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I looked at your feed and it's obvious why your interaction is low: you're not tagging your posts. The interaction model on Mastodon is perhaps inverted from X

I looked at your feed and it's obvious why your interaction is low: you're not tagging your posts. The interaction model on Mastodon is perhaps inverted from X, FB, IG, and so on. On those platforms, it makes sense to follow handles; those platforms are creator focused. On Mastodon, it makes sense to follow tags first ("the community") and then follow interesting people in those communities. Scanning all of your posts, only the most recent one has a tag (#buildinpublic) while the rest are just text. This means that your content won't reach into the home feeds of folks who share common interests. Your June 8 post on Apple's stock value: you might have seen better engagement with simply using the #apple tag. Your Nov 19, 2022 post should be tagged with #css, #html, maybe #webdev. If you don't tag your posts, they won't show up in any home feeds and because the feed is linear in time, they won't have much visibility. Try better usage of tags and see how you do.

singpolyma3 3y ago
Hard disagree. Following anything other than people whose content you actually want to see breaks the model completely.
- CharlieDigital 3y ago
  This is kind of a narrow view isn't it? Do you follow people on Reddit or do you follow communities? I make no claims of whether one model is superior to another; only an observation that on Mastodon, one model will yield better results than the other if what you seek is engagement. Mastodon -- at least for now -- is topic-oriented rather than creator-oriented.
  - r0uv3n 3y ago
    For me the point is that either I curate aggressively by only following people I trust will post interesting stuff or I follow topics on a platform with a solid recommendation algorithm (this doesn't even need to be adapted to my personal usage patterns, it could just be intelligent interaction based sorting of the posts landing in my feed). E.g. I would never use the /new feed across all my subreddits for example, simply because it would show me way too much irrelevant / low quality content. The same is true to some extent when following hashtags on Mastodon.
  - pixelle3d 3y ago
    I find mastodon to EASILY be the best format for microblogging. I have 100% total control over the content on my feed. No nonsense algorithms. I can follow any hashtags or people as I see fit. It’s truly an amazing platform. Twitter is garbage.
  - singpolyma3 3y ago
    If you follow topics like this you're inviting all kinds of moderation problems, etc, by seeing content from people you don't know. Microblogging (well, all blogging) was perfectly designed not to have these issues by you seeing only feeds you subscribe to.
asutekku 3y ago
That feels like a system that works only on a low-volume platforms. If I were to follow #apple tag on Twitter, my feed would update every single second.
- rglullis 3y ago
  That falls into "good problems to have" territory. A platform where following a (relatively) popular simple tag means "you will get flooded" is also the one where you can have similar engagement numbers/followers as Twitter does today.

singpolyma3 3y ago

Hard disagree. Following anything other than people whose content you actually want to see breaks the model completely.

CharlieDigital 3y ago
This is kind of a narrow view isn't it? Do you follow people on Reddit or do you follow communities? I make no claims of whether one model is superior to another; only an observation that on Mastodon, one model will yield better results than the other if what you seek is engagement. Mastodon -- at least for now -- is topic-oriented rather than creator-oriented.
- r0uv3n 3y ago
  For me the point is that either I curate aggressively by only following people I trust will post interesting stuff or I follow topics on a platform with a solid recommendation algorithm (this doesn't even need to be adapted to my personal usage patterns, it could just be intelligent interaction based sorting of the posts landing in my feed). E.g. I would never use the /new feed across all my subreddits for example, simply because it would show me way too much irrelevant / low quality content. The same is true to some extent when following hashtags on Mastodon.
- pixelle3d 3y ago
  I find mastodon to EASILY be the best format for microblogging. I have 100% total control over the content on my feed. No nonsense algorithms. I can follow any hashtags or people as I see fit. It’s truly an amazing platform. Twitter is garbage.
- singpolyma3 3y ago
  If you follow topics like this you're inviting all kinds of moderation problems, etc, by seeing content from people you don't know. Microblogging (well, all blogging) was perfectly designed not to have these issues by you seeing only feeds you subscribe to.

asutekku 3y ago

That feels like a system that works only on a low-volume platforms. If I were to follow #apple tag on Twitter, my feed would update every single second.

rglullis 3y ago
That falls into "good problems to have" territory. A platform where following a (relatively) popular simple tag means "you will get flooded" is also the one where you can have similar engagement numbers/followers as Twitter does today.