I’m curious.

[irilyth@mastodon.online]

@c_dan4th 28/30; the other two are someone I only know from an online game (Button Men), and an author (Daniel Keyes Moran).

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@irilyth Interesting! I guess that would be another good question of “who do you consider your on-line friends”.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

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.

[irilyth@mastodon.online]

@c_dan4th I feel like social media has always been a way for me to keep in touch with IRL friends, going way back to the LiveJournal days. I didn't join interest groups or follow people who seemed neat, it was all about people I knew (or once in a while, friends of friends). Dreamwidth, Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, and Mastodon, are (or were) all like that for me. The main category of exception are authors who I like and want to hear about it when they write something new. :^ )

[dawne314@mas.to]

@irilyth @c_dan4th Ironically I was gonna say only 1 or 2 but turns out, I also know Josh IRL! Hi Josh! ️

[irilyth@mastodon.online]

@dawne314 @c_dan4th Ha, wow, hi! How do you two know each other? (Dawn and I know each other from volleyball, way back when; Charles and I know each other from college, even more way back when. :^ )

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@irilyth @dawne314 I have no idea how we know each other. Probably astronomy stuff. It’s not a big community.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@irilyth I had rules around each of my social medias. FB was only people I knew IRL. Twitter was anyone I’d interacted win in some interesting way. Mastodon seems to trend more to the latter now that I’m not on either of the others.

[irilyth@mastodon.online]

@c_dan4th Yeah, I have a rule like that for LinkedIn, which is nominally supposed to be for work connections, but I didn't always stick to it strictly.

[dawne314@mas.to]

@c_dan4th @irilyth We’ve never met in real life but if I remember correctly, we have a lot of mutual Colorado/astronomy friends

[alisonw@fedimon.uk]

@c_dan4th
Interesting. After clicking an option here I went and added up the actual answer. I undercounted!

[metasilk@mstdn.social]

@c_dan4th honestly I didn't count, I am just flinging darts at my memory.

[kd3cpy@mastodon.radio]

@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.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@dawne314 @irilyth Cool, well, it’s good to know you anyway!

[misterdave@tilde.zone]

@c_dan4th a few here, a bunch across all accounts

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@irilyth For LI, I have to have actually worked with or know the person. And I avoid it mostly.

For Strava, it’s anyone I’ve run/biked/whatever with, or people I particularly want to give encouragement to. And a few random people in my area who do interesting things.

[bryanredeagle@beige.party]

@c_dan4th I lied. I answered none, and forgot that I follow a few folks from work.

[lockex@ioc.exchange]

@c_dan4th I met two this past weekend at @BSidesSF

[gnoll110@ruby.social]

@c_dan4th

'A bunch', but all the meeting was in the before times and in Twitter days.

[thedoh@hachyderm.io]

@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.