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   vegos_f06 (vegos_f06@friendica.opensocial.space)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:29:38 JST vegos_f06

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   • Tor Lillqvist
   • Matti Järvinen
   @matt_jarvin @tml
   There are quite different approaches to use social Media. First, I look for news sources and built myself a kind of news ticker timeline. This works well after about 500 follows but there are still blind spots. I still miss US and Canadian First Nations and other indigenous news/people or activists from war zones who used Twitter. Occupy Wallstreet did not happen in the Fediverse too at those days. For personal contacts only, a hand full would do. So follows are more important for me than followers. Nevertheless I welcome the development that the Fediverse has undergone.
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     Matti Järvinen (matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:29:39 JST Matti Järvinen

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     • Tor Lillqvist

     @tml

     50 maybe. Then again, I follow 180* accounts and I don't interact with all of them. Some accounts just post things I'm interested in, and that's all.

     And advocate slogans tend to simplify things too much.

     *not all are active anymore

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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:29:41 JST Tor Lillqvist

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     • Matti Järvinen

     @matt_jarvin You have 265 followers. How many of them do you remember interacting with?

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     Matti Järvinen (matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:29:42 JST Matti Järvinen

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     • Tor Lillqvist

     @tml

     Just guessing but there is a difference between getting some visibility (and interaction) and getting followers and visibility just for the sake of internet fame or something.

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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:29:43 JST Tor Lillqvist

     Mastodon advocates: "Use alt texts, it makes your toots more popular and increases the number of boosts and thus your visibility!"

     Also Mastodon advocates: "Unlike the evil capitalist social media, Mastodon is about quality, not quantity, you don't need to desperately get followers".