petersuberNov 7, 2022

Kudos to the #Netherlands.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/82-of-scientific-publications-open-access-available

"Dutch universities published 82% of their peer-reviewed scientific publications #OpenAccess in 2021. This is an increase of nine percentage points compared to 2020."

Show threadpetersuberNov 7, 2022

Little experiment comparing activity on #Mastodon and #Twitter.

One hour ago, I posted the Dutch news above (previous item in this thread) at the same time to my personal accounts on #Mastodon and #Twitter. Here's what happened in that hour:

* Mastodon, 24 favorites, 12 boosts

* Twitter, 12 likes, 6 retweets

That's nearly twice as much engagement on Mastodon. But I have more than 23 times more followers on Twitter than Mastodon.

Show threadCentauriusNov 7, 2022
@petersuber Could this increase in engagement be due to a “closer” form of interaction fostered by the design and implementation of Mastodon? It seems like Twitter became a standoffish place where everyone is just there for the lurking or performative arts. People seem more willing to actually engage here.
Show threadMó PasaránNov 7, 2022
@Centaurius @petersuber
It's frustrating to engage on Twitter if you haven't got a large follower count. The algorithm doesn't show your content to people, so eventually many give up engaging.
Show threadR Saravanan
@MoPasaran @Centaurius @petersuber I have faced the same issue on Twitter (about content not being shown). As the number of users grows, even Mastodon users will likely need a curated feed, but since it's open source, you can control the curation algorithm. I'm hoping we can evolve Mastodon to address this problem in a better way.
Nov 7, 2022 at 4:05pmWeb
Show threadMó PasaránNov 7, 2022

@RSarava @Centaurius @petersuber
I hope so, but it's a fair point that engagement being forthcoming for small accounts, may only hold while numbers are small.

Once folks are self-curating, as post volume becomes too large, it may well go back to being everybody just trying to interact with the same small number of accounts, who get too many replies to even read them all.

That's my bubble burst, I guess 😅

Show threadR SaravananNov 7, 2022
@MoPasaran @Centaurius @petersuber I have been thinking of ways to do that, and am planning to create a customized version of mastodon for my own use (and make it freely available). For example, I could toot my periodic blog posts with a #TOTW (toot of the week) hashtag and the algorithm would always show it to followers (even if it hid my other, more frequent toots)
Show threadMó PasaránNov 7, 2022

@RSarava @Centaurius @petersuber
I've a suspicion a lot of people will curate simply by muting all the smaller accounts, unfortunately.

What you're doing sounds interesting tho. I'd love to see how that works out.

Show threadCentauriusNov 7, 2022
@RSarava @MoPasaran @petersuber one of the benefits of the mastodon style of social network is your can propose this exact setup and the developers will/can implement it on the platform. @Gargron