@lucifargundam
Well you would think so... and trying to be fair in and less bias in this post I just see a few very good people really going for it and so wonder about it... sometimes things can work driving hard or doing the opposite or helps to see why...

What I've summarised from talks is that there are more obvious tangible people 'over there' so it can feel more effective or the good work to try and fetch or 'bring people over to the othe side'... which does seem possible (while sacrificing almost your own principles in order to gain something else which is +/- in overall reward and hard to measure...) but yeah I can definitely see that while in some cases (or arguable most, and often most of one's post) doesn't work (at least in the moment or is demoted / almost muted in algorithms amplification / filtering) so it can give those people false look that it's online even if people do or don't see it --->(it's my bias that it's false feedback or the signals where it might look and feel good is there but it's still not really working).
I mean they also wouldn't let that happen right! Systems are quite tight nowadays..,. if they saw even 1% crossing over they would make some excuse for it, after all it's their bizness/money people are messing with not going to just take it (and so my thoughts are also it's ineffective or people get kicked and go back)

So people can just end up listening to you 'over there' and not on Mastodon... and not really changing (it's like people reading the next bad thing endlessly)

Real conversion needs measuring

I think people who sacrifice themselves consistently think this crossing to the other side is needed / warranted... and almost in physical analogy I could imagine it if it was a quick process like rescuing someone from water / stealing people back / kidnapping / converting / educating etc... but yeah I'd like to really know personally / keep a chalk board of how many exactly message me after getting an account on Mastodon and seeing the Twitter / Facebook / insta deleted!!!! Otherwise really it's more than likely not working.

I trust the speed of ignorance (from people generally if there are already there and attached to friends and family) and also how strong their computers are tracking people and even a problem person like tracing people back to their nests... which doesn't help with a flag saying YOU ARE BAD! lol... perhaps a bit naive and gestural (which work to get an individual mad, but big company probably not).

I'm not speaking for everyone here but if it could be easy for them to analyse or personal chalk up then I'd backup some sacrificing people to absorb the damage... but without that kind of robust stat or person observing it is less sensible... also giving the game away too early / showing flags...

In short I'm trying to look at it objectively :)

Oh yeah I was going to mention other false-positives from perspective of person 'using the system against itself@, sorry- here a list and website link:

http://freeschool.0id.org/using-the-system-against-itself/

--->I reach a lot of people" (could be true but conversion is important

--->"If we don't use their system then how will they know about it"
(there are other ways to hunt someone, arguably the short cut is really to easy and we have to bear our cross door to door / email / our own website / or somehow (any suggestion - it is looking thin on our side though 1 person is still one for sure versus 1 from maybe 100 on Twitter / FB and them immediately signing up an account but then still going back to it realising 'nobody' is here / still not breaking the will they need to have)

---> (some more reasons I'm sure I've wrote online but you get the idea / probably heard them)