Newsflash: boring white guy thinks fedi is bad because people here are not interested in his AI content

Anyway, Happy First Contact Day everyone.

I don’t even TRY (not my goal in life, I use mastodon for fun) and never had a problem with “engagement”

I have said this before:

A lot of journalists, influencers, etc have a problem with fedi because they don’t bother understanding the format

They’re used to platforms that work like this:
- share hot take
- receive likes

The fedi works differently:
- Engage with the community
- Connect with like minded folks regularly so they see you as a peer
- Eventually share your hot take
- Get responses
- Interact

And there you have it. That’s how you make friends instead of just followers.

@renata And doing so in good faith (and blocking bad faith folks!) makes fedi-conversations meaningful exchanges of ideas, instead of just outlets and sites of parasociality!