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It might not be for everyone, but I'm posting more on social media than ever and seeing more engagement than ever... it's on the fediverse where smaller and saf

by buro9 3y ago

It might not be for everyone, but I'm posting more on social media than ever and seeing more engagement than ever... it's on the fediverse where smaller and safer communities are leading to much higher valuable engagement. I'm also finding it a lot more common for people to have multiple profiles / personas... the social one, the work one, the furry one, whatever is how you want to present yourself and to whom, without needing to try and contort yourself to be everything to everyone.

BrotherBisquick 3y ago
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anonzzzies 3y ago
Where are you posting? I find so little quality content.
- orwin 3y ago
  One feed I used to use Twitter for: https://infosec.exchange/public/local https://infosec.exchange/public/local (I never was a fan of Twitter, and I use mastodon like I use Twitter : only when I'm bored, every months or so). You have to find a feed/subreddit that interest you. Hell, I even spend more time on stackexchange than I do on YouTube now. It's about niche, and small communities, where read is free but write not so much.
- lexicality 3y ago
  If they post it publicly then it won't be small and close-knit any more
rpastuszak 3y ago
>I'm posting more on social media than ever and seeing more engagement than ever... it's on the fediverse where smaller and safer communities are leading to much higher valuable engagement. Precisely, it's signal vs. noise imo. There's an illusion that with more viewers you're more likely to find interesting people, but in practice it's mostly a distraction.
jug 3y ago
Yes it's striking how much smaller user base Mastodon has yet better engagement than Twitter.
pxmpxm 3y ago
Seems like the majority of mastodon content is mastodon enthusiasts posting about how good it is to post on mastodon... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rembrandt-Wolpert/publication/331311077/figure/fig6/AS:729731716636673@1550993007689/Penrose-stairs-or-M-C-Eschers-Ascending-and-descending-lithograph-of-1960.jpg https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rembrandt-Wolpert/publi...
- dahwolf 3y ago
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- rsolva 3y ago
  This was true for a couple of years, but lately, at least in my little part of the Fediverse, we have moved past the meta-talk.
- CM30 3y ago
  Nah that's more like Threads now. Though that's quietened down enough that the 'this is so much nicer/better than Twitter' talk has at least calmed down a tad.
seydor 3y ago
TBH i don't get the point of mastodon. Social media is primarily "media", broadcasting, so they must be megaphones, which by necessity includes large scale commercial and entertainment activity. Mastodon's purpose of small cozy chats is better served by ... chat which is more self-selective and fit for the niches or countercultures
- NikkiA 3y ago
  A full on chat program is more of an active pastime, whereas mastodon I choose to browse now and then throughout the day, and don't expect replies or reactions to be necessarily the same day, just 'whenever'. Perhaps that's why it skews so Gen-X older.
- neogodless 3y ago
  > large scale commercial and entertainment activity I think you're redefining "social media" (which I think was previously called "social networking" once upon a time) as "broadcasting" and "megaphones" so naturally your definition doesn't fit. But socializing online is about sharing information, interests, and building a (small, or the size you prefer) network of people you consider online friends. Discord does seem to work well for chatting about those same things with the people I know, and I can easily see how others use it for the same usage but with online-only friends. But whenever I visit my corner of the fediverse, I see lots of like-minded people sharing content that's relevant to me (the hashtags I follow), and I've engaged and enjoyed the experience. There was and is no reason why any of that requires "large scale commercial and entertainment activity", and, in fact, those things seem antithetical to building up a community of people you want to communicate with online about your interests.
  - seydor 3y ago
    Whatever starts as 'social networking' i think it is inevitable that it will end up becoming 'social media', because people add friends but don't delete, and by the central limit theorem users will become average, that can easily be substituted by an ML model. Even if mastodon is OK now, it will end up with the same situation as it grows. I still prefer when the world was divided in forums, not friend groups.

by buro9 3y ago

BrotherBisquick 3y ago

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anonzzzies 3y ago

Where are you posting? I find so little quality content.

orwin 3y ago
One feed I used to use Twitter for: https://infosec.exchange/public/local https://infosec.exchange/public/local (I never was a fan of Twitter, and I use mastodon like I use Twitter : only when I'm bored, every months or so). You have to find a feed/subreddit that interest you. Hell, I even spend more time on stackexchange than I do on YouTube now. It's about niche, and small communities, where read is free but write not so much.
lexicality 3y ago
If they post it publicly then it won't be small and close-knit any more

rpastuszak 3y ago

>I'm posting more on social media than ever and seeing more engagement than ever... it's on the fediverse where smaller and safer communities are leading to much higher valuable engagement. Precisely, it's signal vs. noise imo. There's an illusion that with more viewers you're more likely to find interesting people, but in practice it's mostly a distraction.

jug 3y ago

Yes it's striking how much smaller user base Mastodon has yet better engagement than Twitter.

pxmpxm 3y ago

Seems like the majority of mastodon content is mastodon enthusiasts posting about how good it is to post on mastodon... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rembrandt-Wolpert/publication/331311077/figure/fig6/AS:729731716636673@1550993007689/Penrose-stairs-or-M-C-Eschers-Ascending-and-descending-lithograph-of-1960.jpg https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rembrandt-Wolpert/publi...

dahwolf 3y ago
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rsolva 3y ago
This was true for a couple of years, but lately, at least in my little part of the Fediverse, we have moved past the meta-talk.
CM30 3y ago
Nah that's more like Threads now. Though that's quietened down enough that the 'this is so much nicer/better than Twitter' talk has at least calmed down a tad.

seydor 3y ago

TBH i don't get the point of mastodon. Social media is primarily "media", broadcasting, so they must be megaphones, which by necessity includes large scale commercial and entertainment activity. Mastodon's purpose of small cozy chats is better served by ... chat which is more self-selective and fit for the niches or countercultures

NikkiA 3y ago
A full on chat program is more of an active pastime, whereas mastodon I choose to browse now and then throughout the day, and don't expect replies or reactions to be necessarily the same day, just 'whenever'. Perhaps that's why it skews so Gen-X older.
neogodless 3y ago
> large scale commercial and entertainment activity I think you're redefining "social media" (which I think was previously called "social networking" once upon a time) as "broadcasting" and "megaphones" so naturally your definition doesn't fit. But socializing online is about sharing information, interests, and building a (small, or the size you prefer) network of people you consider online friends. Discord does seem to work well for chatting about those same things with the people I know, and I can easily see how others use it for the same usage but with online-only friends. But whenever I visit my corner of the fediverse, I see lots of like-minded people sharing content that's relevant to me (the hashtags I follow), and I've engaged and enjoyed the experience. There was and is no reason why any of that requires "large scale commercial and entertainment activity", and, in fact, those things seem antithetical to building up a community of people you want to communicate with online about your interests.
- seydor 3y ago
  Whatever starts as 'social networking' i think it is inevitable that it will end up becoming 'social media', because people add friends but don't delete, and by the central limit theorem users will become average, that can easily be substituted by an ML model. Even if mastodon is OK now, it will end up with the same situation as it grows. I still prefer when the world was divided in forums, not friend groups.