People who claim there is no engagement on Mastodon have never posted a photo of a really cute cat and it shows.

[nomdeb@mstdn.social]

@lemay Or said that they were having a rough day and needed cute animal photos to cheer them up.

[deathkitten@firetribe.org]

@lemay@mastodon.social Also works with other cute animals! I see lots of bunnies, dogs, guinea pigs, foxes, trash pandas, birds, the occasional donkey or horse, sheep (especially post sheep). Like, if it's an animal and even vaguely cute, they do numbers.

[vk2bea@mastodon.radio]

@lemay ..hello, is this thing on?

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@lemay In my experience ppl who get "no engagement" on Mastodon are here looking for an audience not community.

[z_zed_zed@universeodon.com]

@lemay Birds and dogs work, too. #DogsOfMastodon #birds

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@lemay I love all pics…cats, dogs, birds, beautiful paintings, and mosaic. It’s all fun.

[wallacewords@mastodon.sdf.org]

@lemay Yes! Or dogs! The animal community in this place is beautiful.

[mcrocker@thecanadian.social]

@lemay
Have you met Pumpkin? He found his way to our house (and hearts) in 2011... skinny & bedraggled. He hated the house and never wanted to stay indoors, so we built him a cat sanctuary in the woodshed complete with warming pad. When I took him to the vet's to have him checked out & neutered... seems he had already been uh, 'attended to'. Pumpkin hasn't been around for about 3 years now ... loved that cat.

[stepheneb@ruby.social]

@lemay

One of my favorites!!

https://ruby.social/@stepheneb/114570372430887451

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@lemay the cat I posted last week wasn't cute?

(Well, my most popular post here is somewhat furry related, so it makes sense)

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@lemay slop cats incoming!

[mycotropic@beige.party]

@Beachbum @lemay

cricket appreciates you.

[raven_de_lioncourt@mastodon.social]

@lemay xD I am brand new to the app, but I think the cat thinks is so true anywhere

[yakkoj@fosstodon.org]

@lemay wait we're still hearing this "no engagement" baloney?

I was on Twitter for 14 years, and I've been on Mastodon since 2017, and my own experience is completely different. I got mostly no engagement on Twitter, but I've gotten more genuine interaction on Mastodon in 9 years than I ever got in 14 on Twitter. You just need to not be a garbage person (foreign concept to some, I know...)

[ryan@m29.us]

@lemay This is just a ploy to get people to send you cute cat pics, isn’t it

[danish_akhtar7@mastodon.social]

@lemay

I post the same content on Threads, Bluesky, and #Mastodon, but I get more engagement on Mastodon.

I had great conversations here. The quality of posts and the right hashtags are also important.

[greenpepper22@mastodon.social]

@lemay this really seems like a thinly veiled way to get sent lots of cute cats pictures

[juuhaa@mastodon.social]

@ryan @lemay

https://mastodon.social/@CatsOfYore/116360674881232595

[octaviaconamore@cutie.city]

@MsHearthWitch @lemay bingo, they want to post *at* people (whereas the correct way is to *meow* at people )

[octaviaconamore@cutie.city]

@lemay @alex barring that, just meow at fedi