The traces of the Great Indian Mastodon Influx of 2019 (GIMI'19) are interesting to look through. In trying to find #Indian folks to follow here, I time and again come across people who came to Mastodon around Nov 2019 (when the Twitter political censorship issues surfaced), stayed around for a month or so, and then left (presumably back to where they came from, having made a symbolic gesture against the censorship).
But even that one month has left an impression here, lots of interesting links to follow, clever #desi jokes, good discussions, it feels like an archaeological discovery of an interesting and intellectual civilization - though of course this was barely a year ago.
It would be loads better if they'd stuck around - I feel a twinge of sadness every time I think "wow this is a cool account to follow", and then see the last post was somewhere in November 2019 - but I'm glad that the GIMI'19 happened at all. It left behind a good bulk of interesting content, and when I do find a live account that someone still uses, it feels like finding buried treasure!
@digital_carver still here! There are a bunch of people that do post here. Not sure of the frequency of posts tho.
For me mastodon is my personal space to share my thoughts and the things I like that I find on the internet.
@bull500 Yeah, I've found and followed a bunch of good posters, it's just the ratio of inactive-to-active people was larger than I expected. It doesn't help that I avoid people who mostly post politics, so that filters out about 3/4ths of the active folks too!
It's still a better experience than I get on most other social media nowadays 🙂
@digital_carver spread the word of mastodon! May more join our clan