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I noticed recently that I get more engagement on Mastodon than Twitter. It shifted in the last couple months as I have been posting to both the same content.
by bhouston 3y ago
I noticed recently that I get more engagement on Mastodon than Twitter. It shifted in the last couple months as I have been posting to both the same content.
- Havoc 3y agoIs the quality of the engagement better?
- realitythreek 3y agoThat’s a pretty low bar, the comparison is to Twitter.
- bhouston 3y agoIt isn’t worse on Mastodon. I am not sure it is objectively better.
- lmedinas 3y agoi think so because on Twitter you can always get some randomness due to the algorithm and someone might reply if your Tweet appeared on the "For You" tab. On Mastodon this "randomness" has way less probablity to happen unless you use hashtags and someone finds the Toot through the hashtag. Quality of interactions apart, the randomness of Twitter is one of the things i miss on Mastodon.
- vidarh 3y agoSimilar, but I think that is natural at this point. My main account has 100x as many followers on Twitter, but accumulated over many years, and I suspect a fairly substantial number are bots and/or accounts that are now rarely in use, combined with the algo pushing a culture of just following huge numbers of people which may never surface for you in the feed anyway. If we trust the view counts on Twitter, the average tweet gets seen by just a tiny fraction of my followers. On Mastodon, meanwhile, a very substantial proportion of my followers actively engage, and about half has shown "signs of life" (post, like, boost) in the last week or so. That said, this will change as accounts age and slowly get abandoned there too, so it will take a long time before we see if there's a qualitative difference.
- JdeBP 3y agoI've seen several make the same observation, after testing, over the past six or so months.