I’m thankful to the great Twitter exodus of 2022, it made the mastodon space a much more interesting space. I’d been playing with mastodon since 2016 at the latest, but finally having people to interact with who weren’t just talking about federation, privacy tools, and tech stuff was a breath of fresh air. Granted, I’m already more active here in the threadiverse than I ever was on mastodon, but I think these two exoduses have the potential to really give people a chance to expand their horizons. I see people talk sometimes about how mastodon users dropped off after a montho or two after the twitter buyout, but looking at the graphs, the trend is obvious. Even if monthly active users dropped after the buyout bump, they were still double what they’d been before the buyout. We might see some of the same in this space, and I’m mostly okay with that. If Lemmy / Kbin usage drops 50% it will still be about 100% more active than it was before, and I think the people who are engaged here are really engaged and interested in keeping this going