I have unfollowed most of the bird.makeup accounts. bird.makeup is a fantastic service, and was very useful when the ex-Twitter exodus (or should I rather call it #Xodus, haha) was just beginning.
Since then, most of the accounts seem to have either disappeared, or stopped posting completely and even deleted all their posts, leaving their accounts empty. The most notable case for me is the one of #Radiohead, where they actually announced they were leaving the platform, yet I somehow missed their announcement (link to the post on my instance). There are still some large accounts, accounts of big institutions for example (let's say @nato ) that are still active there - I'm still following these. However, accounts that are not so big, seem to have moved on.
The most obvious choice of them was #Bluesky, which was useful for me to follow various quite large bands like #PearlJam or #TheCure - as Friendica has a Bluesky plugin which allows you to scout into that network natively.
Then, some moved to #Threads or even #Mastodon (although not all accounts could be followed on the former via ActivityPub, and out of the few who moved on the latter, they chose to keep their accounts dormant after a while for some reason).
But many of them just winded down their X account, keeping their activity on other platforms where they were already established, namely on #Facebook and #Instagram most of the time.
kilogram.makeup is a tool created by the same devs as bird.makeup, with the purpose of bridging ActivityPub with Instagram. I started to use it and I'm now following dozens of these accounts, whose pages I used to "like" (a.k.a. follow) back on Facebook. I went through my follow list and unfollowed any X accounts that didn't seem to have any post left, only to follow them back on Instagram (all via the aforementioned bridges). As such, I am now at almost half the accounts I was following back then on bird.makeup, while the follow count on kilogram.makeup is now, for me, 3 pages long.
I hope the devs will put more effort into it.
All in all, together with #rssbridge, this helped me follow pretty much all I was following on Facebook and reach a nice number of over 1100 accounts followed 🙂
Who said that Fedi was too quiet?
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