Gregory's Server@tchambers This report is brilliant. Really enjoying learning about the migration. I just logged into Twitter to check DMs, and it was an absolute fire-hose of brand content & celebrities self-promoting. The first tweet from a "normal" user was about 80 tweets down my timeline. Most of the real people I've followed seem to have left or are lurking.
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@GregoryMandry @tchambers I agree with that, but for me, engagement dropped off a cliff. If I ask a question or post a tweet, I just get followed by a lot of false accounts soliciting for sex with sexy avatars. It's hopeless. Today I asked on mastodon for coffee machine recommendation & have been flooded with actual people recommending. Far better. @jodsclass @tchambers I don't tend to toot/tweet, I really just read and respond occasionally, so finding people to follow is crucial and that is tricky here, but I'm getting there slowly. @GregoryMandry @tchambers Stick with it. Toot about your interests & things you like & a community will make itself known to you. Well worth investing time. So much so, I use IFTTT pro now & exclusively post on here, but allow IFTTT to repost my posts to twitter with a link back to them on Mastodon, hoping to bring people over to at least give it a try. @jodsclass @tchambers They also seem to have stuffed the FYP with ads to make the supposedly ad-free Blue more appealing. Plus there's a big "get verified" CTA. |
@jodsclass @tchambers mastodon is great for a filtered, gentle approach but you dont get the immediacy of twitter, not that I can see. But everytime I pop across to check things on the bird, I regret it.