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Chris Trottier

Further tips to help your interactions on the Fediverse:

1. Read bios. They explain how people want to be approached
2. When in doubt, use a CW. You might think they're stupid, but they're important.
3. Don't go looking for dunks!

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Chris Trottier

When looking to interact on the Fediverse, culture is something *important* to understand.

A big component of the Fediverse community has been LGBT+, furries, the neurodivergent, and tech workers.

These folks have built the Fediverse.

Chris Trottier

When interacting on the Fediverse, it's important to understand that interactions are not a game.

This isn't about metrics. Yeah, I showed you metrics -- but this isn't about numbers, it's about actual human-to-human (not bot) connections.

Chris Trottier

Don't be racing to bolster those Fediverse metrics. Nobody here gives a damn about your followers.

What they actually care about is if you're being a genuine human to them.

If they sense bullshit, they'll sod off.

Chris Trottier replied to Chris

FINALLY: What you get out of the Fediverse largely depends on what you put into it.

There's no shortcuts or cheat codes.

There's no algorithm to play.

There's no ads that will give you more exposure and reach.

This requires effort 😮

Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin: replied to Chris

@atomicpoet your right, the fediverse requires effort and that can put a lot of people off; I theorise that this is largely because a lot of media has made consumers used to being spoon fed miles of feed they can mindlessly scroll through.

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK replied to Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin:

@carbontwelve @atomicpoet

TBH I think any serious collapse of Twitter/Meta etc won't even bring all the normies onto here, they will simply go back to using telephone calls/emails etc or passively consuming linear TV and radio..

bhtooefr replied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@vfrmedia @carbontwelve @atomicpoet also it could easily mean that they just go to yet another siloed corporate social media platform created in the wake - just as MySpace was supplanted by Facebook, Facebook and Twitter can be supplanted by another corporate platform

hell, that platform could even be a silo using an internal, non-federating Mastodon fork - there's at least two of those that have existed, marketing themselves to fascists
@vfrmedia @carbontwelve @atomicpoet also it could easily mean that they just go to yet another siloed corporate social media platform created in the wake - just as MySpace was supplanted by Facebook, Facebook and Twitter can be supplanted by another corporate platform
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