Post AQLFiVKC2pb4AphzrU by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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(DIR) Post #AQIzEliOYQ1qjluMEq by mrvapor@social.chaosmagick.com
2022-12-05T17:26:26Z
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Dear reporters, news people, etc.,The reason you're not getting any reach on Masto is because you rarely interact. You just come here, post your news article, and don't engage with the community.You will never get reach if you don't interact with people. This is not Twitter. This is not Facebook. If you want this platform to work for you, you have to become a part of the community, not just shout at us and leave. Forget everything you learned in the walled corporate digital gardens.
(DIR) Post #AQJshElhcgTGQq2iOG by bitterblossom@lolison.top
2022-12-06T05:09:45.576370Z
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@mrvapor stop trying to help them. let them strangle themselves with weeds in their own gardens. *real* reporters already know that human interaction is the basis for communicating whatever it is they're trying to communicate.
(DIR) Post #AQJu0ttZ2S6bRNez44 by gbhnews@mastodon.social
2022-12-05T18:08:31Z
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@mrvapor agree. Mastodon is not Twitter (thank goodness).
(DIR) Post #AQJu0ucwJkOxi6tDn6 by BeegyPsi@mastodon.online
2022-12-05T19:02:01Z
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@gbhnews @mrvapor Mastodon is literally a direct replacement/competitor to Twitter.Why would things be different here? And why on Earth do you need your news sources to "interact" with you before you take them seriously?There are 8 billion people on the planet, news sources have to be ready to interact with each and every person?
(DIR) Post #AQJu0vCOBwl3U3TX2u by saiv46@mastodon.ml
2022-12-06T05:24:29Z
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@BeegyPsi @gbhnews @mrvapor > Mastodon is literally a direct replacement/competitor to Twitter.Yeah, but community is different.> There are 8 billion people on the planet, news sources have to be ready to interact with each and every person?Do read your local newspaper? By reading only big news sources, you'll miss things happening in your neighborhood/district/city.By the way, there's already a solution for that - RSS! Just install any client and add a bunch of article sources. You couldn't interact with them, but you will still have ad-free non-tracking feed.More about RSS: https://ncase.me/rss/
(DIR) Post #AQJxZ9uSIsyUoh6WNk by gloqur@religion.masto.host
2022-12-06T05:52:27Z
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@mrvapor Okay, so Mastodon is supposed to be more like a friend group, and content is only deemed to be interesting if it comes from someone you know? But where do I go, then, when I just want to read interesting content, regardless of whether it comes from a person who acknowledges my existence? I'm honestly wondering. I've come to Mastodon because of Elon Musk, basically. I was still hoping to find interesting stuff, mostly from my academic field, AND…
(DIR) Post #AQJxZAR4Ld3wRqMZDU by gloqur@religion.masto.host
2022-12-06T05:54:15Z
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… for other people to find the things I'm posting from my own research interesting. So far, there's very little of both happening. Lower numbers, I know. But will that change if we refuse to acknowledge content from accounts that don't have tons of community credentials?
(DIR) Post #AQJxZAqwnPlLk6TEYK by ryan@rebased.io
2022-12-06T06:04:12.735609Z
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Hi Johanna. I used to pretend to be an academic in order to participate in the annual Islamic Studies conferences at McGill University for the fun conversation and free snacks. Mainly, I presented long and incoherent papers about the anthropologist Talal Asad, though in translation you would perhaps be more familiar with his father. Anyway, welcome
(DIR) Post #AQK3IVn8IG97U57lmC by MattHodges@mastodon.social
2022-12-05T18:09:51Z
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@mrvapor @jeffjarvis Yeah, I keep seeing folks who are used to having 50,000+ followers lament “but there’s no audience” and I think this is a proxy statement to the poor social behavior Twitter taught a lot of us. Honestly, people who just want low-effort reach should probably stick with Social Media and not pretend they care to be part of a Social Network.
(DIR) Post #AQK3IWFqZV7Av8YhX6 by CathieEnglish@mas.to
2022-12-05T18:16:07Z
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@MattHodges @mrvapor @jeffjarvis Exactly!
(DIR) Post #AQK3IWjcmmvyPUUTwm by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2022-12-05T18:43:08Z
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@CathieEnglish @jeffjarvis @mrvapor @MattHodges Question is, what’s the solution? I notice that when I respond to a post in a way that really calls for a reply back (e.g. I ask a question), the more followers someone has the less likely they are to respond. Perhaps fair enough but I think clients could use a feature that tags non-responsive accounts so we can avoid wasting time with them. (muting/blocking would be overkill)
(DIR) Post #AQK3IXBz5LcRpRl89Q by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2022-12-05T18:45:44Z
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@MattHodges @mrvapor @jeffjarvis @CathieEnglish IOW, I might still follow them & have interest in their announcements, but it’d be useful if their posts would have some kind of indication that replies are likely ignored.
(DIR) Post #AQK3IXddQXjlDChDFY by ginsterbusch@kosmos.social
2022-12-05T22:15:07Z
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@koherecoWatchdog @MattHodges @mrvapor @jeffjarvis @CathieEnglish They could just add that to their profile text, no? Or as a post or the introduction, pin it - et voila.Everything else? IDC. If you dont use tags, sparely use image descriptions and dont reply at all, what are you doing on an interactive platform?
(DIR) Post #AQK3IYWa8FgnxcP5tY by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2022-12-05T23:32:51Z
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@ginsterbusch @CathieEnglish @jeffjarvis @mrvapor @MattHodges The EU, for example, does not mention in their profile that they are a mirroring bot. So it’s on everyone else to figure that out before responding.
(DIR) Post #AQL69dHlYUh98ns1my by BeegyPsi@mastodon.online
2022-12-06T19:15:02Z
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@saiv46 @gbhnews @mrvapor Thanks for the RSS link, though I'm very familiar with RSS and even wrote my own client once in PHP. That said, it's a complete non sequitur, and misses the actual point of the conversation. People standing up and making bold claims about what Mastodon is and isn't, is the real issue. The platform is brand new. We'll defines it organically, and one loud ass telling people they don't belong here isn't going to define much.
(DIR) Post #AQLFiVKC2pb4AphzrU by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2022-12-06T21:02:24.323763Z
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If you’ve come here because of Elon .. look, a lot of us hate Elon for the right reasons (wanting to make a CCP style WeChat, brain chips, defense contractor, non-repairable cars that causes more pollution to make than normal cars, etc). What he’s doing with Twatter is actually good and will make it a better business and platform (still not going back, but I quit hipster style before it was cool).There is a ton of interesting content. People post links all the time. Stay on an instance that doesn’t ban everyone and you’ll find a lot of things to challenge your world view, independent blogs and random videos. But it is like a chat room. You wont’ get the most popular stuff, unless one posts just gets continually boosted all day because it’s that good.If you’re not the type of person who likes trying new stuff with zero expectations, you’re not going to have a fun time here.
(DIR) Post #AQLFuhcm8lf9nODVmi by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2022-12-06T21:04:36.550823Z
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Well if you want intelligent conversation, start by moving to an instance that doesn't block everyone with views they don't like. Oh wait, you can't even see this response because freeradical blocked me years ago.
(DIR) Post #AQLMLUGKWls3tisCzQ by koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone
2022-12-06T21:21:28Z
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@djsumdog @mrvapor @CathieEnglish @MattHodges @jeffjarvis You’re a developer, no? You could have fixed that. If the mastodon server were coded to make blocks transparent (the Lemmy “modlog” equivalent), users could review the admins manipulations & know when to bounce.
(DIR) Post #AQLMLUxvuekW4xH1xA by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2022-12-06T22:16:39.522277Z
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oh I guess I'm not blocked on freeradical. Interesting.and no, I'm not a Mastodon developer. I contributed a patch here or there, the most notable being the volume control for video playback, but nothing really big.There are some big projects in the work. There are at least two major forks of Pleroma out there (rebased and that one that starts with an A I can never remember) and P from FSE is working on Revolver. I've got some projects too but I'm not sure if any will be ready to release any time soon.