Renata 🇨🇦🐈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.
Arnd Layer@renata
I believe it’s not only about likes. I remember that Twitter also showed a view count and I felt a little withdrawal when I switched to mastodon. So as long as there aren’t servers that offer this statistic, it could be another factor.
Especially if you factor in a corporate environment where only things you can measure are valid.
Referrals may also be harder to measure because of the multitude of servers.