There is no engagement engine whose approval I need to seek here. That's wonderful, and gosh, unconsciously optimizing my actions for profile health and post engagement is... tough. I've internalized so much from the Twitter/Meta style model.
It's nice to just, well, be.
My timeline is full of people sharing stuff they are interested in, with the confidence that no algorithm is going to bury their post if it fails to hit some invisible and unknowable threshold.
I absolutely love it.
@mike I haven't checked video quality on the fediverse, but one thing that I absolutely despise about typical social networks is that if you dare use another image or video host, they'll pretty much drop your post off of anybody's front page unless you've got a billion followers.
Refreshing, for sure.
@shawncreed I genuinely liked Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook when they were reverse-chronological listings of posts from people I followed.
It's a superior paradigm in so many ways.
I remember wayyyyy back when Twitter was supposed to be microblogging, and I used to blog as a way to journal- more or less.
This feels more like microblogging.
@mike nothing in particular to this post. It was a general advice! ☺️
Like if you post a whole story about awesome flowers in your yard with beautiful pictures, more people will see it when you hashtag it "flowers", "garden", or, popular here: "florespondence"
@mike looks like you already knew that though ☺️
So, to new people who didn't read the manual yet: hashtags! 😁
all of you: welcome! 🎉
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