Post AojOSmnaFA45eY8Mts by justafrog@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AojBKu0yESjKJPJ2WW by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-12-05T06:56:25Z
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Person with over 1,000 followers: I don’t want to go to Bluesky but I don’t know if I’ll find enough people to engage with here.Dude, what do you want, meaningful conversations or a fan club?(I was as perfectly happy when I had a literal handful of people I was engaging with here eight years ago as I am now. Remember the Dunbar number, people. Remember quality over quantity. Small is beautiful and all that.)
(DIR) Post #AojC3xxiP0GvaPGtM0 by Tooden@aus.social
2024-12-05T07:04:33Z
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@aral It's da algos, man. They're missing da algos.I probably have 1/10th the followers here, and follow a similar number. Some I engage with daily, and others less often. I've done 2 clear-outs of people who have not engaged for more than 6 months.I like the quiet.
(DIR) Post #AojD89rwAuAvcw8E7s by Sh4d0w_H34rt@cyberpunk.lol
2024-12-05T07:16:27Z
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@aral it's the hold over from those other media sites. Back when I was on Twitter (pre-Musk buyout), you only started to get credibility and algorithmic reach at 1,000 followers, but in truth took closer to 10,000. When I came here, needing to have a large follower base just became meaningless.
(DIR) Post #AojDzLqYNAgM7gqgqW by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-12-05T07:26:06Z
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@aral yes, it’s so noticeable that none of the “big wigs” came here, or very few. Activists, journalists etc with large follower numbers. They use social media in a different way, not for dialogue but for dissemination, and I guess for that mastodon is not ideal. It really is best for dialogue and real connection, not as oart of your prrofessional or activist work. It certainly doesn’t work for for book promotions etc.
(DIR) Post #AojFhzDVSMBOvJQrxY by jcolomb@nerdculture.de
2024-12-05T07:45:20Z
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@aral good question indeed, some people are looking for a fan club.
(DIR) Post #AojICx8PRp0lLowSwK by jhoward@social.sdf.org
2024-12-05T08:13:19Z
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@aral Personally, I want tacos. Since neither platform provides that, I'll take the fun, interesting, weird, and sometimes meaningful conversation here.
(DIR) Post #AojLOGrOkSdHZp4cvg by piyuv@techhub.social
2024-12-05T08:48:56Z
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@aral most of those people don’t reply to replies which drives me furious. They don’t look for meaningful conversation, they just want to be heard. This happens with some progressive people too. Some of them I unfollow, some of them I (sadly) just stick with
(DIR) Post #AojOSmnaFA45eY8Mts by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-12-05T09:23:28Z
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@aral I don't have a big number of mutuals and I regularly don't have enough time to engage with them all as much as I'm sure they deserve.Always felt there's too much rather than too little to engage with, which is a very luxurious problem to have.
(DIR) Post #AojS0fAdPYOphdlGQS by koen_hufkens@mastodon.social
2024-12-05T10:03:15Z
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@aral I've started bridging, because a large part of academia is on Bluesky - and some of it might apply. But I never check in there, they will need to come here so to say. My terms, federated. If you double fist you aren't doing it right I would argue. Also, I might pull the plug on in at some point.
(DIR) Post #AojSsVHSOjEofQcqUS by mctwist@mastodon.acc.umu.se
2024-12-05T10:12:56Z
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@aral You guys have followers?
(DIR) Post #AojTiO0KhC1d9uM5vk by jwcph@helvede.net
2024-12-05T10:22:21Z
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@aral The thing is, we've let corporate social media conflate "communication" & "broadcasting" as if they're the same thing, which is also why TikTok is referred to as social media, even though it absolutely isn't. This has turned social presence (often including IRL!) into a personal branding exercise & a lot of people aren't even aware of it - all they have is confused, unrealistic & mostly undesirable expectations, foisted upon them by someone else entirely against their interests...
(DIR) Post #AojWYWpdJvX9VGLFy4 by gavin@fosstodon.org
2024-12-05T10:54:06Z
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@aral I am clearly in the lower percentile section of Dunbar's optimistic estimate of 150. 😅I like Mastodon because I don't get reminded by every third post that 'BiG pRoBLeM' happened at 'location' on planet Earth. I use other channels to get current affairs information - when I opt-in to searching for it.
(DIR) Post #AojXQoPSBObvenysTo by ploum@mamot.fr
2024-12-05T11:03:55Z
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@aral : people will come on Mastodon, have literally 10 times more interaction here than elsewhere then complain because "the number of followers on my profile is lower than the one I have on X even if 99% of those are bots and non-maintained account"
(DIR) Post #AojY2WfwZ903ezg3mK by scott@tams.tech
2024-12-05T11:10:47Z
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@aral Dunbar was full of shit. Neither mastodon nor bluesky are platforms which particularly encourage conversation, but bsky has more people and utilities to facilitate it than we do. Sharable custom feeds and quote posts are examples off the top of my head.It's also a centralized platform, and while that has it's disadvantages, it also solves the problem we have here where an instance gets blocked by everyone and the admins just create a new instance at a new domain. Bigoted trolls regularly engage in harassment of folks who's profile shows they fit in some marginalized category. Effective moderation of this is basically impossible and inherent to decentralized platforms. It's not something you or I might see as white men, but I've seen some shocking screenshots from trans and particularly black mastodon users.
(DIR) Post #AojhvNcAr28Z4b94i0 by detritus@todon.eu
2024-12-05T13:01:32Z
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@aral yes! More people need to think about the Dunbar number.
(DIR) Post #AojiKr6EMrOTl4LsHI by berkes@mastodon.nl
2024-12-05T13:06:08Z
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@aral If you are a journalist (or think you are one, etc.) it makes sense. One of the main purposes of a journalist is to make stories heard. The size of the audience matters.The potential amount of reach matters.
(DIR) Post #AojiO5LNrcLqnyynfE by yrochat@mathstodon.xyz
2024-12-05T13:06:42Z
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@aral This!
(DIR) Post #AojlI8FKSZMpvp05XU by fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe
2024-12-05T13:39:14Z
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@aral I think of it here as Slow Social (like slow food) and I'm here for it 1000% It's the independent coffee shop or record store, the farmer's market, of social media. I like fast food sometimes too, and circumstances sometimes mean I have to frequent Big Supermarket, but I find the locally grown, organic produce tastier and more nourishing over the longer term and I really enjoy cooking my own food and sharing it with people who share my tastes and values.
(DIR) Post #Aojm13oNnJCnD1ouKe by wendynather@infosec.exchange
2024-12-05T13:47:22Z
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@aral @briankrebs THIS. I’m not here to get followers, I’m here to make friends.
(DIR) Post #Aojm4QQABp14CR6168 by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-12-05T13:47:26Z
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@aral Optimal experience is likely following ~300 and followed by ~300.
(DIR) Post #AokFimySecBUOvjnfc by Sh41@androiddev.social
2024-12-05T19:20:09Z
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@aral I had over 1200 followers on twitter, and I still miss some of the people I used to take to in there... But I just couldn't stay there (and that was 2 years ago, it only went downhill)
(DIR) Post #AolNPxfNfb8cqsJ34q by claudius@darmstadt.social
2024-12-06T08:21:09Z
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@aral also if those people were actually influential, they could basically go wherever they pleased and people would follow (as in: sign up, not just as in: tolerate their posts where they already spend their time anyway)