Gregory's Server
@codl I love your analogy 😊
The centralised ‘social media’ platforms are really *antisocial* – they are geared to make us crave ‘engagement’ so they can feed us more ads
If you’ve spent years in that kind of environment, the human scale of the fediverse can come as a bit of a culture shock
Sadly, some people who come here give up and go straight back into the torture chamber because it’s familiar to them
It took me three attempts to kick the Twitter habit, and though I do still miss the real friends I made there who haven’t left, I’m much happier for 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).