ar.al (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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Attached: 2 images The difference between a closed, algorithmically-curated silo like Twitter and the fediverse. Same post. Twitter: ~43K “followers”, 8 boosts, 58 likes Fediverse: ~8.43K followers, 57 boosts, 106 likes Your thousands of “followers” on Twitter mean nothing because the algorithm (i.e., Twitter, Inc.) decides who gets to hear you. #fediverse

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  • GadgeteerZA@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Yep I still have more followers on Twitter than on Mastodon, but I get way more (and meaningful) engagement on Mastodon than on my Twitter account.

  • Liwott@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    Isn’t scale effect playing at least as much as engagement? In the sense that the message gets more easily drawn in a Twitter feed than in a Mastodon one.

  • bashrc@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    This is true, but it’s not the quantity of engagement that matters, it’s the quality. Also the fediverse isn’t necessarily intrinsically better than a hellish corporate site, but it’s operated more democratically which tends (not always) to lead to better quality overall.