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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
Commercial and algorithm based platforms can’t be public squares.
A for-profit algorithm is shaped by spectacle and engagement, not discourse.
They only offer an illusion of a town square.
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The post is good for mastodon but sucks for bluesky.
I have posts that explode on bsky and bomb on the mastodon side. And I say same post literaly
@gabboman may you share an example to have an idea what bomb on BlueSky?
@everton137 At the risk of being the stereotypical "reply guy", sample size of one post can have misleading results. :)
Amount of boosts/reposts for any given post is as much about having a good message and enough followers, as well as about pure luck, since most people's feeds are moving quickly, and they do not spend all their time glued to their social apps.
It seems weird that Bluesky, whose raison d'etre was "Twitter, but not evil" would have users this disinterested in this topic. 🤷
@ticho fair but the lack of engagement on Bluesky is truly shocking. Casey Newton has 250k followers there and when he shares one of his articles he may get something like 15 boosts (like, the latest article he shared). Yes 15, not 150.
I got 400 boosts on Mastodon the last time I shared a link.
I had a Bluesky account with 1.1k followers and zero interactions. Ditto for Fedi friends who have 6k followers there.
It's a thing.
@_elena @everton137 Maybe Bluesky has a completely different "usage culture"
More passive consumption and less interaction.
More uni-directional broadcasting from "content creators" to "consumers", and less conversation?
But hm, that would explain fewer replies, but probably not fewer reposts and likes.
Being no expert, it really seems very strange. Maybe Bluesky is just dead and full of bot squads which only allow certain kinds of messaging to go viral? I hope not!
@ticho I think it replicates a lot of the toxic ways of Twitter, so popular posts are typically those that induce rage. Accounts that post about US politics have A LOT of interactions
@_elena This! Bluesky in it's history was exactly designed as Dorsey's Twitter was. It it wasn't for Musk then Twitter would have been what Bluesky (the app) is today.
CC: @ticho @everton137
@everton137
I was on only one social medium. And they threw me out 😆 (I seem not to have been the only one - not liking Trump seems to be an offend). Mastodon was the first European alternative I could find, with some people on it. But I still have to find out how to use it. It is much less intuitive.
hello Carine,
at first sight, you seem to have got fediverse perfectly right, you are here, speaking with people from different instances.
What you consider less intuitive ?
If I can give just a suggestion, without an algorithmic feed bringing you pre cooked content, you have to try to follow much more people, hashtag, lemmy forum compared to what you were used to in the ruined social
I will have to learn it. It took me years to understand the FB tricks. But most people from the Belgian shepherd dog community, I know from FB. And sometimes we met in real and said "oh, is that you?"
Probably they have not been criticizing the T-Rump administration and they put more pictures of themwelves (I very seldom do, I don't like my pictures).
@CarineMissiaen @luca but you like dogs, like I do, and I often post her photos on my Pixelfed @everton137@pixelfed.social 🙂
By the way, I think you are going great! There are people interacting with you, and you joined a conversation.
Actually, I couldn't expect my post to generate so many replies.
P. S. A link with just the photos of my furry friend on my Pixelfed. I noticed I haven't shared photos of her recently.
@CarineMissiaen welcome Carine!
Quick question: what are you using to browse Mastodon? Which OS are you on?
For desktop computers I would recommend https://Phanpy.social (its Catch Up feature is the best of any web client across all social media IMHO).
On iOS I use @ivory - who used the make the excellent Tweetbot and the experience is similar.
Feel free to reach out if you need any help!
I'm still using Google. I am used to it. Ant my laptop has Windows. Seldom using a celphone. Only when I don't have a pc in reach.
@CarineMissiaen @ivory @everton137 thanks! in that case Phanpy is phenomenal, as it has cross-platform compatibility. Give it a try (especially the catch up feature)
@_elena @CarineMissiaen @ivory I love the catch-up feature! I generally use my mobile, but since I don't always check social media, mainly when I'm at work, I use this feature to catch-up on what I missed. 🙂
