Post by @liztai@hachyderm.io

2026-08-23 02:38 UTC

This is going to be the hill I die on: a small number of social media followers is better than a large number of social media followers. This is especially true if your small number of followers know you or have met up with you in real life. This has been my experience over the last few decades of my life. I feel that social media is just better if it's small-scale rather than big. When your community becomes too big, you hardly know them, and they probably don't even have much of a connection with you. How do you know a million people anyway? But it is much easier to know at least 50 people in a following of 100. #socialmedia #mastodon

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@edsanders2@mstdn.social 2026-08-23 11:37

@liztai@hachyderm.io There’s a lot of truth in this, but don’t dismiss the flipside, the people who get to “know” you. They may not really know you, of course, but they hear your voice and it makes a difference in their lives. I don’t know @stux@mstdn.social , or @gwynnion@mastodon.social , or @Rachelburch@mastodon.social but I’m certainly glad to have met them (and many others) here

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@jonahgibberish@kolektiva.social 2026-08-23 05:22

@liztai@hachyderm.io there was a study comparing brain size in wild primates and the size of their familial/social groups and they found some correlation, in that the larger the brain the larger the group that an individual could have functional relationships with each other member of the group. If i recall correctly there extrapolation for how human brains compared to the other primates, it worked out to be around 100 people

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@rishidass@mastodon.social 2026-08-23 07:58

@liztai@hachyderm.io 💯 It’s the quality of the engagement that matters. 🙂

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