 The difference between a closed, algorithmically-curated silo like Twitter and the fediverse. Same post. Twitter: ~43K “followers”, 8 boosts, 58 likes Your thousands of “followers” on Twitter mean nothing because the algorithm (i.e., Twitter, Inc.) decides who gets to hear you. 5 comments
@aral Are you assuming that all your followers are the same? That none of them has a different personality? A different opinion? @attilakinali Not at all. But I am implying that following me is a sampling bias that’s stronger and more relevant than that of the generic sampling bias difference between Twitter and the fediverse’s general audience. @aral Look man. You write something that elicits a response from a specific type of people. You look at the reaction you get on different platforms from that one single post? Sample of one statistics? Not accounting for any biases at all? Really? |
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@aral Or it could be because on the fediverse there are more people who are critical of big tech companies than on twitter. Aka sampling bias.