On ActivityPub people follow me because I'm talking about topics that interest them. I think I'm aware that I don't even share knowledge as much as a consistent feeling of – a sort of motivation to get up and go march for justice, organize for the planet, or something.

On Diaspora* people follow me because they want to genuinely interact with me, we care for each other. You… may have recreated this on this instance? Honestly I don't know how so I don't really know what I'm talking about, but this might solve the issues underlying the TPB conflict (and believe me, I do understand some of these issues) (just like I understand why Facebook have contacted Mastodon admins just when the Reddit migration had begun. Monsters).