JesseCollecting anecdotes, data, and anecdata on people and orgs who’ve left Twitter and found higher engagement from ostensibly fewer followers. This is in preparation for a renewed pitch to the org I’m in, to begin the process of x-trication. Boosts appreciated!
Ether Diver@misc I can provide you with a screenshot of my tracking from Bandcamp which shows almost exactly 3x the traffic in the year since I joined Mastodon than in the year prior when I used Twitter primarily.
@etherdiver That sounds great!
@misc
Here you go. As you can see from my profile, I joined almost exactly a year ago, on Dec 15. My engagement/streams on Bandcamp started climbing almost immediately, and continued. Last year I had just shy of 3k streams. This year, I'm on track to have just under 9k for the year.
Sales also increased by roughly the same amount. My following here is similar size to my Twitter following (which I no longer use) but it took me a few months to get there once I arrived here.
@misc if you need me to drill into this data more, lmk
@misc Actually, had a closer look and sales went up 5x! So 3x the streams and 5x the sales. Wow, thanks Mastodon!
@misc I also added tmblr and bluesky over the course of this year, but I barely use bluesky and I almost never promote my music on tumblr (the occasional post, maybe a dozen mentions in the year, vs almost daily promo here, which is my primary social media home) since tumblr is where I go to repost pictures of old computers and be exposed to the weirdest people in the universe, both of which I find very relaxing.