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.
Łukasz G.@renata You can’t even blame journalist for that, much (well, actually you can, but they too need something to eat from time to time). They all come from mass media these days, so their jobs are not about making relevant connections or engaging with communities, locating painpoints, unearthing truth, but about keeping the reader interested long enough for them to see the next commercial. (1/2)
And the targets their bosses set ensure they will never have time for this useless community stuff. There’s a good reason we call them mediaworkers rather than journalists these days, you know :) (2/2)