Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
@scottjenson @carnage4life threads and bluesky are single monolithic platforms. masto federated. so would likely depend on which masto server someone's posting on i'd guess as a starter...
also, purely anecdotally/for my own part, there's less of a culture of boosting/liking/trying to make things go viral for the algorithm. lack of apparent engagement may not signal lack of people actually reading posts/following links/etc.
@patrick_h_lauke @scottjenson @carnage4life
I feel that the comparison between Mastodon/other is currently a bit like linux/other. As one game developer put it: only 1% of their users were on linux, but that 1% created 90% of bug reports, of which 90% were applicable to other platforms.
You're not going to get similar numbers of likes on Fedi, and not just due to lack of algorithm: the platform rewards conversations more, which means longer engagement per post (instead of skimming & liking).
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