@misc : it is in French, but in those two pieces, I explain, with examples, how the followers count is mostly a lie and how people got a lot more engagement on Mastodon (taking the example of a Signal message)

https://ploum.net/2023-10-29-le-droit-de-supprimer-twitter.html

https://ploum.net/2023-07-23-pour-une-poignee-de-followers.html