The other day I was thinking about some of the people who I used to follow in the old blue bird site. A few of them did open accounts here on Mastodon, mostly because it was "trendy" at that time, but most (of those few) eventually left their accounts to rot. A lot of people from the old site just eventually ended up in Bluesky, but they are not even bridging here (I even asked, they ignored me).
Whatever their reasoning was, they lost followers one way or another, for sure. And now I have met new people, I have been following them, and some of those are following me back, which was unthinkable in the old site.
Time flies when we're having fun, and the past just becomes a blur.