In reply to Ian Betteridge.

I’m particularly interested to hear your take on this, since you’re one of the people with thousands of followers on Mastodon, and I can’t tell if it’s something that is inevitable once you cross some threshold of numbers.

You’re absolutely right about the Highlander syndrome: my first response is always to be defensive of Mastodon, and it only occurred to me for the first time recently that there’s no need. It’s a shame to lose people you enjoy interacting with, but the key point is that not everybody’s looking for the same thing. I get the sense that BlueSky suits people who are more interested in broadcasting to huge audiences, even if I do agree that it’s clearly doomed to end up like Twitter no matter the “community”’s best intentions.