Gregory's Serverevery now and then someone makes a post like "fedi culture is getting 8 boosts and 20 likes and going 'ohh this is doing numbers' lol lmao. numbers tiny" and like i get it but also if 20 people came up to me and said "i liked it when you said that, well done" and 8 of those people were like "can i get some copies of this so i can show it to all my friends?" id be stoked
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 @codl  @codl I hope that you don't mind that I made and disseminated numerous copies of the above to show my friends without your prior approval ? @codl hahaha! This is very true! Also, you get much more actual interactions from those "tiny numbers" than any big social mdia imo @RoseThorndyke @codl Yeah, I commented something similar on a recent post I saw about it.
I've got way less followers here than on twitter (on this or my art account), so less boots or likes most of the time (not always), but way more comments, feedbacks, discussions, etc. Overall, waaaay more pleasant here. @codl Mainstream social media makes us really devalue the meaning behind those numbers. It's like how YouTube videos are only considered "successful" if they are at least in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of viewers. Can you visualize a million people? Can we even grasp what this number means? Hell, I recently had a post with over a hundred reactions. Over one hundred humans who enjoy my rambling. That's insane. I'm glad Mastodon is helping us put things into perspective again.  I feel more well known and appreciated on my tiny corner of Fedi with these numbers than I do about the one AMV I made over a decade ago that has tens of thousands of views on YouTube.
Each of these little numbers has so much more value.  @codl These numbers are only tiny to people who can't think with anything than ever growing capitalistic numbers, always more, always bigger, always chasing an ever-evading growing goal of owning more and making more money out of it! To us "mere mortals", it's always a treat, however small these numbers are π  @codl@chitter.xyz If I get even a single person telling me over #IRC/#Matrix/whatever that they read my blog post and they liked it, I'm already happy. I rather have 1 real person enjoying what I make than a million bots who just make an API call and never truly engage over it. @transponderings @codl Success is also not so much numbers driven as niche driven. Gaining recognition within your niche community, interacting with people within that base is often worth more than going viral and having people who don't like, engage with or understand what you're doing respond to your work dishonestly (trolling, utilizing it for their own engagement numbers).  @clarablackink @codl Yes, though Iβd say itβs more about being a part of a community in that case rather than becoming niche-famous β and thatβs difficult to do on platforms that are overrun with bots and trolls @codl i don't make that post but i do joke about it elsewhere and yeah same feelings of course my post about how 20 likes is a lot actually would absolutely blow up like this jsyk i muted the thread @codl after having a few posts on Twitter "do numbers" I'm happy that now I only get attention from people who wanted to see my post. I'm fine with 3-50 boosts. I'm fine with zero boosts and 10 likes too.  @codl This reminds me of what @chriswere said in his PeerTube channel at some point, "if I made a speech and fifty people came to see it, I'd be floored". But I think this attitude comes from the difference between the way people interact with content here compare to mainstream social media. @codl Our network is divided into specialized communities, so when somebody wants to talk about a certain topic there is a good chance instance members are invested in the topic so they are more willing to engage in a conversation with the original poster, and when they boost it the topic arrives to other people in different instances who are also interested in the subject. @codl In mainstream social media on the other hand people just sort of scroll away, a lot of them don't pay a ton of attention to the content they are viewing. Most they usually do is drop a like and move on to the next thing, and sometimes they don't even bother with a like. This is what makes the large numbers on big platforms so worthless. You can gather a ton of views and likes but only around 3% of that actually wants to have a discussion with you. @codl Because for most people the content is just "kinda cool". It's neat to see it pop up when they are mindlessly scrolling to pass time but often it isn't a subject they are super passionate about.   @codl no i think when people say this they mean it genuinely like on here i know if i get 20 florps that's like 20 real people that actually organically saw my posts and to click the florp button because they presumably liked it @codl@chitter.xyz this is so nicely put, well said  @codl the worst thing about Twitter is when something does big numbers and the replies make you realize that a significant portion of the people liking/retweeting don't understand that it's a joke or are laughing for the wrong reasons, or non-joke science-oriented posts being dunked on by the smug and dumb. Somehow that's worse than obscurity. I'd rather get a reply or RT from one of my known-smart or known-funny mutuals than a few thousand randos. Smart:dumb ratio is much better here, so far.  @codl It's not a numbers or influencers game. It's about the interaction.  @codl Fair, but also, I know regularly see toots getting hundreds or retoots and thousands of likes or more so doesn't seem to be true anymore anyway XDDDD @codl it's strange, it's not unusual to be proud of yourself acting in front of like, twenty people at a local theater. or a thousand at a sports event, ten thousand at a is a big deal at a concert. people on the internet act like 1M is the minimum. oh you only touched the lives of 100k people what a shame. you should give up @codl fedi culture is just appreciating that folks are there in the first place, instead of focusing on the numbers. @codl I feel like the experience is getting better every day. There's enough regular posting user base, and still gloriously no ads or weird algorithm mind games. @codl Yeah legit. People don't put that into perspective lmao @codl some lovely people have straight up told me "i love when you make posts like this" before. fedi culture is glorious. i love how we actually have a social media experience on here instead of everyone being scared to talk to each other like on other sites. and i have never done more numbers than i have on mastodon. love it here.  @codl My numbers here have always been much better than they ever were on Twitter! Thing I've noticed here is posts tend to circulate longer, and even once they're buried they tend to reappear more often.  @Fragglemuppet @codl Engagement is much better on social media when there are no algorithms. There are less bots and fake accounts stealing people's attention. Also the people that use social media without algorithms are people that are in general not mindless scrollers. They actually noticed their asocial media feeds being filled with crap and chose a different platform where they control their feed themselves.  @codl I actually got pretty similar interaction on Twitter as here, but with way more followers. |
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