@atomicpoet And since we're on about it: follower count is a completely fictitious vanity metric. Just ask Elon's bots, or all those media cos. that pivoted to video.

What matters, per everything that I've seen on the subject, is 'engagement'. [shudders]

Actual people, actually reading what's been written, and engaging with it. That's what advertisers are chasing, and the #FediVerse has that in spades.

Hell, if Steak-Umm had got masto account, they'd have 100k followers in the 1st day.