Notices by Matt Mascarenhas (miblo@mas.to)

@Funktious @Marie_Ranquet @me We're probably basically the same age. Now you mention it, back on BCUK my circle of friends was actually mostly older than me. And here, there was a poll about this just the other day (that I now can't find), most people are from older generations.

And about being a lurker and holding back from posting, I polled this kind of thing myself: https://mas.to/deck/@miblo/110147513292819066

So maybe there's both a generational and a read-rather-than-write thing going on here.

@Funktious @me Yeah, I wonder if it's similar here to how things were on a small-ish community blogging site I was on years ago (blog.co.uk).

No "algorithm". We'd basically form our own little circle of friends by writing articles, finding other people's blogs in the directory, commenting on each other's articles, joining groups.

Maybe the people who didn't get Mastodon never really had that kind of experience?