A tale of two online spaces.
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A tale of two online spaces.
One: by the people for the people, with chronological feeds.
The other: funded by crypto bros and with pick-your-algorithm feeds.
I shared the exact same content.
Genuine interactions in the first place.
A grand total of ZERO reactions in the other - even if I have real life friends and contacts there.
Is the second place hiding my posts to 1100+ followers? It feels like I'm screaming into the void.
Guess which place I like best & which one I plan to abandon?
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A tale of two online spaces.
One: by the people for the people, with chronological feeds.
The other: funded by crypto bros and with pick-your-algorithm feeds.
I shared the exact same content.
Genuine interactions in the first place.
A grand total of ZERO reactions in the other - even if I have real life friends and contacts there.
Is the second place hiding my posts to 1100+ followers? It feels like I'm screaming into the void.
Guess which place I like best & which one I plan to abandon?
This is my experience as well. Mastodon has far more people interacting with posts than either Bluesky or Threads combined!
I cross-post a lot via Fedica, and the amount of interactions I get on either of the two tech-bro platforms are nearly non-existant compared to here 😁
Not to say Mastodon doesn't have issues - one glaring one is .social starting to centralise Mastodon on 1 server due to it's sheer size, and the refusal of the gmbh to vary the sign-up server on joinmastodon.com.
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This is my experience as well. Mastodon has far more people interacting with posts than either Bluesky or Threads combined!
I cross-post a lot via Fedica, and the amount of interactions I get on either of the two tech-bro platforms are nearly non-existant compared to here 😁
Not to say Mastodon doesn't have issues - one glaring one is .social starting to centralise Mastodon on 1 server due to it's sheer size, and the refusal of the gmbh to vary the sign-up server on joinmastodon.com.
@_elena Currently around 30% of the entire population of the fediverse is on one single server, which is a problem now and will become even more of a problem as time goes on.
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This is my experience as well. Mastodon has far more people interacting with posts than either Bluesky or Threads combined!
I cross-post a lot via Fedica, and the amount of interactions I get on either of the two tech-bro platforms are nearly non-existant compared to here 😁
Not to say Mastodon doesn't have issues - one glaring one is .social starting to centralise Mastodon on 1 server due to it's sheer size, and the refusal of the gmbh to vary the sign-up server on joinmastodon.com.
@Sar yeah I was only posting links to my blog posts on Bluesky... but what's the point if nobody ever sees them?
It's particularly shocking given the audience size - 1100+ followers and zero reactions? Not worth wasting my time there to be honest... I'll stick to doing POSSE on the Fediverse 🤗
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@_elena Currently around 30% of the entire population of the fediverse is on one single server, which is a problem now and will become even more of a problem as time goes on.
@Sar agree but in contrast on the Fediverse one could set up a self-hosted instance in minutes and move there... For as little as 5 Euros a month... whereas on Bluesky I wouldn't even know how to get started and costs could be far far higher
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@Sar yeah I was only posting links to my blog posts on Bluesky... but what's the point if nobody ever sees them?
It's particularly shocking given the audience size - 1100+ followers and zero reactions? Not worth wasting my time there to be honest... I'll stick to doing POSSE on the Fediverse 🤗
@_elena Yep, precisely. I'll carry on posting to Bsky & threads as it's no different to just posting here when using fedica, but 99% of my time spent posting replies, or boosting posts is done now on Mastodon.
And I'm quite happy about that, because Mastodon, despite its issues, is the vastly superior platform of the three 😀
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@_elena Yep, precisely. I'll carry on posting to Bsky & threads as it's no different to just posting here when using fedica, but 99% of my time spent posting replies, or boosting posts is done now on Mastodon.
And I'm quite happy about that, because Mastodon, despite its issues, is the vastly superior platform of the three 😀
@Sar 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌
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A tale of two online spaces.
One: by the people for the people, with chronological feeds.
The other: funded by crypto bros and with pick-your-algorithm feeds.
I shared the exact same content.
Genuine interactions in the first place.
A grand total of ZERO reactions in the other - even if I have real life friends and contacts there.
Is the second place hiding my posts to 1100+ followers? It feels like I'm screaming into the void.
Guess which place I like best & which one I plan to abandon?
As your post on BlueSky is an "advertisment" for a concurrent network, I am not sure that the Algorithm pushes it......
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As your post on BlueSky is an "advertisment" for a concurrent network, I am not sure that the Algorithm pushes it......
@tanavit actually nobody ever sees any of my posts on Bluesky. Even monthly updates of what I'm up to, where the title is super vanilla and innocuous
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As your post on BlueSky is an "advertisment" for a concurrent network, I am not sure that the Algorithm pushes it......
@tanavit @_elena Yep, I think corp socials are starting to feel the threat. I very rarely post on Facebook and only log on once in many months, mostly to verify there’s no impersonation happening, but because of that I usually get quite a lot of activity on those rare posts… until I used one to encourage people to check out the fediverse. Suddenly it was crickets.
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A tale of two online spaces.
One: by the people for the people, with chronological feeds.
The other: funded by crypto bros and with pick-your-algorithm feeds.
I shared the exact same content.
Genuine interactions in the first place.
A grand total of ZERO reactions in the other - even if I have real life friends and contacts there.
Is the second place hiding my posts to 1100+ followers? It feels like I'm screaming into the void.
Guess which place I like best & which one I plan to abandon?
@_elena contrarian here, but I really like Bluesky and get substantial interaction there as well as find far more content that is of interest.
I love the community on Mastodon, but it’s much more niche and I also prefer the format on Bluesky. Then again, I loved Twitter and built a huge part of my network in Spain via that platform back in the day (I am not on it now).
Also, I do chronological feed on every platform that has it enabled. -
@tanavit @_elena Yep, I think corp socials are starting to feel the threat. I very rarely post on Facebook and only log on once in many months, mostly to verify there’s no impersonation happening, but because of that I usually get quite a lot of activity on those rare posts… until I used one to encourage people to check out the fediverse. Suddenly it was crickets.
@cwicseolfor @tanavit I get crickets on ALL my posts LOL - even those not Fediverse related 🫠
maybe because I post once in every blue moon and the algo doesn't like that. But with 1100+ followers, I suspect nobody uses the "Following" chronological feed...
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@_elena contrarian here, but I really like Bluesky and get substantial interaction there as well as find far more content that is of interest.
I love the community on Mastodon, but it’s much more niche and I also prefer the format on Bluesky. Then again, I loved Twitter and built a huge part of my network in Spain via that platform back in the day (I am not on it now).
Also, I do chronological feed on every platform that has it enabled.@obrien_kat interesting to hear this Kat! I've been having a different experience on Bluesky and I wonder how many of my friends and contacts there use the "Following" feed... because I DO have real life friends there but they never interact with any of my posts... we occasionally talk over DM. I wonder if the algorithm doesn't like that I only post links to external sites and publish something once every blue moon...
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@obrien_kat interesting to hear this Kat! I've been having a different experience on Bluesky and I wonder how many of my friends and contacts there use the "Following" feed... because I DO have real life friends there but they never interact with any of my posts... we occasionally talk over DM. I wonder if the algorithm doesn't like that I only post links to external sites and publish something once every blue moon...
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@cwicseolfor @tanavit I get crickets on ALL my posts LOL - even those not Fediverse related 🫠
maybe because I post once in every blue moon and the algo doesn't like that. But with 1100+ followers, I suspect nobody uses the "Following" chronological feed...
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Fronti di lotta da ricongiungere. Taranto – dalla fabbrica al territorio
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Affrontare la realtà di Taranto non è semplice. Significa analizzare quello che può essere considerato un laboratorio di oppressione capitalista e militare, in cui sono presenti germogli di un conflitto che fatica a esplodere. Per decifrare la bassa conflittualità che...Vedi
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I finished opening and building my latest batch of #Playmobil Figures last night. I only got a couple of the ones I really wanted, but this would have been on that list had I noticed what it actually was: I give you the Playmobil craft beer barman!
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oh, I rented it last year !
Would be cool to have a federated VOD platform
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@_elena contrarian here, but I really like Bluesky and get substantial interaction there as well as find far more content that is of interest.
I love the community on Mastodon, but it’s much more niche and I also prefer the format on Bluesky. Then again, I loved Twitter and built a huge part of my network in Spain via that platform back in the day (I am not on it now).
Also, I do chronological feed on every platform that has it enabled.
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@Gina The app is called "Mastodon".
Alternatively: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.minar.randomix/
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@tanavit @_elena Yep, I think corp socials are starting to feel the threat. I very rarely post on Facebook and only log on once in many months, mostly to verify there’s no impersonation happening, but because of that I usually get quite a lot of activity on those rare posts… until I used one to encourage people to check out the fediverse. Suddenly it was crickets.
