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> Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world.

In other words, you've built yourself a tiny echo chamber. The only way you have "zero toxicity" is that the group is exceedingly small or you force group-think.

> (3) I once saw a post from a German IT mag (heise, I think from November 2022) that claimed that they have more traffic through Mastodon than through any other Social Media thingy.

That's not a good thing. It means that the german IT mag has no readers.