We had aprx 2,300 followers on Instagram. Our announcement that we will stop posting there and switch to Pixelfed was one of our most popular posts. It received over 100 Likes and provoked over 20 comments. But: apparently only a handful of users followed our invitation and joined the Fediverse. I don’t understand people. #diday #instagram #dogfluencer #dogsOfPixelFed #seniordog #rescuedog
@dogonwheels That’s not so much “people”, as agents of choice, but two mutually supportive forces: toxically addictive sensory overstimulation algorithms, and the network effect.
By leaving you weakened the second force, but that’s in the Hemingway bankruptcy playbook — “slowly, then suddenly” — first stage at best now.
It’s a fight that can’t be won alone.
