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.
Gaëtan Perrault@renata I think this goes both ways though. Journalists and influencers are inherently on these platforms to generate some form of monetization.
Typically this is some form of advertising revenue share. Otherwise they have to use this platform as marketing. Which is also really just advertising.
Doing those things well requires algorithmic control and reliable metrics. Both things which this fediverse platform doesn't support.
The lack of those things makes this a kind of useless platform for influencers and journalists. Not only do they have to do community engagement, but they can't use those numbers for advances on their next book.
You can do Cory Doctorow numbers, but you can't do Kim Kardashian numbers.
We could say some of those people have problems here, but I think it's more accurate to say that this place just isn't really for them.
Petra van Cronenburg@gatesvp This. We have a lot of journalists on Mastodon who communicate and search mainly for getting readers. They can do it because they act as one person or freelancers. But for media publishers social media is one part of monetization. Some did tests and left for better alternatives - so many left for Bluesky.
Same problem for artists:they often need different platforms to survive selling their art. They can't survive with communication only. We should accept different expectations.
@renata
Same problem for artists:they often need different platforms to survive selling their art. They can't survive with communication only. We should accept different expectations.
@renata