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Can't believe he missed this crucial factor. He tweeted his mastodon link that got 44 retweets. He talked about mastodon (no link) and got another 59 retweets
by ergocoder 4y ago
Can't believe he missed this crucial factor.
He tweeted his mastodon link that got 44 retweets.
He talked about mastodon (no link) and got another 59 retweets.
He also put mastodon link on his profile.
I mean those should help build his followers on mastodon by a large margin.
- simonw 4y agoSure, there are a ton of reasons I've been able to grow my audience on Mastodon this quickly. But despite those reasons, the activity this represents still works as a counter to the claim I was replying to here that "no one is switching to Mastodon".
- throwaway290 4y agoI think the number of follows does not represent the number of actual readers. E.g. I know you from your long-form posts on Django and such, and considering current buzz might log in to Mastodon just to give you a follow and go back to never checking it. That, plus Mastodon does not benefit from central spam account squashing authority. Of course, the discrepancy of follower/actual reader numbers also exists in case of Twitter, but if I had to bet I'd say it has the potential to be stronger on Mastodon.
- ergocoder 4y ago"tons of reasons" Let's not kid ourselves. You are already famous with followers. That is the biggest reason you can grow followers quickly on Mastodon. I had Mastodon and tweeted about it too. And I have 5 followers compared to 200 something followers on twitter.