@bazkie same haha but we must let our ethics overcome our selfishness haha ;)

However local feeds like on smaller instances like beige.party will likely remain the same, as new users probably gonna continue to just go to mastodon.social from joinmastodon.org and ya people followed/following also stay the same?

welllll yes BUT

if mastodon gets significantly more users, this also increases interest from bad actors, like big corpo with financial interests (think spam, datamining) and governments (think control, digital warfare, propaganda)

this will become a nuisance, it will be hard to keep the boundaries of our bubble(s) from leaking

@rythur imho there hasn't really been a mass migration (yet)

(I mean I guess maybe from twitler to bluesky but I'm not on either)

@bazkie

I was here for the twitter one and, yup, the place became more toxic. Fortunately, it hasn't remained that way too much. I believe the twit migrate also brought more bots, scams, and other stuff like that. And, I could feel the increase in glowies too... You know, the conversation manipulators. It isn't too complicated though: if they are toxic and come here, this place becomes more toxic!

@rythur
Didn't know about those glowies! Interesting!

I do wonder if people don't adjust to the majority. Like if the toxic people are the minority and get negative feedback/no engagement, won't they adjust?
@bazkie

@rythur @bazkie

I came here as part of the 2023 Twitter exodus and watched as 98% of my fellow refugees either went back to their abuser or decamped to Bsky instead.

I stayed here cos it felt more like “home”, like the web of old. Sure it’s quieter, but also weirder in the best sense of the word. More reminiscent of the vibe from when Usenet and forums were the norm. Hell, I first got online via 300 baud modem to a BBS…. 😉