I’m curious.
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@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?
@saramg Lots of possible ways this could have gone. It would be nice to have more than four options as well, but that’s a limit to my instance.
I’m mostly interested in the conversations that this has been sparking. I have met more of my mutuals than I’d remembered!
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@c_dan4th I lied. I answered none, and forgot that I follow a few folks from work.
@bryanredeagle I’m both jealous that you have coworkers on Fedi and relieved that I don’t have any coworkers on Fedi.
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@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

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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@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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@c_dan4th
Met half a dozen over the 3 years here, then met about a dozen more last year when I went to Paris for a TV show.
Plus 2 or 3 I received snail mail from.
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@c_dan4th they are so many of them I can't count anymore, thanks to biking and "mastaperos" (mastodon aperos)!
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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I think they are all bots
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th I met them before they joined, though, not after.
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th a bunch, but some I followed here after meeting them IRL
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th to be fair, I only ever met 1 twitter moot. Now tumblrina's...
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th it's more "I've added all friends and coworkers, so it feels nice"
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@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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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th If I take the people into account I knew before, then lots, otherwise none
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@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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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@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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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@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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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th i think technically 1, about 30 years ago at a computer fair.
The one other mutual i thought i had appeares 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.
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@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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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th I checked a while ago and got to a serious majority, with high double digit numbers.
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I’m curious. How many of your Fedi mutuals have you actually met IRL?
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@c_dan4th Some of them are people I met
* first IRL and/or
* on news:cam.misc
* then on Twitter
* now here.