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.
millennial fulcrum@renata well put.
a one way flow is the behaviour of the blood parasite. which people who want followers for profit and to bolster their own influence basically are.
a two way flow is like love. which really is how the fedi works.
this is an unpopular view but I think we are genuinely lucky to have so many rich hearts and so few mosquitos. the day will definitely come when we will look back with tremendous fondness upon this fedi era without mainstream media journalists and influencers.