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Scale isn't the whole story. The most noticeable thing for me on fedi was that people actually saw my posts and interacted with them. All the DAU on Twitter doe
by mal-2 3y ago
Scale isn't the whole story. The most noticeable thing for me on fedi was that people actually saw my posts and interacted with them. All the DAU on Twitter doesn't matter when you need to pass the Great Filter of the algorithm to get seen. Every post I made on Twitter got almost no engagement, and my friends who followed me would tell me they never saw it. Instead my timeline was full of influencers, bots, and that week's outrage.
On fedi I feel like I have a small community who engages with my posts. I think that's what people want, even a few hundred followers is enough to feel heard. I can control my own timeline and find content I want. It really doesn't matter if it's only 1% the size of Twitter because my timeline is leagues better.
- Hamuko 3y ago>The most noticeable thing for me on fedi was that people actually saw my posts How do you know that people saw your posts on Mastodon?
- mal-2 3y agoReplies, boosts, likes, follow requests.
- BeefWellington 3y agoEngagement on Mastodon is simply higher quality IME as well. Whether it's an "Eternal September" thing or not that Mastodon hasn't hit yet remains to be seen. It really reminds me of modern social media meets older school internet (IRC & web forums days).
- tedivm 3y agoI posted on the #fedihire tag and got an amazing response, and then a job. My twitter engagement was basically a single "like" and then nothing.
- vidarh 3y agoI have about 100x as many followers on my biggest twitter account as on my Mastodon, and yet typically get more engagement on Mastodon... Much of it down to the algo, but also, I suspect simply churn: A whole lot of followers who are now longer active. My Mastodon account hasn't had time to accrue many of those so far.