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2 years agoCan’t confirm. When I was young and hanging out in online chat rooms, I regarded the others as real and experienced a full range of emotions toward them. They were my acquaintances, friends, crushes, or enemies. Definitely didn’t see them as NPCs. If I had, I would never have had such strong feelings about any of them.
But that’s just me. Others’ mileage may vary.
@the_fuckler
Not necessarily.
There is a count of *active* accounts (i.e. accounts that someone is actually using), so there’s that.
But since nobody on the Fediverse knows who anybody is in real life (except for the few who use their real name), there’s no way to know how many accounts are non-unique.
There could, for example, be one person who actively uses accounts on both Mastodon and Piefed.
@mesamunefire