Post Aae6yhB0PHGFbKvmAy by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
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 (DIR) Post #Aae6yfHJSr7NiJrmjI by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T06:54:17Z
       
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       Just saw someone on Bluesky who made a joke about how hard it is to make an account or follow people on Mastodon, as if it's much better to have to play favorites to multiple algorithms to have your post seen
       
 (DIR) Post #Aae6yhB0PHGFbKvmAy by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T06:55:41Z
       
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       "Federation is bad because it's a bunch of small instances owned by private people who can block whole chunks of Mastodon without your input!" if I piss off the algorithm holders my posts will never be seen again
       
 (DIR) Post #Aae6yjCqrNvTtdoHKa by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T06:58:52Z
       
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       yea did you guys know I almost gave up on bluesky because my posts were getting no attention, not even when I went "fuck it" and posted pornthen I was told I was "posting wrong" and that I had to get myself added to algorithms. I did, and suddenly lo and behold my posts get 5-10 likes now
       
 (DIR) Post #Aae6yl8fftlptFry5o by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T06:59:27Z
       
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       I was also told I had to follow people and talk to everyone and reply to every post I've seen, because apparently it's all algorithms and fake engagement instead of making genuine connections
       
 (DIR) Post #Aae6yn5CRmBLv4GDxY by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T07:00:53Z
       
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       I've spent quite a lot of time on bluesky now and I can tell you with confidence that it is deadass just Twitter 2
       
 (DIR) Post #Aae6yp2RB1A1z4z2vo by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T07:06:01Z
       
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       I forgot to mention in the thread that getting yourself added to algorithms is only half the battle, you also have to use special hashtags to get yourself in, or it doesn't countand everyone is only looking at these algorithms (that are often controlled by one or a few people) so yea, you really don't stand a chance unless you're already extremely popular
       
 (DIR) Post #Aae6yqhwy9xfA7PiHA by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T07:09:31Z
       
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       what timing LMAO(I posted a smaller but similar thread to this on bluesky and I guess it made their system go 🤨 )
       
 (DIR) Post #Aae6ysftelVVGKT6Lw by roxy@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-10-10T07:21:58Z
       
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       another thing is like:even if you get yourself on one of these algorithms, the big one for furries, furrylist, has almost 20k people on it. You know people are just looking at the popular furries lmao, probably have some kind of "only show posts with so many likes on" enabled (because that's a thing too)