I’m curious.

[niavy@masto.bike]

@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.
@LegalizeBrain

[emeline@piaille.fr]

@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 🤯

[fourmiune@mastodon.world]

@c_dan4th

I think they are all bots

[david@setouchi.social]

@c_dan4th I met them before they joined, though, not after.

[tellington@eldritch.cafe]

@c_dan4th a bunch, but some I followed here after meeting them IRL

[a_denie@toot.io]

@c_dan4th to be fair, I only ever met 1 twitter moot. Now tumblrina's...

[shavounet@piaille.fr]

@c_dan4th it's more "I've added all friends and coworkers, so it feels nice"

[mehdi_benadel@mastodon.balamb.fr]

@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 ^^

[thehole@dasforum.org]

@c_dan4th If I take the people into account I knew before, then lots, otherwise none

[lnr@sunny.garden]

@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

[gigabecquerel@chaos.social]

@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

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@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

[snail@mstdn.crmbl.uk]

@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.

[diazona@techhub.social]

@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.

[wynke@mendeddrum.org]

@c_dan4th I checked a while ago and got to a serious majority, with high double digit numbers.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@c_dan4th Some of them are people I met

* first IRL and/or
* on news:cam.misc
* then on Twitter
* now here.

[bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr]

@c_dan4th > 10 but it's not "all my friends"

[wynke@mendeddrum.org]

@c_dan4th That is, 50+. And that is no longer a majority but that's because I added more people.

[daycoder@toot.wales]

@snail @c_dan4th this is almost exactly my answer. Except the dead instance thing. The computer fair was maybe 25 years ago, not 30.

[chrisd@mastodon.social]

@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".