@PhDMarie I love how you've been here less than a day and only have one top level toot and 16 toots in general (so not massive effort your putting in or anything) and you are already up to 61 followers.
I think this really shows how much easier engagement and getting followers is over here than it is on twitter.
@freemo I do wonder how much of this is driven by tools like Debirdify though.
@freemo Oh, I totally agree that the effect you're describing exists and is quantifiable.
But for folks who are currently migrating and had existing followers over there, I don't think it tells the whole story.
At least half the people I follow here come from tools that let me know when others I used to follow over there have made the leap to Mastodon.
@freemo I think they're pretty popular among the migrating herd.
Most of the "welcome to Mastodon, here's how things work here" posts mention them.
@LouisIngenthron Well the nice thing is they arent just reporting a lot of new followers but they are actually reporting engagement now. Which means those same followers over on twitter were blinded by the algorithm and dont have that issue here. I will take that as a win.
@freemo Agreed. In Twitter, the only real discussions happened in the replies to blue check posts.
That is very much not the case here.
@LouisIngenthron You could be right... I really dont even know how popular those tools are.