@ricmac that’s a good description of the POSSE vibe as opposed to the technical details. Constantly spraying blog posts across different platforms without engagement is like going around to house parties without actually talking to anyone, just handing out flyers for your own party.

@ricmac Yeah, I agree for the most part. It’s kind of frustrating, though. I’ve tried to mitigate this with making the articles I write federated, and it works okay, but people often engage more with the microblogging account.

It’s also really time consuming to try to make a post go everywhere, in places where federation does not exist. I think I was running like 11 different accounts at one point, before simply feeling exhausted.

@ricmac Sometimes when someone I've encountered here seems just barely interesting enough to follow and I need one additional little bit of info to push me in favor or against clicking the button, I like to glance at their “Replies” tab to see if they ever actually talk to people or if they're just here to broadcast. #FediConfession

@ricmac what I hate is needing to reference something someone said in a thread I engaged in a few weeks ago. Even when I can find it, I end up thinking I'm experiencing the Mandella effect or censorhip when my comments aren't there. While the thread is basically what I remember people saying when I commented, I eventually realize that a version of the same conversation (often with some of the same people) also happened in another walled garden.