Anyone who believes the Fediverse is a barren wasteland has never seen my Mastodon notifications.
I guarantee that if you’re active here, and have conversations with people, you will be amazed at the response.
Don’t stay on Twitter due to follower counts. That’s a ruse. What good are followers if no one talks to you?
The real action is here on the Fediverse.
Look, even when I had no more than 100 followers, the Fediverse was more interactive and responsive than my Twitter experience.
And when I left Twitter, I had 8,000 followers!
On Twitter, I was lucky to receive one response to my tweets.
Anyone who measures social media by MAUs is blind to what’s actually going on.
Sure, the Fediverse has fewer people who log in.
But on a per capita basis, it’s got way more people who post, reply, boost, and like.
What should be apparent to anyone who uses the Fediverse on a consistent basis is that Twitter has been throttling organic interactions for their own bullshit reasons.
If Twitter's algorithm was so great, why are there more plentiful interactions over on the Fediverse?
What’s been obvious for quite awhile is that Twitter “influencers” don’t write for human interactions.
They write for algorithmic interactions.
They’re not directly influencers of people. They’re influencers of algorithms.
So yeah, Twitter “influencers” hate the Fediverse because they can’t play the same games.
Yet what’s the result of removing algorithms? More human interactions, less shady “influence”.
I’m so glad that the Fediverse has become a thing.
Because I’m convinced that Big Social will soon be primarily for chat bots talking to relevancy algorithms.
Pretty much, it will be ChatGPT optimizing “content” for Twitter’s home feed.
The traffic will likewise be artificial.
Just “impressions” made to convince bots that their tweets are “optimized”.
Back when I helped build Hootsuite, we used to sell analytics.
What quickly became apparent to me is that so much of our clientele didn’t care about what the numbers meant.
They just wanted “big numbers” to impress their boss or their clients—something that would justify their “expertise”.
And this attitude still pervades Big Social—where genuine human-to-human interactions takes a back seat to metrics.
What’s more addictive than social media? Social media metrics.
To me, the measure of whether a social media service is still human is simple: if we met in person, would I buy you a beer?
Back in 2009, I regularly bought people beer at Twitter meet-ups. Or “Tweet-Ups” as we called them.
Now I would likely never meet someone off Twitter.
From the Fediverse, yes.
There’s genuine humans here.
@atomicpoet this is great. I remember making genuine friends even in the early days of AOL instant messenger. The internet got monetized and somehow that killed the spontaneity of human connection.
