could a few thousand followers cost, Michael? Ten dollars?"

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I'm not here. Nothing to see, move along.

@mmasnick The quality of the engagement here is soooo much better. The downstream impacts of firing most of the team working on fake accounts is so obvious on the bird site.

@mmasnick 1286 followers right now. On :birdsite: I never went higher than 600.

@mmasnick 22k of those Twitter followers being Russian porn and/or crypto bots, of course.

@mmasnick That's just because you have the Ivory folks juicing your number with auto-follows. /s

@mmasnick congratulations, but we are not quite there yet me think

@mmasnick bUt ThE bOtS!!!1!

@mmasnick Does anybody use #Twitter?

@mmasnick and most of those are likely real people compared to other places >.>

@mmasnick @gray I can only assume a higher number of bot followers on the other site too