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This doesn’t make sense. A good portion of your engagement is going to come from people who are familiar with you, whether they be friends or “followers”. A ton
by mym1990 3y ago
This doesn’t make sense. A good portion of your engagement is going to come from people who are familiar with you, whether they be friends or “followers”. A ton of my old high school friends(accounts must be 10-15 years old now) still post on FB, to my surprise, as they start families or new jobs or whatnot.
On top of this, it is much more likely that a new account or follower is a bot nowadays.
- furyofantares 3y agoMaybe the bot point is true, I don't know. Sure a ton of your old friends still post on FB, it's still very popular. But I'm sure a ton don't. They still count in the follower count of anyone they followed. And the ones who still post on FB have had a decade of following things but still only have one person's worth of attention; they're not engaging everyone they followed. A new Mastodon follower, by comparison, is very likely to still be logging in and engaging with you, given they just chose to engage with you by logging in and following. And they don't have 10 years worth of other accounts they've followed vying for their attention on that platform.