Cleaning up my Twitter presence with a view to locking my account, and I've realised just how many people I follow who I *never see* in my timeline.
While the purely chronological timeline on Mastadon may bother some people, at least there is a better chance of me seeing your posts!
It had gotten so bad on my timeline that I had to made a little spreadsheet of favourite accounts to check every few days because I'd rarely see them on my TL despite plenty of engagement and everything the algos are supposed to factor in when they serve you up content
Yeah! The time zone difference was another issue since I'd miss out on a lot of discourse. But that would also depend on my N24 sleep cycle because it migrates around a lot.
As for the spreadsheet, yes, I might because quite a few of my mutuals are still on the bird app, right now I've mostly got both feet and each boat just incase because I'm not sure how things are going to go from here on.
If most of them make the move to the Fediverse, then I can probably do away with it, but if it ends up being a 50/50 ish split, I might use both platforms if only to stay in the loop on discourse.
Fortunately, most of our neuro mutuals are on here now so that's something. But most of my evo.devo. and psychology mutuals are still reluctant to make the move, especially those with large followings.
But honestly a lot of props to @NicoleCRust for facilitating much of the transitition for a lot of people by way of boosting intros here and spreading the word on there. Her mastodon TL alone helped connect with most of our neuro mutuals, especially since it's trawling for profiles is a little finnicky here, especially across multiple server instances.
@aazad absolutely, I feel your pain. The time difference here doesn't help either, tbh - I have zero idea what my overseas feed is tweeting during the night, and because I'm not awake to interact they never show up. Of course there's always the Latest Tweets option, but I've never trusted them to show me everything. Will you keep your spreadsheet now you're here? 🤗