Post #750696
2026-03-23 21:31 UTC
Replies (36)
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@c_dan4th@mstdn.social 2026-03-23 21:58
For me it’s split between people I knew at university but haven’t seen in decades and people I know and have seen more recently (in the past five years). I think I’m at about three of each.
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@irilyth@mastodon.online 2026-03-23 21:44
@c_dan4th 28/30; the other two are someone I only know from an online game (Button Men), and an author (Daniel Keyes Moran).
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@metasilk@mstdn.social 2026-03-24 01:41
@c_dan4th honestly I didn't count, I am just flinging darts at my memory. ;)
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@AlisonW@fedimon.uk 2026-03-24 01:41
@c_dan4th Interesting. After clicking an option here I went and added up the actual answer. I undercounted!
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@KD3CPY@mastodon.radio 2026-03-24 01:42
@c_dan4th My accounts are hobby related, not real-life-socialization related. Overlap is mostly coincidental (though a little higher for one alt than this one) and I'm more likely to've "met" mutuals in other contexts online.
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@misterdave@tilde.zone 2026-03-24 02:02
@c_dan4th a few here, a bunch across all accounts
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@bryanredeagle@beige.party 2026-03-24 02:03
@c_dan4th I lied. I answered none, and forgot that I follow a few folks from work.
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@LockEx@ioc.exchange 2026-03-24 02:29
@c_dan4th I met two this past weekend at @BSidesSF
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@gnoll110@ruby.social 2026-03-24 02:59
@c_dan4th 'A bunch', but all the meeting was in the before times and in Twitter days.
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@thedoh@hachyderm.io 2026-03-24 03:06
@c_dan4th @renata I have met 60% of the people I follow in person. Granted, I don't follow a great number, but that is by design. :)
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@knizer@toot.boston 2026-03-24 03:09
@c_dan4th I’m in 10+ bracket as I focus on building local community with my account by doing a weekly events thread called #BostonWeekend. You can meet more local mutuals by throwing an irl meetup! It’s easy and still legal, post to your closest city’s tag and get the ball rolling. I’m organizing #bostodon for eastern #masssachusetts on 4/19, come!
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@saramg@fosstodon.org 2026-03-24 03:32
@c_dan4th ISTM this question should have been based on percentages. 10% of 100 versus 100% of 10 are the same absolute number, but an answer to a very different question. Maybe ask both?
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@timjan@social.linux.pizza 2026-03-24 07:26
@c_dan4th 3? But in two of these three cases, it's been many years since I met them (in non-fedi contexts); the third is very inactive, and I haven't told them my RL identity, so they probably don't even know that I am the one who's behind the dandelions.
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@emeline@piaille.fr 2026-03-24 07:35
@c_dan4th they are so many of them I can't count anymore, thanks to biking and "mastaperos" (mastodon aperos)! To think I didn't know any of them a few years ago 🤯
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@fourmiune@mastodon.world 2026-03-24 07:36
@c_dan4th I think they are all bots
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@David@setouchi.social 2026-03-24 07:42
@c_dan4th I met them before they joined, though, not after.
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@tellington@eldritch.cafe 2026-03-24 07:43
@c_dan4th a bunch, but some I followed here after meeting them IRL
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@A_denie@toot.io 2026-03-24 07:53
@c_dan4th to be fair, I only ever met 1 twitter moot. Now tumblrina's...
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@shavounet@piaille.fr 2026-03-24 07:57
@c_dan4th it's more "I've added all friends and coworkers, so it feels nice"
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@mehdi_benadel@mastodon.balamb.fr 2026-03-24 08:46
@c_dan4th I possibly know or have met more than 10 but I cannot check with the app, they are so spread out in my followers ^^
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@thehole@dasforum.org 2026-03-24 09:03
@c_dan4th If I take the people into account I knew before, then lots, otherwise none
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@smeg@assortedflotsam.com 2026-03-24 09:07
@c_dan4th I lurk on a couple coworkers, but when you work fully remote, you never meet IRL
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@lnr@sunny.garden 2026-03-24 09:18
@c_dan4th I think I've met about 20% of the people I follow here. although I had to do a mental double check with some of the people I've known online forever as to whether we were actually ever in the same physical place. Nowhere near all my friends though :)
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@gigabecquerel@chaos.social 2026-03-24 09:19
@c_dan4th "A bunch", but this feels skewed as my local friends got me onto mastodon after twitter went shit, so I started out with 5-10 mutuals from day zero
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social 2026-03-24 09:22
@c_dan4th @purplepadma I went for 4-10, but that’s mostly folk I already knew IRL pre-fedi, and we all came over from Xwitter
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@snail@mstdn.crmbl.uk 2026-03-24 09:31
@c_dan4th I think technically 1, about 30 years ago at a computer fair. The one other mutual I thought I had appears to be on a now dead instance (mastodonapp.uk) and I guess never migrated. Most other people I knew personally from Twitter fled to Bluesky instead. Edit: it appears mastodonapp.uk isn't dead, but I was definitely having issues connecting earlier and the status page suggests it's not complete healthy right now.
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@diazona@techhub.social 2026-03-24 09:34
@c_dan4th All of mine are people I knew in real life first and then found on the Fediverse, which seems like it doesn't quite "count" the same as the other way around.
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@wynke@mendeddrum.org 2026-03-24 09:43
@c_dan4th I checked a while ago and got to a serious majority, with high double digit numbers.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-03-24 09:45
@c_dan4th Some of them are people I met * first IRL and/or * on news:cam.misc * then on Twitter * now here.
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@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr 2026-03-24 09:46
@c_dan4th > 10 but it's not "all my friends"
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@chrisd@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 10:02
@c_dan4th About twenty, but only about seven in the last two years,.most of the rest being "not since university, or at least close".
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@Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social 2026-03-24 10:26
@c_dan4th Oh, lots and lots. And even more from the old Twitter days too. It is the best! It's like my past experience of internet dating. It is better and safer to meet people you have already had a long dialogue with, have seen their dialogues with others, have seen their views on things, have some long experience of just knowing them, than meeting some rando in a pub, under the influence of alcohol, or being forced together due to a tenuous work/sports ball connection, or living in the same street, or a dubious introduction from a passing acquaintance.
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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot 2026-03-24 11:05
@c_dan4th I'm married to one of my mutuals, which is a bit of a cheat.
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@matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi 2026-03-24 11:18
@c_dan4th It's either none or one. There's one fedi user that I've been in sauna together, and we we have talked but I guess the other one doesn't know it was me. And a couple of ones I've seen outside, but there hasn't been any IRL interaction between us.
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@ada@blahaj.zone 2026-03-24 06:51
@c_dan4th@mstdn.social I've met way more than 10 mutuals, but some of them didn't become mutuals until after we'd met :P
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@sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online 2026-03-24 11:53
@c_dan4th@mstdn.social I have rather more than 10 friends and acquaintances, and though a regrettably small proportion are on Fedi, I ran out of fingers and toes on which to count those who are. An idea occurs! A new reading list, entitled People_I_know_IRL. :-)