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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@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.
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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 There are some topics which seem to do super well on Mastodon and not so much on BlueSky.
AI is another topic that does well on mastodon, but not so much on other social media.
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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 @McWabbit and on my timeline Mastodon is growing pretty steady.
For years I use the global number of notifications/day as indicator.
Where early 2025 it was around 100 on a good day, later it was 100 on average and begin 2026 many days 130-150.(Numbers only say much about the posts itself. It is the interaction on the post that count and have a wide range per post.)
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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 This is probably because BlueSky is fascist, and it would be hypocritical of its users to repost that message.
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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 horses to water it seems, sadly. Even people who joined at my invite/suggestion don’t hate the facist algos enough to develop their presence here. They aren’t stupid, but apparently they are lazy or too busy.
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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 Algorithms are just more obfuscated tools of control, very simple.
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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)
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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 Marketing likes classical social media, because it serves statistics on engagement: how many people saw your post, how much time they spent, etc... You have not seen these statistics because you need an advertiser's account.
It is something they can give to their bosses to show that they worked hard.
Mastodon does not offer that. Marketing will not use it.
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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 most of those other people, suck.
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yes
because you are also saying then that you are happy with the great mass of your society under the algorithmic control of musk and zuckerberg
are you really happy with that idea?
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?
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@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
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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.
