Chris TrottierOn Mastodon, there's two groups of people:
1. Those who want to recreate Twitter
2. Those who want to bury Twitter, then pave over its grave
I'm of the second group.
Reselsnark@atomicpoet except making everything into a false binary is exactly what happens on Twitter. So you really are part of group 1.
Tim Erickson, @stpaultim@reselsnark @atomicpoet I am willing to wager that most people on Mastodon would not want to associate themselves with either of these positions.
Making deliberately provocative posts to get engagement is very Twitterish behavior. It worked, I replied. Is that a technological problem or a people problem?
badboyntx@stpaultim @reselsnark @atomicpoet
Even over there I would have preferred 100 followers with > 50% engagement, rather than 1m followers and nary a reponse, just "likes".
I tried offering discussion points, usually to crickets.
I never deigned to use "who thinks popular idea of the day" posts.
So... i say it's a people problem.
Don't follow me if you're never going to engage beyond an agreement button.