After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
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Carine Missiaen
in reply to everton137 • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Carine Missiaen • • •@CarineMissiaen welcome Carine!
Quick question: what are you using to browse Mastodon? Which OS are you on?
For desktop computers I would recommend Phanpy.social (its Catch Up feature is the best of any web client across all social media IMHO).
On iOS I use @ivory - who used the make the excellent Tweetbot and the experience is similar.
Feel free to reach out if you need any help!
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Phanpy
phanpy.socialCarine Missiaen
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I'm still using Google. I am used to it. Ant my laptop has Windows. Seldom using a celphone. Only when I don't have a pc in reach.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Carine Missiaen • • •everton137
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •ticho
in reply to everton137 • • •At the risk of being the stereotypical "reply guy", sample size of one post can have misleading results. :)
Amount of boosts/reposts for any given post is as much about having a good message and enough followers, as well as about pure luck, since most people's feeds are moving quickly, and they do not spend all their time glued to their social apps.
It seems weird that Bluesky, whose raison d'etre was "Twitter, but not evil" would have users this disinterested in this topic. 🤷
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to ticho • • •@ticho fair but the lack of engagement on Bluesky is truly shocking. Casey Newton has 250k followers there and when he shares one of his articles he may get something like 15 boosts (like, the latest article he shared). Yes 15, not 150.
I got 400 boosts on Mastodon the last time I shared a link.
I had a Bluesky account with 1.1k followers and zero interactions. Ditto for Fedi friends who have 6k followers there.
It's a thing.
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ticho
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@_elena Maybe Bluesky has a completely different "usage culture"
More passive consumption and less interaction.
More uni-directional broadcasting from "content creators" to "consumers", and less conversation?
But hm, that would explain fewer replies, but probably not fewer reposts and likes.
Being no expert, it really seems very strange. Maybe Bluesky is just dead and full of bot squads which only allow certain kinds of messaging to go viral? I hope not!
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to ticho • • •@ticho I think it replicates a lot of the toxic ways of Twitter, so popular posts are typically those that induce rage. Accounts that post about US politics have A LOT of interactions
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Phoenix Paulina Schmid
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@_elena This! Bluesky in it's history was exactly designed as Dorsey's Twitter was. It it wasn't for Musk then Twitter would have been what Bluesky (the app) is today.
CC: @ticho @everton137
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Phoenix Paulina Schmid • • •LittlePolarBear
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •That's one reason I left Bsky for fedi. Bsky was nothing but liberal rage instead of the alt right of Twitter. I was getting mad, not value. Fedi has some of that content but far more other discussions that I actually enjoy reading. Happy I made the swap.