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.
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From what I see the Fediverse is what you want to make of it. You curate your own time line, letting some in and others out. I don't see why you can't keep the Fediverse the way you like it as long as you're willing to stay vigilant and/or switch instances when it's necessary.
It can remain a small neighborhood for you while others discover it.
Am I wrong on this point?
@MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137
I don't think you're wrong: like life, the fediverse gives you back what you put into it.
Follow nobody, get nothing.
Spend a little time building you follow lists?
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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
I go both ways, so I went ahead and boosted you on BS.
there's no algorithm, but a hell of a lot of blocklists and starter packs now, so maybe that played a role.
anyway - I hope such 'helpers' don't come here, and cripple my ability to 'curate my own feed'.
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From what I see the Fediverse is what you want to make of it. You curate your own time line, letting some in and others out. I don't see why you can't keep the Fediverse the way you like it as long as you're willing to stay vigilant and/or switch instances when it's necessary.
It can remain a small neighborhood for you while others discover it.
Am I wrong on this point?
@MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137
not only are you not wrong, you reveal the idiocy of this "i don't want the fediverse to grow" foolishness
as you say, you simply make of the fediverse what you want. it's size elsewhere or not on some other servers has zero bearing on your experience
so people who "want to keep the fediverse small" are doing nothing but stating an absurdity at best. they aren't engaged coherently
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@MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137
not only are you not wrong, you reveal the idiocy of this "i don't want the fediverse to grow" foolishness
as you say, you simply make of the fediverse what you want. it's size elsewhere or not on some other servers has zero bearing on your experience
so people who "want to keep the fediverse small" are doing nothing but stating an absurdity at best. they aren't engaged coherently
@benroyce
It can easily stay small. If someone joins a small instance and only looks at the feed of people they follow, voila - small Fedi. -
@benroyce
It can easily stay small. If someone joins a small instance and only looks at the feed of people they follow, voila - small Fedi. -
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
@everton137 I have no faith that there is fair content surfacing in an ecosystem where all the following factors are true:
A. Algorithmic feeds
B. VC / Advertising based funding
C. Platforming and verifying fascistsA + B + C = Content Supression. Every time. There's incentive to squelch who fascists dont like.
Posting in for profit spaces who accept the money and/or social brand reach of fascists is akin to trying to get the word out by yelling while someone covers your face with a pillow. Yelling in a pillow can be cathardic, but no one else is gonna hear.
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I go both ways, so I went ahead and boosted you on BS.
there's no algorithm, but a hell of a lot of blocklists and starter packs now, so maybe that played a role.
anyway - I hope such 'helpers' don't come here, and cripple my ability to 'curate my own feed'.
@Sassinake “there’s no algorithm” is just hard to believe about bluesky. Maybe theres not Meta’s algorithm, but something else chooses what is fed and when - the ‘discover’ tab when not logged in, for example..
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@Sassinake “there’s no algorithm” is just hard to believe about bluesky. Maybe theres not Meta’s algorithm, but something else chooses what is fed and when - the ‘discover’ tab when not logged in, for example..
@collette alright, yes - the discover tab.
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@CarineMissiaen @everton137 welcome here, you will get the hang of it!
Ignore global timeline. Follow some hashtags you like, one popular on is #Caturday@shadowwwind @CarineMissiaen @everton137
And #silentsunday for your mental health breaks.
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@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 @ticho @everton137
That's one reason I left Bsky for fedi. Bsky was nothing but liberal rage instead of the alt right of Twitter. I was getting mad, not value. Fedi has some of that content but far more other discussions that I actually enjoy reading. Happy I made the swap. -
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
@everton137 Bluesky has terrible engagement (learnt the hard way) and an increasing issue with bots.
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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
@everton137 I have a very good reason for not not taking this opportunity to leave FB/Xitter/Insta/whatever.
I did it 4 years ago, and havent been back since. -
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). -
@gabboman may you share an example to have an idea what bomb on BlueSky?
@everton137 @gabboman I'll give you an example, my lab discovered a magtape of the UNIX v4 source code from 1973. Did extremely well here, nothing at all over on bluesky.
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983
Which is fine, just a different audience.
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@MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137
not only are you not wrong, you reveal the idiocy of this "i don't want the fediverse to grow" foolishness
as you say, you simply make of the fediverse what you want. it's size elsewhere or not on some other servers has zero bearing on your experience
so people who "want to keep the fediverse small" are doing nothing but stating an absurdity at best. they aren't engaged coherently
@benroyce @MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137
It's like saying I want an email service that only my friends can use to only email other people that are my friends.
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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
@everton137 I agree with you, but I also wonder if part of it is that people on BlueSky are much more likely than people on Mastodon to be reluctant to ditch their Twitter account entirely (even if they mostly post on another platform).
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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.
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@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.
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From what I see the Fediverse is what you want to make of it. You curate your own time line, letting some in and others out. I don't see why you can't keep the Fediverse the way you like it as long as you're willing to stay vigilant and/or switch instances when it's necessary.
It can remain a small neighborhood for you while others discover it.
Am I wrong on this point?
@MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137
Not wrong. I do feel a pang of guilt if I mute someone who is posting in a different language, though. Or is posting a lot of tech based fixes or informatiin abuut specificprograms, buyt I am not technical at all.
And, you know, the whole three years of HS French that I don't remember!
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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
@everton137 While there's fewer people on Mastodon, I feel like I've met more like-minded people here, and built more meaningful social ties.
