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Yeah, but like which cat?
When I left Twitter for Mastodon, so many people told me I was making a mistake and Mastodon was dead.
It was a difficult decision to switch because I had been on Twitter for 13 years, and I had accumulated over 16,000 followers.
But here we are, two and a half years later, and I am now followed by 17,000 here on Mastodon.
It is such an important milestone for me, because it proves that while the majority will often chose continuity over change, change often wins.
The future is federated!
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@Geri @randahl @bsky.brid.gy need to write directly to the green party
Socialmedia@greenparty.org.uk
It’s likely some of your twitter followers were bots. None of that malarkey here.
I'm grateful I was able to automate the process before the Twitter API was locked down.
I arrived here with many of my existing follows the had already moved to Mastodon 🙂
I would not give much weight to the count.
It is more important that real people are reading.
Smaller scale, but same actually!
From memory, I think the max followers I had on Twitter was like 650, and it's now around 850 here, in much fewer years of posting.
(I'm sure that, in both cases, some are/were dormant accounts, whose owners don't actually look at their feed any more.)
Thank you, people who have entrusted a little bit of your time and attention to me :-)
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A screenshot in dark mode of Randahl Fink's mastodon followers (17,018) and following (7,013). The follower count is circled in red.
100% agree. Thank you for shifting!
I'm very disappointed that so few journalists, governments and influencers bothered to rebuild their social network on safe sites like Mastodon.
After Musk's takeover, they could easily have led their audiences away from the flaming hellsite. Instead, they stuck with their audience and normalised the unacceptable.
When the history books are written about the destruction of 20th C liberal democracy, social media will have a big part.
@TCatInReality one explanation could be, Mastodon is very international.
That is absolutely great, but for a politician from Denmark's perspective, she takes one look in here and thinks, these are not my potential voters.
Yes, of course. Just like in Twitter's early days it was very techy and US-oriented. And eventually a virtuous cycle grew the audience.
IMO, major media sites and government agencies should have launched their own Mastodon servers after the Musk takeover. A brief as campaign introducing those as the "official" sources for info would have dramatically jumped start the audience.
Now, we've all given up on authenticated sources (and even authentic content). What a world we created
@randahl @TCatInReality People have built up an audience (followers) over time on #Twitter / #X but what about engagement? People have been leaving. Are the followers still active there? What about the quality of engagement?
Stats would be interesting.
It's hard to know because all data comes from Musk.
From what I've read, it seems about 20-25% of Twitter users left. There's a mountain of fake bots to hide that.
As for engagement, it's just enough to keep influencers online. But Musk is constantly degrading the algorithm to reduce reach (and boost himself and favorites).
To me, it was always a Q of how bad it would be before each influencer left. But I have no doubt almost all will (or shift rightward)
@TimFinnerty @randahl @TCatInReality
Personal testimony -
My followers number is basically unchanged, but
Views have dropped 90%
There’s only ONE reason I’ve not deleted my X account - the Dem Party (Fed & State) & politicians. If Dems wont stop posting on X, they MUST choose another social site to congregate & tell us where, & use tech to post simultaneously on other sites.
STOP endorsing a monopoly. Now b4 midterms.
Social media is largely incidental.
We never successfully adapted to TV, never mind the Internet. All of the fascist leaders are products of television amplified by social media and so on.
Hyper-simplification and slogan based policy is a product of sound bite and controversy based politics-as-entertainment on television.
IMO, that is certainly a significant factor.
But I'd rather the absence of an algorithm (driven by profit and/or ideology) as a bigger factor.
@bjarkess once I have 1000 Patreons financing my work, I will happily publish on Peertube.
Like everyone else, I need to pay for groceries.
@Micha_Silver I am really happy you feel that way.
Now if only YouTubers felt the same, my chance of creating a sustainable video commentary business would improve dramatically. But for some reason, the discrepancy is huge: Only 2694 subscribers over there.
That is a mystery to me. But food for thought.
@darren I will able to post on Peertube, when enough people sponsor me on Patreon. So far, four people have been kind enough to support my work.
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