@mewmew @ivesen there are dozens of people who have disappeared from my feed over the years, and vice versa. this leads to conversations like "so did you finally leave fedi?" and the other person being "huh?"
and, this is caused by admin actions, because some admins use their admin privilege to enforce their ideology. that's fine, but it means choosing an instance means choosing which fiefdom you want to be part of.
the proprietary services win because there is only one fiefdom.