Jesus, what's with all the followbots? Do I have to block these here too? I like clean numbers. Actual humans.

@annatarkov right?! I already feel somewhat violated.

@ant Apparently some are so that they can populate the timelines of remote instances that don't have many people on them.

@annatarkov I tooted (gonna take some time getting used to that term...) to a moderator about blocking or reporting them or what the process is. Fingers crossed!

@ant I don't think you have to do either though. You could just ignore them.

@annatarkov yes good point. I just didn't know how clean they were trying to keep things. Mastadon seems to rely more on community for stuff like that. Almost like a forum.

@ant No one is trying to "keep things" any one way I think. That's the point of a decentralized network.

@annatarkov yes, thats kind of nice and gives more of a true "community" feel as opposed to the pseudo-community feel of other networks... (cough) Twitter

@ant I have a community on Twitter too though. I've been there since 2008. I've cycled through more than one community at this point :)

@annatarkov i've been on Twitter since about then too. I've not been active since before the election last year. Too much hate & vitriol for my liking.

What brought you to Mastadon? Have you completely abandoned Twitter?

@ant I will unfortunately never be able to abandon Twitter unless the people I interact with there abandon it as well. What brought me here? Curiosity I guess. I tend to try these things out. I was on App.net, Ello, Peach. I like the idea of something decentralized. I like to get to know new people. Etc.