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.
Steven Heywood@renata
Much of the problem is that the way that social media has evolved it looks and feels like broadcasting and many people have adopted the same "just look at those big numbers" approach to reach. Just the same way that it didn't matter that the viewers used that segment of a TV news programme to go to the toilet so long as it was shown on x million TV sets, so it doesn't matter that most of the views and likes are bots.
Much of the problem is that the way that social media has evolved it looks and feels like broadcasting and many people have adopted the same "just look at those big numbers" approach to reach. Just the same way that it didn't matter that the viewers used that segment of a TV news programme to go to the toilet so long as it was shown on x million TV sets, so it doesn't matter that most of the views and likes are bots.