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Rabbit CohenWhen people complain about how they don't want to come to fedi because "the discoverability is bad", I just think of the last line of the Branson Reese review of Star Trek Into Darkness: "We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend."
I get that it's not entirely that simple, because some people rely on social media for their business as artists and such. But there's a lot of anger at "The Algorithm" among people who don't want to come here because "discoverability is bad", and it's like ok. Well. You have to pick one.
For me, a lot of the appeal of the Fediverse is that it's the place where we speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
Also, I think a lot of what people on other social media don't like about this place is that it's harder to abuse people here.
Sure, people don't really go viral on here. But I've gone viral on several occasions elsewhere, and you know what? It sucks. It doesn't (typically speaking) make you money. It doesn't usually make you friends. It mainly just attracts hostility and harassment.
It's like everyone is competing to become the next MrBeast, a miserable man who's pretty much universally disliked by reasonable people.
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@BathysphereHat Setting aside that for a lot of us, the lack of discoverability was a feature after Twitter, I have done more comission work as an artist and have a greater reach by several orders of magnitude than I ever did when I was "discoverable."
Brynnbo the FrogMxstress@BathysphereHat I've always been confused that I've had so much more success here as a maker of things than I did anywhere else, given how much people hate fedi. I totally gave up on every other platform, lol.
🌸 Vårgubben@BathysphereHat They may say that ”discoverability is bad (in the fediverse)”, but what they mean by that is really ”discoverability (in the tediverse) is distributed with fairness and transparency”.
Arctic@BathysphereHat my thing with this statement is while I like bluesky for some things the algorithm is so shit I never use it
Ami Angelwings@BathysphereHat @wehpudicabok well so far fedi has helped to get me almost 50% to my surgery fund so the discovery seems not to be a problem :)
epitaph of the sea wind@ami_angelwings @BathysphereHat that's awesome! hope you get all the way there soon!
@wehpudicabok @BathysphereHat it's slowed down a little today which is to be expected since it's probably reaching the limits of outreach unless somebody big pushes it out there again, but I'm still amazed we got this far :3
Eniko Fox@BathysphereHat I truly don't get this. If you participate, especially if you make cool stuff, discoverability here is fine. People boost *way more* here than on bluesky. I have about the same number of followers on both!
@eniko People want to be able to randomly go viral, even though going viral is bad.
@BathysphereHat maybe I don't know what viral is but I've had posts with 500+ boosts here, too
@eniko I meant more that going viral is bad when it's like, thousands of people sharing your posts. I usually started to dissociate bad around 3k retweets back on twitter.
@eniko I had a few posts with over 100k retweets, and it was Very Bad.
@BathysphereHat oh. I've literally never had that happen in like 15 years :'D
@eniko It's a great thing to happen if you like being misinterpreted in deeply uncharitable and completely unpredictable ways.
@BathysphereHat yeah. i've had thousands (tens of thousands? idk) on twitter and it wasn't helpful in any way, it was just annoying. didn't even really get any follows out of it
@eniko I had one freak post that got me literally thousands of new followers, and that was honestly worse? Like, it put me in a position where ALL my posts were vulnerable to being misinterpreted in unhinged ways by complete strangers, except then the strangers thought they knew me.
@eniko I did meet some cool people too. But god.