Post AV7hUU77hUlR4jrASe by TruthSandwich@toad.social
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 (DIR) Post #AV7gaZpvElZIbh9URs by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-04-28T21:17:36Z
       
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       Of course, a fundamental (and largely unspoken) problem with social media postings is that you could probably "vanish" 95% of them unseen, and hardly anyone would care or even notice.
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7h9J5dUaPenu3wLw by qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
       2023-04-28T21:23:58Z
       
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       @lauren Not sure why this is a problem, exactly. I’d guess (at least) 95% of spoken words in the world vanish instantly, and no one notices. Why do we think our postings are deserving of immortality?
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7hUU77hUlR4jrASe by TruthSandwich@toad.social
       2023-04-28T21:27:51Z
       
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       @lauren I feel seen!
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7hc5f6UonzYWNSJk by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-04-28T21:29:15Z
       
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       @TruthSandwich That's because of the mirror you stare into all day.
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7iVyWOEPg3ctwvIW by vicuzumeri@cosocial.ca
       2023-04-28T21:39:16Z
       
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       @lauren That pretty much describes Mastodon’s algorithm in the Fediverse. Searches only find posts that are recent and that one’s follows or instance homies have posted or boosted. Huge amounts of traffic will never be seen except by a few … and that will be fairly random.But as long as the discussion proceeds briskly  around a lot of interesting topics, most of us won’t care.
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7lBCeOnutDEETy0O by TruthSandwich@toad.social
       2023-04-28T22:09:08Z
       
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       @lauren In my defense, if I were to stop, I would cease to exist.
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7vAbvaL01ksOsRxw by marsroverdriver@deepspace.social
       2023-04-29T00:00:55Z
       
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       @lauren I think this is also true of books, but it is not an argument against books.
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7vqKg6rTnZXYX7Vg by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-04-29T00:08:40Z
       
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       @marsroverdriver The difference on Mastodon is that it gives the impression of reach that doesn't actually exist, and in what seems like a relatively random manner.
       
 (DIR) Post #AV82pN84ximcX26YXg by marsroverdriver@deepspace.social
       2023-04-29T01:26:55Z
       
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       @lauren Many people might get the same impression from having their book published. :-)
       
 (DIR) Post #AV8NUEEwun5rv14s2S by ajbobo@twit.social
       2023-04-29T05:18:14Z
       
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       @lauren To judge from the amount of interaction I get on my posts (few and far between as they may be) this sounds completely accurate.Unless I'm parking pictures of my cat. She gets (and deserves) attention.